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Tom Cruise makes it into the dictionary -- The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, anyway -- with "jump the couch."
January 2006 2006
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Tom Cruise makes it into the dictionary -- The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, anyway -- with "jump the couch."
New Year Hangovers 2006
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Tom Cruise makes it into the dictionary -- The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, anyway -- with "jump the couch."
New Year Hangovers 2006
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Oxford expects to bring out volume three of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang in 2006.
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Oxford University Press has put online a long and fascinating interview (pdf file; HTML cache here) with J.L. Lighter, compiler of the indispensible and happily revived Historical Dictionary of American Slang (which he's been working on since he left high school).
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J.E. Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang pushed the earliest dating back to 1967, citing The Doom Pussy, a book by
Freakonomics 2009
mollusque commented on the word Historical Dictionary of American Slang
By J. E. Lighter, 1994-1997. Full title: Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang. The first two volumes are excellent, but the work seemed dead in the water when Random House abandoned it. Fortunately, Oxford University Press has decided to continue the work. HDAS also contains dincher (see my comment under Dictionary of American Regional English).
January 21, 2010