Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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NTC’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions third edition Richard A. Spears, Ph.D. ...

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Contents About This Dictionary v Terms and Symbols xi Pronunciation Guide xiv Dictionary 1 Phrase-Finder Index 485 McGraw-Hill's ...

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v About This Dictionary The third edition of this dictionary contains more than 800 new expres- sions. These comprise the expres ...

enough, they may become so well known that they become standard English unavoidably. Most such slangy expressions simply join an ...

innocents who encounter these words on television, in the theater, in novels, in newspapers, in the workplace, in shops, and on ...

trate meaning, not to prove the earliest date of print or broadcast dissemination. Guide to the Use of the Dictionary Entries a ...

in italics. The function codes provide a way of determining the grammatical or syntactic function of a particular expression a ...

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xi Terms and Sy mbols
marks the beginning of an example. Tmarks the beginning of an example in which two elements of the phrase ...

eye-dialecta type of respelling of a word so that it appears to have been spoken with a regional accent, as with sezfor says. fo ...

play onreferring to wordplay that is based on a particular expression. For instance, eagle freakis a play on eco freak. policefr ...

xiv Pronunciation Guide Some expressions in the dictionary are followed by a phonetic tran- scription in International Phonetic ...

[a] stop
top [A] sat
track [au] cow
now [aI] bite
my [b] beet
bubble [d] dead
body [D] that
those [dZ] jail
judge [e] da ...

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10-4Go to ten-four. 20/20 hindsightGo to twenty-twenty hindsight. 24-7Go to twenty-four, seven. 404 Go to four-oh-four. 411 Go t ...

A-1 and A number 1mod. of the highest rating.
This steak is really A-1!
I would like to get an A number 1 secretary for a chan ...

How can anybody be so aced on three beers?
I’ve never seen anybody that aced in my life. ace in the holen. something important ...