Slang is hot and slang is cool. Slang is nifty and slang is wicked. Slang is the bee's knees, the cat's whiskers and the cat's pajamas. Slang is far out, groovy and outa sight. Slang is fresh, fly, and phat.
Slang is bodacious, ducky, and fantabulous.
Slang is ace, awesome, bad, sweet, smooth, copacetic, the most, the max, and totally tubular. Those are 25 ways of saying that, if variety is the spice of life, slang is the spice of language. Wordaholics everywhere now have a rich new brew to slake their unremitting thirst for language fun. Paul Dickson, author of several shelves of books on all matters linguistic, has teamed with Merriam-Webster. After graduating from a posh private school on Philadelphia's Main Line and receiving a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, he headed west and for eight years worked for Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement.