New dictionary of American slang
By: edited by Robert L. Chapman.
Contributors: Wentworth, Harold, 1904-
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
Subjects: English language -- United States -- Slang -- Dictionaries; English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; Americanisms -- Dictionaries
Description: In linguistics, where definitions at best are often imprecise, those of slang terms are notoriously hard to establish. Recorded slang emerged from the special languages of sub-cultures and never stops evolving. Since the publication of the classic Dictionary of American Slang, on which this new dictionary is partially based, many changes have taken place.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Dictionary of American slang / compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. 2nd supplemented ed. 1975.