The Thesaurus of Slang
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ISBN: 0816028982 / Publisher: Facts on File, August 1997
Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions
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Subtitled More than 165,000 Uncensored Contemporary Slang Terms, Common Idioms, and Colloquialisms, Updated for the 1990s and Arranged for Quick and Easy Reference. The first edition (1988 cited in Walford and Sheehy Suppl. ) was made up of 12,000 standard English words listed alphabetically and each followed by one or more of 150,000 slang words or phrases. This substantially revised and expanded edition adds some 15,000 new idioms, catchwords, and expressions yielding, e.g., 98 new slang words for marijuana , 52 for drunk , and 85 for stupid . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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