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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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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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- PublisherRandom House Value Publications
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0517702010
- ISBN 13 9780517702017
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages473
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