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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.
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 -- 27. University and college slang : A-OK, but not always PC -- 28. War slang : terms for a time of terror -- 29. Washington-speak : inside the beltway : the lingo of the hill, K street lobbyists, the slug line, and other denizens of the capitol city -- 30. X-ers, yuppies, soccer moms, and other moderns : a field guide to the socio-tagged.
The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-383) and index.