AMERICAN SLANG DICT 4E

For the 411 on American slang this guidebook is the top bananaFrom head trip to foot in mouth American Slang Dictionary gives you the complete definitions of thousands of uniquely American words and phrases ranging from golden oldies such as catch some rays and take the fifth to more up-to-the-minute coinages like Wall Street''s jonx the Internet''s ping and the gangsta''s favorite shizzle.Inside you''ll find more than 12000 words and expressions from a wide variety of sources including gangsta rap the blogosphere and the U.S. prison system. In a New York minute you''ll be down with the colloquialisms vulgarities and substandard English that make everyday interactions in contemporary American life so colorful.BSOD or blue screen of death the blue computer screen that appears after a programming or operational errorcrunk wild; crazy; out of controlkvetch to complainleft-handed monkey wrench a nonexistent toolword of mouse a message spread by e-mail