From ambulance chaser to soot suit, this is an up-to-date dictionary of 20th-century slang. It is a comprehensive and entertaining collection of over 5000 slang words and phrases, providing full details of origins and dates of first printed use.
From ambulance chaser to zoot suit, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of twentieth-century slang. Drawing on the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, and packed with illustrative quotations from John Lennon to Woody Allen, it is a comprehensive and entertaining collection of over 5,000 slang words and phrases. Providing full details of origins and dates of first printed use, the text contains expressions from around the;English-speaking world such as dork and cockamamie (America) and giggle-house and Jimmy Woodser (Australia).
INTRODUCTION; A-Z DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG
From ambulance chaser to zoot suit, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of twentieth-century slang. Drawing on the resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, and packed with illustrative quotations from John Lennon to Woody Allen, it is a comprehensive and entertaining collection of over 5,000 slang words and phrases. Providing full details of origins and dates of first printed use, the text contains expressions from around the;English-speaking world such as dork and cockamamie (America) and giggle-house and Jimmy Woodser (Australia).
INTRODUCTION; A-Z DICTIONARY OF MODERN SLANG