A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch phrases, fossilised jokes and puns, general nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalised (8th ed.)

The definitive work on slang and unconventional English in its very first paperback edition.

Fully revised and updated by Paul Beale, this eagerly awaited eighth edition is the last to contain Partridge's original work.

The dictionary gives a fully documented account of English slang over four centuries and has entertained and informed all lovers of the English language.