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The task undertaken by Lillo and Victor is totally justified, mostly because of the comprehensive and integrative nature of this dictionary, which goes well beyond a collection of current rhyming slang vocabulary. The macrostructure of the dictionary is composed of a main part, in which rhyming slang items are arranged in alphabetical order, even if the entry consists of more than one unit, which means that multi-word items are headwords in their own right. One of the dictionary's best features lies in the fact that Lillo and Victor have provided a collection of rhyming slangs from throughout the English-speaking world. [Extracted from the article]

Then you've got the lush and downright filthy Rented Rooms; the brutal spoken word short story of My Sister; the gospel joy of Harmony Around My Table; What Are We Fighting For's wee small hours soul; the show-stopping elegance of Pinky In The Daylight. Past Imperfect manages to pack so much of what makes them Tindersticks into its 20 tracks. Bella Union SLANG 50409 DL (2CD, 3CD, 2LP, 4LP) Career-spanning comp Over the past 30 years, Tindersticks have released consistently wonderful, musically curious and sophisticated albums while cultivating an air of apartness that has served them well. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English: A Crunk Omnibus for Thrillionaires and Bampots for the Ecozoic Age," by Grant Barrett.

Reviews the book "Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon," by Michael Adams.

Reviews the book "Slayer Slang: A "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Lexicon," by Michael Adams.

The article reviews the 2 volumes of the book "The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English," edited by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor.

Reviews the book "Informal English: Puncture Ladies, Egg Harbors, Mississippi Marbles, and Other Curious Words and Phrases of North America," by Jeffrey Kacirk.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'New Dictionary of American Slang,' edited by Robert L. Chapman.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary of Oaths, Curses, Insults, Sexual Slang and Metaphor, Racial Slurs, Drug Talk, Homosexual Lingo, and Related Matters,' by Richard A. Spears.

Analyzes process behind the adoption , use, and alteration of slang English language among college students in the U.S. Approaches in observation; Incorporation of collegiate terms; Meanings of the term gungh-ho.

Reviews the book 'The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang,' compiled by Jonathan Green.

Reviews the book 'The Jonathan David Dictionary of Popular Slang,' by Anita Pearl.

Since then, he's radically reinvented their sound - flirting with glitchy, minimal electronica and obscuring his conversational and resonant singing voice with layers of vocoder - and taken a sample-based approach to songwriting. Showtunes City Slang SLANG 50362 (CD, LP) Fourteen albums in and still finding new frontiers Increasingly, 2012's masterful Mr M feels like a watershed moment in the career of Lambchop's Kurt Wagner - the point where perhaps he felt he'd taken the group's richly atmospheric, soul-tinged indie as far as he felt necessary. [Extracted from the article]

City Slang SLANG 50341LP (CD, LP) Pop experimentalism from US-German composer. The criminally overlooked 2017 eponymous first album from Hamburg-via-Baltimore composer Sophia Kennedy operated at the less-travelled junction where dance culture meets TuneYards-style leftfield art-pop. Kennedy's second sidelines most of its predecessor's club inclinations, choosing to burrow deeper into bohemian pop peppered with abstract wordplay (her whimsical take on existential issues has survived her debut). [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "A History of Slang and Cant Dictionaries," vol.1 "1557-1784," by Julie Coleman.

The article reviews the book "The Life of Slang" by Julie Coleman.

The article reviews the book "Green's Dictionary of Slang," by Jonathan Green.

The article reviews the book "Barron's American Slang Dictionary and Thesaurus," by Mary Elizabeth.

The article reviews the book "Slang: The People's Poetry," by Michael Adams.

The article reviews the book "The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English," edited by Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor.

Reviews the book "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: American Political Slang," edited by Grant Barrett.

Reviews the book "Oxford Dictionary of Slang," edited by John Ayto.

Reviews the book 'Straight From the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang,' by Max Decharne.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Dictionary of American Slang,' by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner.

Reviews the book "The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang," by Tony Thorne.

Reviews the book 'Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary of Oaths, Curses, Insults, Sexual Slang and Metaphor, Raciel Slurs, Drug Talk, Homosexual Lingo, and Related Matters,' by Richard A. Spears.

Reviews the book "A Thesaurus of Slang," by Howard N. Rose.

The article analyzes the poem "Tunbridge Wells" by John Wilmot, second Early of Rochester and focused on the meaning of the phrase "Scotch Fiddle" used in the verse satire. It notes that the "Oxford English Dictionary" (OED) has a 17th-century citation for "fiddle" as a slang term for taking advantage of a woman, which the author suggests Wilmot used in reference to a common practice at the Court.

The article reviews the book "Madre: Perilous Journey with a Spanish Noun," by Liza Bakewell.

The article reviews the book "D!rty Yiddish: Everyday Slang From What's Up? To "F*%# Off!" by Adrienne Gusoff.

The article reviews the book "The Life of Slang" by Julie Coleman.

The article reviews the book "Slang: The People's Poetry," by Michael Adams.