What's a "blurker"? Or a "pavement princess"? Or a "plokta"? What does "peeps" mean? Writer Paul Dickson knows. A confessed addict to collecting and identifying slang words, Dickson has written a new ...

Add “belligerent” and “literati” in an op-ed and stir. “Belligerati!” This recent addition to America’s political lingo -- and hundreds of other coinages -- are compiled in Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: ...

Holed up in his London flat, Jonathon Green has been toiling among his antique books for years, trying to bring a great work to the masses. That work includes 1,740 terms for sexual intercourse ...

When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the academic community “virtually ignored” slang as a part of linguistics.

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...

With so many ways to connect in our communication-obsessed world, the casual kickiness of slang creeps into daily life via many avenues. Laid-back lingo fills text messages, blog posts, Tweets and ...

Today's lingo seems creative, but slang in 19th century America was every bit as colorful. Phrases phase in and out of everyday usage. Especially in the global hodgepodge that is American English.

• The Australian terms, ‘bogans’ and ‘petrolheads’, have made it into the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. ‘Petrolhead’, believed to have been coined in the 1980s as an adaptation ...

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