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New dictionary of American slang / edited by Robert L. Chapman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper & Row, 1986Description: xxxvi, 485 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0061811572 :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 427/.973 19
LOC classification:
  • PE2846 .C46 1986
Contents:
Preface. -- Preface to the Dictionary of American slang by Stuart Berg Flexner. -- 1 Acknowledgements. -- 2 Guide to the dictionary. -- 3 New dictionary of American slang
Summary: 'The New Dictionary of American Slang records it all. Here are terms not found in most other dictionaries. Slang words and phrases are defined. Dating labels, pronunciation where needed, and word and phrase origins are included along with thousands of usage examples taken from published sources. It's the only book of its kind.'
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Rev. ed. of: Dictionary of American slang / compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. 2nd supplemented ed. 1975.

Preface. -- Preface to the Dictionary of American slang by Stuart Berg Flexner. -- 1 Acknowledgements. -- 2 Guide to the dictionary. -- 3 New dictionary of American slang

'The New Dictionary of American Slang records it all. Here are terms not found in most other dictionaries. Slang words and phrases are defined. Dating labels, pronunciation where needed, and word and phrase origins are included along with thousands of usage examples taken from published sources. It's the only book of its kind.'

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