Tom Dalzell

The Slang of Poker (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An equal-opportunity pastime, poker is played everywhere from country clubs to penitentiaries and has even developed into a spectator sport. In this entertaining gift book for poker fanatics and students of American vernacular, a cultural historian and slang authority offers a compendium of traditional poker slang, as well as the new vocabulary of online poker and jargon from high-stakes tournaments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486784649
• Artikelnr.: 40341595

Autorenporträt

An attorney by profession and a student of language by avocation, Tom Dalzell is the author of several books, including Dover's Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang and Damn the Man: Slang of the Oppressed in America. His Dover original title, Far Out Depends on Where You're Standing: A New Look at the 1950s, will be published early in 2013.