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Containing more than 5000 terms and 15,000 definitions, this book provides a guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics, such as sex and bodily functions. There are expressions from Britain, Australia, America, the Caribbean and other English-speaking countries. Revised and expanded, the book concentrates on the slang of the last 30 years, illustrating today's cultural and social preoccupations. Tony Thorne is the author of "The Dictionary of Popular Culture" and "Countess Dracula".
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"Thorne is a kind of slang detective, going down the streets where other lexicographers fear to tread." Daily Telegraph "As up-to-date a dictionary of 'strikingly informal' contemporary language as you are likely to find." www.mantex.co.uk/reviews
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Currently Director of the English Language Centre at King's College, London, Tony Thorne is an authority on language and culture, on which he has written and broadcast widely.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 074752856X
- ISBN 13 9780747528562
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages592
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