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 ...

A confessed addict to collecting and identifying slang words, Dickson has written a new and updated dictionary of American slang. Support for LAist comes from. Become a sponsor.

DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG (669 pp.)—Compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner — Crowell ($7.50). Webster is a moldy fig. For all its scholarship, the supposedly unabridged ...

A debate has erupted between New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz, who says illin is a synonym of wack, as defined by the Dictionary of American Slang (see also: Run D.M.C.), and a ...

Slang, of course, has been with us for a long time. The first slang dictionary was published in 1535. But in five centuries, the themes of slang have scarcely altered.

This 1975 update of the original 1960 tome is unrivaled as a resource when we Flossers need to get up to speed on hobo slang, lunch vernacular, or auctioneer lingo. We thought we’d share the ...

While working on the dictionary, students studied texts such as "Idiom Savant -- Slang as It Is Slung, the Colorful Lingo of American Subcultures," "Flappers 2 Rappers: 20th Century American Youth ...

The educator named Ryan Price, who works as an English teacher at Buckingham Charter Magnet High School, posted three videos about the "Gen Z dictionary," which have gained 4.6 million views combined.

The slang appeal, which launched around the start of the school year, has so far yielded more than 745 submissions, including terms such as snatched and lowkey.The latter, which appears ...

Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will focus on ...