TY - BOOK AU - Spears,Richard A. ED - NTC Publishing Group. TI - NTC's dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions SN - 0844204617 : AV - PE2846 .S64 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Lincolnwood (Chicago), Ill. PB - NTC Pub. Group KW - English language KW - United States KW - Slang KW - Dictionaries KW - Figures of speech KW - Americanisms N2 - Here's help for English learners who feel out of it because they don't understand that haps means "events", that down low means "lowdown" or "knowledge", or that ends is "money". If they don't know what it means when an Internet user types definately alot, or they hear the expression 404, they need to grab a few eagles, level their locks, and buy this dictionary at a bookstore in their hood.-- Most up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary of its kind, with 8,500 words and expressions-- More than 800 expressions new to the third edition-- Realistic full-sentence examples-- Includes Phrase-Finder Index and International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation ER -