Presents 1,700 entries, including colorful words and phrases from television and movies, as well as the streets and campuses. Each entry in this dictionary has two examples.

The revised and updated third edition of this comprehensive slang dictionary has more than 800 new expressions. Realistic example sentences--provided for each sense of every entry--show how expressions are used in current, everyday American English. Pronunciations and cautionary notes are provided as needed, and a Phrase-Finder Index helps users locate entries quickly.

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Slang words, slang terms and phrases of the American language.

Derived primarily from NTC's Pocket Dictionary of Words and Phrases, this is a miniature-sized monolingual dictionary designed for learners seeking to improve their understanding of the English language. It provides 16,000 senses of over 7500 of the most common and basic words used in English. This small dictionary should help readers with spelling, pronunciation, parts of speech, meaning, and irregular forms. It defines words using the smallest possible vocabulary. In many cases, more than one definition is given, so the learner has additional help in figuring out the meaning of a word.