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War slang : American fighting words and phrases since the Civil War /

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Dickson, an authority on American slang, offers an updated edition of his collection of fighting words and wartime phrases that Americans have used from the Civil War to the Iraq War (with a brief overview of the Revolutionary War). Terms and brief definitions and explanations are arranged chronolog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickson, Paul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, [2004]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Soldiers > United States > Language > Dictionaries.
English language > United States > Slang > Dictionaries.
Military art and science > United States > Dictionaries.
United States > History, Military > Dictionaries.
Americanisms > Dictionaries.
Americanisms.
English language > Slang.
Military art and science.
Soldiers > Language.
United States.
Soldatensprache
Slang (taal)
Oorlog.
Verenigde Staten.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Reference works.
Dictionaries.
Military history.
Ouvrages de référence.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Fire Cakes
  • 1. Civil and Uncivil Words: War Slang Before the Great War: From the War Between the States Through the War with Spain
  • 2. World War I: Over there and Over the Top: Terms That Came Up from the Trenches, and Down from the Dogfight
  • 3. The Many Words of World War II: G.I.'s, Jeeps, Kilroy, and V-Signs from Two Theaters of War
  • 4. The Code of the Korean Conflict: A Few Words from World War 2 1/2
  • 5. Vietnam Vocab: Out of the Jungles of Southeast Asia
  • 6. A Gulf Glossary: Grains of "Sandspeak" from the War That Was on Every Channel
  • 7. Doomsday's Dictionary: Verbal Fallout from Nukes, the Cold War (1946-1991), and the Puzzle Palace
  • 8. Terms for a Time of Terror: New Words for the Post-9/11 World and the Iraq War.