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Quote: Author: Tom Dalzell; Terry Victor

Year Published: 2007

Publisher: Routledge

Format: PDF 720 pages

ISBN: 0415212596 (0-415-21259-6)

ISBN 13: 9780415212595 (978-0-415-21259-5)

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The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume.With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, ...The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume.With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more.The Concise New Partridg eis a spectacular resource infused with humor and learning - it's rude, it's delightful and it's a prize for anyone with a love of language.With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, this work gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, and more.Praise for the two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English:'The king is dead. Long live the king! ... The old Partridge is not really dead; it remains the best record of British slang antedating 1945 ... Now, however, the preferred source for information about English slang of the past 60 years is the New Partridge.'- James Rettig, Book list, American Library Association' Most slang dictionaries are no better than mom-grams or a rub of the brush, put together by shmegegges looking to make some moo la.The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, on the other hand, is the wee babes.'- Ian Sansom, The Guardian' A great book.'- Susie Dent The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humor and learning " it's rude, it's delightful, and it's a prize for anyone with a love of language.List of contributors Preface Acknowledgments Observations of Slang and Unconventional English Entries A-Z Numeric Slang

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