Synopsis
An updated volume highlights an additional six hundred entries and explains the meanings and origins of such universally vague terms as "delicate condition," "rooster," "massage parlor," and "covert operation." 12,500 first printing.
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About the Author
Hugh Rawson is director of Penguin Reference Books at Penguin USA.
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s celebrated language book in a new edition updated with more than 600 new entries. "Rawson is no dry lexicographer but a brother-in-arms of Ambrose Bierce, Dr. Johnson, and H. L. Mencken, God rest their crusty souls."--Chicago Sun-Times.
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