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Urban Dictonary: Fularious Street Slang Defined
by Aaron Peckham  Publisher Comments Urbandictionary.com is a wildly successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most...
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs
by Richard A. Spears Publisher Comments Learn the language of Nebraska . . .and 49 other states With more entries than any other reference of its kind,McGraw-Hills Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang Revised Edition
by John Ayto 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...
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How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads (Counterpunch)
by Daniel Cassidy Publisher Comments In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that US slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. "Jazz" and "poker," "sucker" and "scam" all derive from Irish. While demonstrating this, Daniel Cassidy...
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Do You Speak American?
by Robert Macneil Publisher Comments Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech? These and other questions catapulted Robert...
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Straight From the Fridge, Dad : a Dictionary of Hipster Slang (00 Edition)
by Max Decharne Publisher Comments Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies. Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actually dates back to before World War II,...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
by Christine Ammer Publisher Comments The cat will never get your tongue once you have The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms. This book defines nearly 10,000 idioms — expressions consisting of two or more words whose combined meaning is different from the literal meaning of...
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Do You Speak American?
by Robert Macneil Publisher Comments Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran — the...
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Red Herrings and White Elephants: The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day
by Albert Jack Publisher Comments Mad hatter . . . pie in the sky . . . egg on your face. We use these phrases every day, yet how many of us know what they really mean or where they came from? From bringing home the bacon to leaving no stone unturned, the English language is peppered...
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Dictionary of American Slang
by Robert L. Chapman Publisher Comments We all know language changes rapidly, but to follow along requires an historical view. Chapman's Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition, provides just what is needed to trace the language of today back to its American roots. And make no mistake...
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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...
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Slang: The Authratative Topic-By-Topic Dictionary of American Lingoes from All Walks of Life
by Paul Dickson Publisher Comments The first edition of Paul Dickson's Slang was selected by William Safire of The New York Times as one of the best language books of the year. Completely updated with more than twice as many entries, this latest volume truly encompasses the whole colorful...
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Vice Slang
by Tom Dalzell Synopsis Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol...
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British English A to Zed (Facts on File Writer's Library)
by Norman W. Schur Synopsis General readers and language lovers alike will have immediate access to an alphabetical listing of more than 5,500 "Briticisms" and their correlating "Americanisms" in this fully revised and updated volume. Featured in this new edition are several...
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The Oxford Book of Aphorisms
by John Gross Publisher Comments The dictionary defines "aphorism" as "a short pithy statement or maxim," but beneath this definition lies a wealth of wit and insight to which neither the word nor any brief description can do justice. This delightful anthology demonstrates just how...
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McGraw-Hill's Essential American Idioms (Essential)
by Richard A. Spears Publisher Comments Learning idioms is as easy as apple pie This concise, easy-to-use reference defines hundreds of contemporary American idiomatic expressions and shows how to use them in real-life situations. You will learn more than 2,100 idioms, each exemplified with...
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Penguin Dictionary of English Idioms 2ND Edition
by Daphne M Gulland Publisher Comments "Power nap," "the Oprah effect," "girl power"-these are just some of the recent figures of speech to have entered our language. This dictionary has been completely revised for its second edition and includes 2,000 new idioms. It provides clear and...
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
by Oxford Publisher Comments Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich...
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Street Talk: Da Official Guide to Hip-Hop & Urban Slanguage
by Randy Kearse Synopsis 700 pages with 10,000 entries, this unique dictionary simplifies the complex hip-hop slang vernacular....
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A New Dictionary of Eponyms (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by Morton S. Freeman Publisher Comments Do you approve of censoring the works of great writers? Some might contend that to bowdlerize a great writer's work would be to diminish its overall quality. Others, like Thomas Bowdler, whose eraser danced over every Shakespeare play, would argue that...
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