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Sex Slang

By Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor

Are you a beaver cleaver or the office bike? Would you rather pack fudge or munch carpet? Do you content yourself with paddling the pickle...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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Vice Slang

By Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor

Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger?...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Edited by Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor

The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a...

Published October 19th 2007 by Routledge.

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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Edited by Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source 2006

The successor to The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English – Eric Partridge’s magnum opus – this all-new work retains...

Published December 1st 2005 by Routledge.

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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

By Eric Partridge Edited by Paul Beale

The definitive work on slang and unconventional English, this edition is fully revised and updated by Paul Beale and includes some 500 new entries. The...

Published October 3rd 2002 by Routledge.

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Shorter Slang Dictionary

By Paul Beale, Eric PartridgeRosalind Fergusson Edited by Rosalind Fergusson

From abdabs to zit
From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century)
From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA)

This new...

Published December 2nd 1993 by Routledge.

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A Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Edited by Paul Beale

Based on Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, of which the Sunday Times wrote `Even a casual perusal of the pages is extraordinarily...

Published April 25th 1991 by Routledge.

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