The Slang Thesaurus. The Really Useful Reference Book on Slang

Jonathan Green

ISBN 10: 0241118514 / ISBN 13: 9780241118511

Published by Elm Tree Books, London England, 1986

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paperback First Edition. The Slang Thesaurus. Very slight browning to edges f pages through age. Here are all sorts, and then some, bags, barrels, heaps, loads, oodles, gobs, lashings, more than you can shake a stick at, pots, rafts, scads, tons and wads of words and phrases from throughout the English-speaking world, from Cockney rhyming slang and American street talk to Australian scatology: a reverse dictionary of slang. 280 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Slang Thesaurus. The Really Useful Reference Book on Slang
• Publisher: Elm Tree Books, London England
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241118514
• ISBN 13: 9780241118511
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: N/A
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic Education Learning Business

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Synopsis

Slang is the language through which we communicate on an everyday basis. Often more colorful and expressive than its formal counterpart, slang is stimulated largely by "sex, money and intoxicating liquor" and, more recently, drugs, and is ever changing and evolving. This lively introduction to the world of slang provides: