Dictionary of American Slang

The Dictionary of American Slang is a dictionary of slang edited by Stuart Flexner and Harold Wentworth, first published in 1960 by Thomas Crowell Company.[1]

The first three editions (1960, 1967, 1975) were edited by Flexner and Wentworth, while the third (1995) and fourth editions (2010) were largely reworked and edited by Barbara Ann Kipfer and Robert L. Chapman[2][3]

The dictionary was banned from some schools in California in 1963[4] as part of larger concern with its potential obscenity, including concern from Los Angeles City Councilman John C. Holland.[5] Later it was banned from certain schools in Colorado, in 1981.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Reynolds, Horace (30 July 1960). "HOW TO DIG THE HIPS' YACKETY-YAK". New York Times. p. 41, 57. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Kipfer, Barbara Ann; Chapman, Robert L. "Dictionary of American Slang 4e". HarperCollins US.
  3. ↑ Chapman, Robert L.; Kipfer, Barbara Ann; Wentworth, Harold (1995). "Dictionary of American slang". HarperCollins.
  4. ↑ Langguth, Jack (12 July 1963). "SLANG DICTIONARY SPELLS TROUBLE; California Debates Issue of Its Access to Youth Opposes Book Burning". New York Times.
  5. ↑ "Council Asks Dictionary of Slang Study," Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1963, page A-1
  6. ↑ "Topics; Chuckles, Zones and Bones; Strangling Language". The New York Times. 31 December 1981.
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