NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

by Richard A. Spears

Book Overview

NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions provides more than 10,000 slang expressions--colorful words and phrases used by subgroups like surfers, hackers, rappers, and brokers.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844208280
• ISBN13: 9780844208282
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
• Length: 555 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent tool for everyone, especially for immigrants

The book is an excellent tool to learn and understand a lot of expression people use in the United States and not only it offers the meaning, but suggests how and when you can use each phrase or word.If you are studying English now, or you are a new immigrant trying to assimilate this new culture, this book has to be in your bookcase, but even for natives the book educates how use each word, because even the "bad words" are listed.

Great reference, good for learning

It has a perfect price/size ratio, and it has about 90% of words and expressions I hear on TV. This dictionary can be used as a textbook as well, you can read through it several times and become "an insider" among native speakers. Bigger dictionaries are not good as textbooks. When I cant find a word in the NTC's i look it up in Webster's online.

A neat and useful dictionary!

I like this little dictionary very much. It contains most of the up to dated slang or expressions that we heard from movies, co-workers and TV. I can find more than 95% of the expressions I want to know in this neat and useful dictionary. It is also made of good quality paper and won't wear out easily. I recommend it to all foreign students, new comers just arrive North America, or even to those who want to know our latest colloquial expressions.

One of the better slang dictionaries.

Neatly printed and easy to use. It has approximately90 per cent of the slangexpressions that I have"looked-up" and is a goodbuy for the price.