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Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang by Oxford Publisher Comments Highly readable and lively, The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang is the ultimate guide to this perennially captivating subject. This new volume charts the 150-year history of rhyming slang from its origins in 19th century cockney rhyming slang to... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins by Linda Flavell Publisher Comments The English language contains a rich store of idioms that can be used in creative and forceful ways. This book examines over 400 such phrases, tracing each one's source and history through the chronological use of examples. While maintaining scholarly... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures by Luc Reid Publisher Comments Do You Know Your Subculture Slang? If your house hasn't been looted yet, it will be, so put everything you can in the bank and make mule characters carry the rest. She will act as his beard when his parents come over and at office parties. Surely a duck... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-By-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the 20th Century by Rosemarie Ostler Publisher Comments Ever encountered a blatherskite? How about a darb? When was the last time you got the straight skinny at a rap session or told someone to keep on truckin'? How many once-popular American words aren't you using these days? Quite a few, if you're like most... (read more) List Price $32.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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F-word (3RD 09 Edition) by Jesse Sheidlower Publisher Comments We all know what frak, popularized by television's cult hit Battlestar Galactica, really means. But what about feck? Or ferkin? Or foul--as in FUBAR, or "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition"? In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Big Book of Filth: 6500 Sex Slang Words and Phrases (Reference) by Jonathon Green Publisher Comments Visceral, raw, and utterly lewd and rude, these more than 6,500 off-color phrases provide a guided tour of sexual wordscapes. Categories include body parts (men's and women's); states of arousal and frustration; masturbation and orgasm; intercourse in a... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Expletive Deleted: Poda Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb Publisher Comments Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-downs and Curses From Around the World by Robert Vanderplank Publisher Comments Whether borne out of surprise, anger, passion or humour, curses and insults make up some of the most colourful and profound phrases in a language, offering insight into cultural mores and a greater understanding of the most fundamental social and... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture by Geoffrey Nunberg Publisher Comments This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America& #39; s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and phrases. From our metaphors for the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Twentieth Century Words by John Ayto Publisher Comments In Twentieth Century Words, lexicographer John Ayto takes us on an exhilarating tour of our century, charting it decade by decade by way of the words we've coined to mark our passage through time. Ayto looks at some 5,000 words and meanings, from... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined by Aaron Peckham Publisher Comments Compiled from the wildly popular Web site urbandictionary.com, "Mo Urban Dictionary" includes more than 2,000 of the latest contemporary slang entries. Each alphabetized entry includes a word, a definition, and a sample sentence. Pop-ups throughout the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Decharne Publisher Comments Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actually dates back before World War II, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex, and drinking. Why talk when you can beat... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Oxford Publisher Comments Slang is language with its sleeves rolled up, colorful, pointed, brash, bristling with humor and sometimes with hostility. From "forty-rod whiskey" and "five-finger discount" to "bum rap," "buzz off," and "fly by night," slang words add zest to everyday... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing) by Jan R Van Meter Publisher Comments “By necessity, by proclivity, by delight,” Ralph Waldo Emerson said in 1876, “we all quote.” But often the phrases that fall most readily from our collective lips—like “fire when ready,” “speak... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Butt Rot and Bottom Gas: A Glossary of Tragically Misunderstood Words by Eric Groves Publisher Comments butt rot /b@t rät/ n. a fungal disease affecting the butt, or base, of a tree bot•tom gas /bä2-t@m gas/ n. a type of breathing gas carried in portable tanks and inhaled by under-water divers The English language is full of words... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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It's Not Rocket Science: And Other Irritating Modern Cliches by Clive Whichelow Publisher Comments In the last 30 years new technology, fashion, and social set-ups have spawned new clichés galore. Everything on the Internet is available at the "click of a mouse," TV hosts ask the audience to "give it up" when they want them to applaud,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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American Slang Dictionary: The Ultimate Reference to Nonstandard Usage, Colloquialisms, Popular Jargon, and Vulgarisms by Richard A Spears Publisher Comments For the 411 on American slang, this guidebook is the top banana From "head trip" to "foot in mouth," American Slang Dictionary gives you the complete definitions of thousands of uniquely American words and phrases, ranging from golden oldies such as... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary by Rick Ayers Publisher Comments "Cheese" isn't only a dairy product, it's also a smile; when you "schmab," you're burning rubber; and when you're "ghost," you're gone. These are just a couple of the coined phrases clever enough to earn their creators... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases by Oxford Publisher Comments Have you ever considered how a single line from a movie or a television advertisement spreads to become a ubiquitously popular expression? Do you know the origin of such phrases as "keeping up with the Joneses" and "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Shorter Slang Dictionary by Eric Partridge Publisher Comments Long before Orwell mourned the corruption of the English language, his mother tongue was fast becoming a motley one, absorbing new colloquialisms by the minute. The "Shorter Slang Dictionary," the latest compilation of English slang from freelance... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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