CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SLANG, BY LEXICOGRAPHER RICHARD A. SPEARS, PH.D., CONTAINS MORE THAN 2,300 SLANG EXPRESSIONS USED IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH.

THE ENTRIES IN THIS HANDY GUIDE HAVE BEEN SELECTED WITH THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF NONNATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH IN MIND AND REPRESENT SOME OF THE MOST CURRENT GENERAL SLANG EXPRESSIONS USED IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY.

AMONG THE MANY FEATURES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SLANGARE THE FOLLOWING:

EACH ENTRY HAS AT LEAST TWO EXAMPLE SENTENCES ILLUSTRATING HOW SLANG EXPRESSIONS ARE USED IN NATURAL AMERICAN ENGLISH.

USAGE RESTRICTIONS AND CAUTIONS ARE INCLUDED WHERE NECESSARY.

A CROSS-REFERENCING SYSTEM MAKES ENTRIES EASY TO LOCATE, AND SHORTENED OR ABBREVIATED EXPRESSIONS ARE INCLUDED ALONGSIDE THE FULL FORMS.

THE MOST USEFUL AND UP-TO-DATE GUIDE OF ITS KIND, CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SLANG IS AN INVALUABLE REFERENCE FOR ALL STUDENTS OF ENGLISH WHO WANT TO KNOW THE MOST BASIC AND ESSENTIAL SLANG EXPRESSIONS USED IN AMERICAN ENGLISH TODAY.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: RICHARD A. SPEARS, PH.D., IS A REFERENCE EDITOR AND FORMER LINGUISTICS PROFESSOR WHO HAS WRITTEN MORE THAN 30 DICTIONARIES.

--FROM THE PUBLISHER