The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

This blockbuster, immaculately typeset in two‐column format, is the revised edition of Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge (1894‐1979) in its eighth edition of 1984 edited by Paul Beale. Its editor, Tom Dazell of Berkeley, CA, is the author or senior editor of six previous books on slang, including (with Terry Victor) The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Dazell and Victor, 2006). Especially relevant to the work reviewed are two books by Tom Dazell and Terry Victor: Sex Slang (Dazell and Victor, 2008a) and Vice Slang (Dazell and Victor,...