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While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
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.
U.S. Navy slang, a glossary at Wiktionary; African American Vernacular English, a source of American slang words; The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched dictionary of American slang and the only American slang dictionary prepared entirely on historical principles
Californication is a portmanteau of California and fornication, appearing in Time on May 6, 1966 [1] and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. states of Idaho, [2] Washington, [3] Colorado, Oregon, Oklahoma, [4] [5] and Texas.
The Dictionary of American Slang is an English slang dictionary. The first edition was edited by Stuart Flexner and Harold Wentworth and published in 1960 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. [1] After Wentworth's death in 1965, [2] Flexner wrote a supplemented edition which was published in 1967. [3]
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
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Elon Musk and Grimes were required to change the name of their son because California prohibits numbers in names.