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Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
by Tony Thorne
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Pantheon (1991-11-12)
ISBN: 0679737065
EAN: 9780679737063
Dewy Decimal #: 427.09
Paperback: 583 pages
Edition: 1st American ed
Release Date: 1991-11-12
SKU: V099SVJ
Condition: Used: Good
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Product Description
From A to Z:
Aim archie at the armitage brownie hound cassava dingleberries el ropo four-by-two get Chinese have the painters in idiot dancing jam sandwich kangaroo it lip service meathooks necktie party Ozzie and Harriet pearl diver quiche out rough end of the pineapple surfboard tray-bits under velcrohead write one's name on the lawn x-rated yodel in the canyon zippersniffer.
There is a linguistic riot going on the English-speaking world over, in the form of energetic, informal speech, extraordinary for its wit, quirkiness, and biting satire. The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, the most comprehensive guide to slang, gathers more than 5,000 colloquialisms, puns, similes, metaphors, and double entendres -- from sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll; to fads, fashion, and cults; to taboos, obscenities, and euphemisms -- that have enriched our language for the past forty years. Most entries have multiple definitions that are enlivened by examples of usage.
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good browsing, good reference
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-04-10
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is makes for good browsing OR handy reference. You can discover the meaning of an unfamiliar word or the origin of a word you know. For that matter, you can find new terms with which to jazz up your own sentences. It's particularly interesting for us Americans to learn about British slang along with our own. Did you know a "bath-dodger" is, in British-speak, "an unwashed or habitually dirty individual"? Some of these are worth adopting! It's easy on the eyes and easy to find what you want (plenty of white space, and main entries in bold type). Definitions are written in clear ordinary language, and examples are given where useful. There's everything from the graphically sexual to the criminal to the eminently printable like "mugwump" and "penguin suit". There are ones you never heard of and there are vocabulary staples ("cool", "OK"). This was published in 1990, so anything newer won't be here, but that's not saying much.
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