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A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
Slang used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z; generally those born between the late 1990s and late 2000s in the Western world) differs from slang of earlier generations; [1] [2] ease of communication via Internet social media has facilitated its rapid proliferation, creating "an unprecedented variety of linguistic variation". [2] [3] [4]
Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.
Jonathon Green, in his 1999 book The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, defines slang as "A counter language, the language of the rebel, the outlaw, the despised and the marginal". [6] Recognising that there are many definitions, he goes on to say, "Among the many descriptions of slang, one thing is common, it is a long way from mainstream English".
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
Partridge published seven editions of his "hugely influential" [6] slang dictionary before his death in 1979. [7] The dictionary was "regarded as filling a lexicographical gap" [8] in the English language because it contained entries on words that had long been omitted from other works, such as the Oxford English Dictionary.
Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).