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Dictionary of American Slang by Barbara Ann Kipfer and Robert L Chapman

  • This is a reference book that chronicles the vocabulary of informal American English. It tracks derogatory terms, phrases, profanity, racial slurs and slang from its American roots to its modern-day usage. This addition has added over 1,500 new words and phrases.

  • This book contains definitions/references or implies the following: alcohol, alternate gender/sexual ideologies (excessive), anxiety, assassination, bestiality, BDSM, blackmail, bullying, death/grief, deception, depression, derogatory terms (excessive), deviant content, drag queen/transvestites, drugs, gore, horror, huffing, kinks, mental illness, molestation, murder, nudity, pedophilia, potentially patently offensive content, potential prurient content, profanity (excessive), prostitution, rape, sex toys, sexual content (explicit/aberrant), stealing, torture, violence, voyeurism and more.

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