The Cassell Dictionary Of Slang

Jonathon Green's magisterial and much-praised dictionary provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to the slang of the English-speaking world from Elizabethan times to the present. Ranging from the jargon used by criminals in Victorian London to the drugs culture of the modern world, via swear words, rhyming slang and the colourful language of sex, the dictionary gives chapter and verse for tens of thousands of slang words and expressions.