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  title info:
    title: Slang!
    sub title: the topical dictionary of Americanisms
  name:
    name part: Dickson, Paul.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: globe
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Dictionary
  genre: dictionaries.
  genre: controlled vocabularies.
  genre: Controlled vocabularies.
  genre: Dictionaries.
  genre: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
  genre: Dictionnaires.
  genre: Vocabulaires contrôlés.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Walker & Co.
    date issued: 2006
    edition: 1st U.S. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 418 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: A categorically arranged dictionary of American slang and popular culture features more than ten thousand entries that cover such topics as the Internet, extreme sports, the drug culture, politics, and entertainment.
  table of contents: Introduction -- slang 101 : "it ain't no big thing" -- 1. Auctionese : what's your pleasure? -- 2. Automotive slang : how to speak car talk -- 3. Aviation and space : words from the wild blue yonder -- 4. Bureaucratese : the talk of the white-collar bailiwick -- 5. Business and finance : buzzwords for big shots -- 6. Computerese : what do you say to a chiphead? -- 7. Crime, punishment, and the law : words you don't hear on the outside -- 8. Cube-speak : the postdigital talk of the modern office, a.k.a. the Cube farm -- 9. Drugs : the spacy talk of the junkie, cokehead, druggie, pothead, and gen Rx-er -- 10. Fantasy, the future, science fiction, potterdom, and cyberpunk : coming to terms with parallel worlds -- 11. Food and drink : words and phrases from haute to not so hot -- 12. Gaming slang : coming to terms with the track, the table, the wheel, the slots, and the bingo jackpot -- 13. Hip-hop and like that : an earful of urban culturez -- 14. Java-speak : slang of the twenty-first-century coffeehouse -- 15. Media and publishing slang : words from those who fill the printed page, he airwaves, and, increasingly, cyberspace -- 16. Medical and emergency room slang : words you don't want to hear from your hospital bed -- 17. Mental states : cutting with a dull tool, too much cuckoo in the clock, and other fulldeckisms and marbles metaphors -- 18. Nautical slang : at sea with the language -- 19. Net-speak : an increasingly wireless Web of words -- 20. The great outdoors : in the wilderness, in the air, on (and under) water -- 21. Performing slang : from the mosh pit and the green room -- 22. Real estate : vocabulary to go with a CNTRY KIT, 3BR, 2BA, W/DD, ALRM, C/V, GRDN & RFDK, for $1,495,000 -- 23. The sultry slang of sex : R-rated terms you probably won't find in your junior dictionary -- 24. The slang of spin : ad-speak, PR, and BR -- 25. Sports slang : of balls, bats, clubs, rackets, and pucks -- 26. Teen and high school slang : a dialect of, like, many subcultures…
  note: Paul Dickson.
  note: Accession #: 2020_0001
  note: The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-383) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: English language
    geographic: United States
    topic: Slang
    genre: Dictionaries
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Dialects
    geographic: United States
    genre: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Slang
    genre: Dictionaries
  subject:
    topic: Americanisms
    genre: Dictionaries
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Languages
    genre: Dictionaries
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
  subject:
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Philology
  subject:
    topic: Vocabulary
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Anglais (Langue)
    topic: Dialectes
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Glossaires, vocabulaires, etc
  subject:
    topic: Langage et langues
  subject:
    topic: Philologie
  subject:
    topic: philology
  subject:
    topic: Americanisms
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Dialects
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Slang
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: PE2846 .D44 2006
  classification: 427.973
  classification: 2019 G-852
  classification: PE 2846 D554s 2006
  identifier: 9780802715319
  identifier: 0802715311
  record info:
    record content source: NLM
    record creation date: 061006
    record change date: 20220922204208.8
    record identifier: in00004595373
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng