Word: slanging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barracks-style men's dormitory. They turned the second floor into offices, kitchen, dining hall and living room, and the main floor into women's sleeping quarters. Over the doors in the living room they hung their emblem: a life preserver with the words "S.S. Hang Tough," slang for "don't give...
...fatal with Joe when he's in one of his Emperor Augustus moods," says Investment Banker Charles Spalding, who was present. "So when she came in, he started to give her the needle, but she gave it right back. Old Joe has a lot of old-fashioned slang phrases, so Jackie told him: 'You ought to write a series of grandfather stories for children, like "The Duck with Moxie," and "The Donkey Who Couldn't Fight His Way Out of a Telephone Booth...
This may be one of the oldest marriage stories in the world. Then why read it? Because Author Barstow often makes the human situation quiver on the page. Vic tells the story in the first person-and in rich, casual slang-with a kind of boyish innocence that is no mere storytelling contrivance. Everything from inexperienced sex to the showdown with mother-in-law has the edge of simple truth on it. In the end, the fact that Vic's story has been played out so often before wherever boy met girl does no damage; on the contrary...
CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...
...Borazonic is latest English schoolboy slang, derived from new metal, borazon. Translation: "Absolutely wizard...