1 option
Dictionary of American slang / [compiled and] edited by Robert L. Chapman.
LIBRA PE2846 .C46 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chapman, Robert L., 1920-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--United States--Slang--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- United States.
- Slang.
- Americanisms--Dictionaries.
- Americanisms.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 617 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [1997?]
- Summary:
- Like everything else in the modern world, slang changes rapidly. In its first revision since 1986, this third edition dictionary, with more than 2,000 new entries, provides complete coverage to keep readers in the know on cutting-edge language, especially that pertaining to technology, business, and the media.
- Notes:
- "This work is based on the Dictionary of American slang by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 006270107X
- OCLC:
- 36501213
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.