The American Slang Dictionary

The Chronicle of Higher Education: A New Dictionary of Modern and Archaic American Political Slang

insider.si.edu: New dictionary of American slang / edited by Robert L. Chapman

Rev. ed. of: Dictionary of American slang / compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. 2nd supplemented ed. 1975. siris_sil_295993 ...

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The Portland Mercury: Selections from My Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Continuing my Blogtown series, where I peruse my favorite book in the world, the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume I, A-G by J.E. Lighter. This week's slang is brought to ...

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...

Rev. ed. of: Dictionary of American slang / compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. 2nd supplemented ed. 1975. https://siris-libraries.si.edu ...

insider.si.edu: Juba to jive : the dictionary of African-American slang / edited and with an introduction by Clarence Major

Originally published as Dictionary of Afro-American slang by International Publisher's Co., Inc., 1970. "A Penguin original"--Label on cover. siris_sil_461707 ...

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Juba to jive : the dictionary of African-American slang / edited and with an introduction by Clarence Major

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Today's lingo seems creative, but slang in 19th century America was every bit as colorful. Phrases phase in and out of everyday usage. Especially in the global hodgepodge that is American English.

The Australian terms, ‘bogans’ and ‘petrolheads’, have made it into the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. ‘Petrolhead’, believed to have been coined in the 1980s as an adaptation ...