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With more than 7-000 definitions- this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs- sport and contemporary society- as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions. In this fully updated fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contemporary Slang- language and culture expert Tony Thorne explores the ever-changing underworld of the English language- bringing back intriguing examples of eccentricity and irreverence from the linguistic front-line. Thorne is a kind of slang detective- going down the streets where other lexicographers fear to tread. Daily Telegraph...