Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (4th edition)

Today’s “youth speak” is tomorrow’s “granny slang”, so many parents struggling to translate the Internet code of teenage children might often wish they had a dictionary to hand! Since publication of the first edition in 1990, Tony Thorne has been ear-wigging on everyday conversations and recording new slang terms for the instruction and entertainment of baffled parents and general readers alike. The updated version of the dictionary contains more than 7,000 witty definitions, including over a thousand new entries since 2009. Inspired by Johnson’s eighteenth century Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Thorne’s focus is on words and phrases...