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An authoritative aid to demystification, this dictionary enables the reader to unravel the jargon of our age - the welter of specialist occupational slang ranging from deliberately deceptive euphemisms for unpalatable practices to genuine "professional" terminology. Containing around 21,000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a wide range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and American jargon.

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9780415732758 | Reprint edition (Routledge, August 15, 2013), cover price $300.00
9780710099198 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, December 1, 1987, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: An authoritative aid to demystification, this dictionary enables the reader to unravel the jargon of our age - the welter of specialist occupational slang ranging from deliberately deceptive euphemisms for unpalatable practices to genuine "professional" terminology.

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9780415732765 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 7, 2015), cover price $67.95

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George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald the year 1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries – selected from the slangs and specific vocabularies of trades, professions and interests – covering such areas as the world of entertainment, the media, the military economics, and finance. This dictionary provides an accurate and useful linguistic guide for students of lexicography and an interesting compendium for the general inquisitive reader.

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9780415732710 | Routledge, August 15, 2013, cover price $155.00
9780710096852 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, February 1, 1984, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance.

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9780415732734 | Routledge, April 7, 2015, cover price $48.95

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9780099587385 | Vintage Uk, May 20, 2013, cover price $18.60

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9781847946287 | Random House Uk Ltd, October 1, 2011, cover price $24.95

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9780099549994 | Random House Uk Ltd, December 24, 2014, cover price $14.95

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9780550104403 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 14, 2011, cover price $625.00

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Product Description: A first U.S. release of a scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of 21st-century terms, lists explanations of word origins and features a reorganized format for easier use. Original.

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9780550105639 | Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd, July 30, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A first U.

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Product Description: 955 vaginas - 851 penises - 797 acts of self-abuse 743 acts of intercourse - 239 oral sex acts 444 breasts (that's 222 pairs) - 65 prophylactics - 15 scrota SMUT is a guide to the coarsest, the most lubricious, the downest and distinctly dirtiest of the wonderful counter-language that is slang...read more
By Jonathon Green (editor)

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9780550105240 | Ill edition (Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd, May 22, 2009), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: 955 vaginas - 851 penises - 797 acts of self-abuse 743 acts of intercourse - 239 oral sex acts 444 breasts (that's 222 pairs) - 65 prophylactics - 15 scrota SMUT is a guide to the coarsest, the most lubricious, the downest and distinctly dirtiest of the wonderful counter-language that is slang.

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Product Description: Have some good "dirty" fun with more than 6,500 off-color phrases, all vividly, explicitly defined. Categories include body sites; arousal and frustration; masturbation; orgasm; intercourse in a dazzling variety of positions; oral, kinky, gay, bi, and safe sex; and many other aspects of sex...read more
By Jonathon Green (introduced by) and Kipper Williams (illustrator)

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9780304368242 | Cassell, March 30, 2006, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Have some good "dirty" fun with more than 6,500 off-color phrases, all vividly, explicitly defined.

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9780304363872 | Cassell, June 1, 2003, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Visceral, raw, and utterly lewd and rude, these more than 6,500 off-color phrases provide a guided tour of sexual wordscapes.

By Jonathon Green (introduced by) and Dan Pearce (illustrator)

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9780304368228 | Cassell, March 30, 2006, cover price $3.98

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9780304368259 | Cassell, February 28, 2006, cover price $3.98
9780304355143 | Cassell, March 1, 2001, cover price $9.95

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A dictionary of English slang.

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9780304366361 | 2 edition (Cassell, February 13, 2006), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A dictionary of English slang.

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9780304351671 | Cassell, August 1, 2000, cover price $19.95

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Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct.

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9781856266376 | Gardners Books, August 25, 2005, cover price $17.60 | About this edition: Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct.

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A complete reference detailing the history and current status of censorship around the globe and throughout all periods of history, beginning with the creation of the office of the censor in Ancient Rome.

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9780816044641, titled "Encyclopedia Of Censorship" | 2 revised edition (Facts on File, April 1, 2005), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: A complete reference detailing the history and current status of censorship around the globe and throughout all periods of history, beginning with the creation of the office of the censor in Ancient Rome.
9780816015948 | Facts on File, January 1, 1990, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A complete reference detailing the history and current status of censorship around the globe and throughout all periods of history, beginning with the creation of the office of the censor in Ancient Rome

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By Jonathon Green (introduced by) and Dan Pearce (illustrator)

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9780304366064 | Cassell, September 1, 2004, cover price $7.95

The latest in Cassell's best-selling series of recreational slang titles derived from Jonathon Green's unique database of English slang: a richly humorous collection of 5000 English slang phrases.

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9780304364749 | Orion Pub Co, September 11, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The latest in Cassell's best-selling series of recreational slang titles derived from Jonathon Green's unique database of English slang: a richly humorous collection of 5000 English slang phrases.

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Product Description: Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct. This history of English slang documents our verbal predilections for the racier side of life, at the expense of the more quotidian, let alone respectable - it is no coincidence that the longest chapters in thiis book concern parts of the body, sex and drink and drunkenness...read more

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9781856264792 | Kyle Cathie Ltd, May 1, 2003, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct.
9781856261609 | Reprint edition (Trafalgar Square, February 1, 1995), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: With more than 7,000 zingers, the right crushing retort is always at hand! No more thinking of an apt reply after it's too late: just store up a collection of choice rejoinders from over 1,000 ways to call somebody a fool and 600 ways to say someone's acting stupid...read more
By Jonathon Green (introduced by) and Dan Pearce (illustrator)

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9780304363681 | Cassell, March 1, 2003, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: With more than 7,000 zingers, the right crushing retort is always at hand!

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