Super-Mini American Slang Dictionary
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McGraw-Hill's Super-Mini American Slang Dictionary (Second Edition 2007)
Format: Pdf | 254 pages | 1.1 MB
-- This dictionary is a resource cataloging the meaning and usage of frequently occurring slang and colloquial expressions in the U.S.A.
-- It contains expressions that are familiar to many Americans and other expressions that are used primarily within small groups of people.
-- These expressions come from movies, novels, newspaper stories, and everyday conversation.
-- The entries represent the vocabulary found in many places, such as the college campus and urban streets.
-- We hear slang from surfers, weight lifters, and young people in general.
-- Nonetheless, expressions that can be called slang make up a major part of American communication in movies, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and informal spoken conversation.
There is no standard test that will decide what is slang and what is not. Expressions that are identified as slang are sometimes little more than entertaining wordplay, and much slang is little more than an entertaining, alternative way of saying something. Slang is rarely the first choice
of careful writers or speakers or anyone attempting to use language for formal, persuasive, or business purposes.
Young people are responsible for a high proportion of the fad expressions and collegiate wordplay found here. It is no surprise that there are a large number of clever expressions for sex, drinking, and vomiting from this source. Other matters of social taboo have provided many slang expressions as well. Although, strictly speaking, taboo words are not slang, the major taboo words have been included in this dictionary.
Many of us enjoy “presenting” a new slang term to a listener by slipping it into conversation. As listeners, many of us enjoy hearing a new slang term and figuring out what it means, using con****, setting, and our own brain power. This element of social wordplay is primarily what
attracts word-wise people to slang and what makes a dictionary of this type interesting reading as well as a useful reference work.
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