| American Slang Dictionary, Fourth Edition Contributor(s): Spears, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0071461086 ISBN-13: 9780071461085 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: 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 "catch some rays" and "take the fifth" to more up-to-the-minute coinages like Wall Street's "jonx," the Internet's "ping," and the gangsta's favorite, "shizzle." Inside you'll find more than 12,000 words and expressions from a wide variety of sources, including gangsta rap, the blogosphere, and the U.S. prison system. In a New York minute, you'll be down with the colloquialisms, vulgarities, and substandard English that make everyday interactions in contemporary American life so colorful. BSOD or blue screen of death the blue computer screen that appears after a programming or operational error |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Dictionaries |
| Dewey: 427.973 |
| LCCN: 2007061181 |
| Series: American Slang Dictionary: The Ultimate Reference to |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.04" W x 9" (1.49 lbs) 576 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 catch some rays and take the fifth to more up-to-the-minute coinages like Wall Street's jonx, the Internet's ping, and the gangsta's favorite, shizzle. Inside you'll find more than 12,000 words and expressions from a wide variety of sources, including gangsta rap, the blogosphere, and the U.S. prison system. In a New York minute, you'll be down with the colloquialisms, vulgarities, and substandard English that make everyday interactions in contemporary American life so colorful. BSOD or blue screen of death the blue computer screen that appears after a programming or operational error |
Contributor Bio(s): Spears, Richard A.: - Richard A. Spears, Ph.D., is a former reference editor and linguistics professor at Northwestern University. He has written more than 150 dictionaries. Spears, Richard: -Richard A. Spears, Ph.D., is a former reference editor and linguistics professor at Northwestern University. He has written more than 150 dictionaries. |