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Uniform Title Stone the crows
Title Oxford dictionary of modern slang / John Ayto, John Simpson [editors]
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2008]
©2008
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 408 pages)
Summary "Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, Stone the Crows features over 6,000 slang words and expressions, from the British beer goggles, through the American cockamamie, to the Australian gigglehouse. This collection contains old favourites as well as the very latest slang terms. In addition to the A-Z entries, the book contains a comprehensive thematic index, details of origins, dates of first printed use, and thousands of illustrative quotations from famous names including John Lennon and Woody Allen."--Jacket
Notes Revision of: Oxford dictionary of modern slang. 1992
Title from Web page (viewed May 18, 2011)
Subject English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Ayto, John.
Ayto, John. Oxford dictionary of modern slang
Simpson, J. A., 1953-
ISBN 9780191727719