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American Slang; A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG. By Maurice H. Wessen. 543 pp. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. $2.50.

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New dictionary of American slang / edited by Robert L. Chapman

Rev. ed. of: Dictionary of American slang / compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. 2nd supplemented ed. 1975. siris_sil_295993 ...

A Scottish Account Is Hilariously Translating American Slang For Tourists

Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army ...
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American Slang, Adapted and Updated

What's a "blurker"? Or a "pavement princess"? Or a "plokta"? What does "peeps" mean? Writer Paul Dickson knows. A confessed addict to collecting and identifying slang words, Dickson has written a new ...
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The Definitive Slang Dictionary

Back in 1937, when Eric Partridge’s groundbreaking “Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English” was first published, The New York Times Book Review ran a glowing notice. “The lost words of the ...
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Is the internet changing how we talk about slang words?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the ...