Dictionary of Contemporary SlangA&C Black, 27. feb. 2014 - 512 strani With more than 7,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive 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. In this fully updated fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, language and culture expert Tony Thorne explores the ever-changing underworld of the English language, bringing back intriguing examples of eccentricity and irreverence from the linguistic front-line. "Thorne is a kind of slang detective, going down the streets where other lexicographers fear to tread." Daily Telegraph |
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19th century abbreviation adolescents adopted adults all-purpose alternative spelling and/or archaic argot Australian b3ta back-formation beatniks black speech black street Britain and Australia British drunk campus cannabis chav colloquial common denote dialect drug early English especially euphemism exclamation British expression fashionable film fuck girl heard hip hop hippy homosexual humorous imitation inspired item of black item of student jargon jocular late magazine male homosexual marihuana meaning middle-class n American n British notion one’s Oz magazine particularly pejorative penis person phrase pl British police popular popularised prison probably originated refer rhyming slang schoolchildren Scottish Lowlands sense the word sexual shit shortening slang term Sloane Rangers someone someone’s speech street slang student slang synonym teenagers tion TV comedy TV series typically underworld unpleasant usage users usually variant form vb American vb Australian vb British verb Viz comic vogue term vulgarism widespread Yiddish younger speakers youth slang