Stuart Berg Flexner ( 1928 – 1990 ) was a lexicographer, editor and author, noted for his books on the origins of American words and expressions, including I Hear America Talking and Listening to America ; as co-editor of the Dictionary of American Slang ' and as chief editor of the Random House Dictionary, Second Edition.

William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

Slang can be regional ( that is, used only in a particular territory ), but slang terms are often particular instead to a certain subculture, such as music or video gaming.

John Camden Hotten, in his Slang Dictionary of 1859, makes reference to " their use of a peculiar slang language " when describing the costermongers of London's East End.

Farmer Henley edited a seven volume dictionary of Slang and its analogues which inspired his two translations into thieves ' slang of ballades by François Villon.

The Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary published in 2004 is an up-to-date record of Australian slang.

His first major work on slang, Slang Today and Yesterday, appeared in 1933, and his well-known Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English followed in 1937.

Slang terms for the technique include: rapping or rap jumping ( American slang ), deepelling ( Canadian slang ), abbing ( British slang for " abseiling "), rappling ( Hindi slang ).

Mencken's The American Language and The Thesaurus of American Slang proclaim that lam, lamister, and " on the lam " — all referring to a hasty departure — were common in thieves ' slang before the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

* Slang and Colloquialisms In most native English speaking countries, large numbers of slang and colloquial terms are used in everyday speech.

They gained a fairly unsavoury reputation for their " low habits, general improvidence, love of gambling, total want of education, disregard for lawful marriage ceremonies, and their use of a peculiar slang language " ( John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, 1859 ).

In his unique " Fables in Slang ," which purveyed not so much slang as the American colloquial vernacular, Ade pursued an effectively genial satire notable for its scrupulous objectivity.

* a slang term for sexual intercourse derived from the Cockney Rhyming Slang expression ' nook and cranny ', meaning ' fanny ', or British army slang from Arabic niki, " I fuck "-a slang term referring specifically to the vagina.

A famous example is the Kardinal Offishall song " BaKardi Slang ", which gives examples of Toronto black youth slang — many derived from Caribbean speech.

* Slang for public toilet, a general British slang term in the Victorian era but almost exclusively used as gay slang from the 1960s.

The phrase " egg and spoon " features in The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ; its use, along with the idiom good egg with which it is sometimes confused, is frowned upon by the Metropolitan Police Service on the grounds of it being derogatory and rhyming slang for " coon ".

For more information relating to the geographics of Indonesian slang and regional influences, please see " Region Specific Slang " below ).

* Slang term for Jealous

John Camden Hotten lists the term in the fifth edition of his Slang Dictionary in 1874 as a " term very common among the lower orders of London, meaning to die from disease or accident.

* Slang term for testicle ( vulgar in polite company )

* Slang term for ejaculate ( vulgar in polite company )

* Slang term for being under the influence of caffeine.

* Slang term for anorexia nervosa

* Slang term referring to human penis size, particularly when the penis and scrotum contract in response to chilling.

* " Volapuk " encoding ( 1990s ): Slang term ( it's not really Volapük ) for a writing method that's not truly a transliteration, but used for similar goals ( see article ).

* Slang term, denoting a favor or obligation to be called upon.

* Slang term for " what the puss ", after the style of " WTF "

** Slang term for Money

* Slang term for an assist ( basketball )

* Slang term referring to a 1964 Chevrolet Impala, often configured as a lowrider, a popular subject among early-90's gangsta rap

* Slang for Alcoholic Beverage The term ' can ' entered the vernacular some time at the turn of the century.

* Slang term for a helicopter

* Slang term for a Douglas DC-3

* Slang term for a samara, the fruit of a maple tree

* Slang term for a paper fortune teller

: Slang for the term Shrovetide.

The term " toothing " was included in the 2006 version of The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

Slang and generally pejorative term for:

* BOL, an Internet Slang term for " burst of laughter ", " bahaha out loud ", or " bark ( ing ) out loud ", a variant of LOL

Becker contributed his first lead vocal on a Steely Dan studio album on the song " Slang of Ages " ( he had sung lead on his own " Book of Liars " on Alive in America ).

Slang had Bomer on lead vocals while new-comer Dave Raun played drums, Joe Raposo played bass, with Chris Rest and Barry ' D ' live ' Ward on guitars.

The band had had only enough money to mix one song, " City Slang ", so it was pressed on both sides of the single.