With more than 15,000 definitions, this is a guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions. I...
Our longstanding love affair with the undignified bits of our language - the unguarded vocabulary of conversation, the quirky slang of in-groups, the colourful outbursts of lexis in extremis - has ass...
From ambulance chaser to zoot suit, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of twentieth-century slang. Drawing on the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, and packed with illu...
This 'thesaurus of slang' contains more than 9,000 expressions. Entries are illustrated by at least two English sentences each and are organized by topic,which makes finding the right expression quick...
This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference defines and explains thousands of contemporary American slang and informal expressions -- terms and phrases often encountered in movies, on television, in the...
The only historical dictionary of slang -- spanning three hundred years of slang use in America.'A landmark publication, at one stroke sweeping its predecessors into the shade . . . It is one of those...
More bling for the buck! The #1 guide to American slang is now bigger, more up-to-date, and easier to use This new edition of McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions offe...
The two political classics in this book are the produce of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221 BC) they anticipate Niccolo Machiavelli's...