OH yeah... I almost forgot... some of these Dictionaries are SLANG and that means IMPROPER so in some of them there are words that are NOT meant for general use.... that's why it's called SLANG.

European Slang

Brit Speak

-- English as a Second Language for Americans -- "The folks at the BritSpeak language laboratory invite you to grab your brolly, knock up a friend and join us on a linguistic tour of Britain... "

London Slang

-- current slang as heard on the streets of London.

Dictonary of Slang

-- monster online dictionary from the British perspective.

Embarrassing/confusing UK/USA words

-- another humorous and useful collection for anyone who travels... ie. "fag" is a cigarette and a "rubber" is a pencil eraser.

Irish Slang

-- "ages" (a long time) to "yonks" (a long time)

Rhyming Slang

-- the rhyming slang used in London the format is easy to use. slang-English-usage ie.. "Adam and Eve - Believe - I don't Adam and Eve it!"

American Slang

Yo Guide to Today's Slang

-- "Wassup? Wussup?? Is ya lookin' fo slang from today and back in da day? Eh, ya need ta brush up on yo 'bonics? Need ta get yo mack on? Ight, den dis is da place to be! Peep da otha stuff on heah..."

Amerispeak

-- A place to record those phrases that have been passed down through the generations in your family.

Wicked Good Guide to Boston English

-- "Everybody knows about pahking cahs in Hahvihd Yahd, but there's a lot more to Boston English than that, despite what Hollywood would have you believe. We have our own way of pronouncing other words, our own vocabulary, even a unique grammatical construct. Journey outside the usual tourist haunts, and you just might need a guide to understand the locals..."

American Slanguages

-- The Hick-to-Hip Translation Guide

Aussie Slang

Larry's Aussie Slang

-- alphabetical listing from "She'll be APPLES" to "ZACK"

Australian Slang

-- glossary that covers words and pronunciations "act" to "zeds"

True Blue Australian Slang Source

-- Aussie-American-definition/explantion from "abbo - zac"

Other Slangs

International Slang

-- the Alternitive Dictionaries Page in so many languages I didn't even count. Lots of KEWL WURDS!

Alternitive English Dictonary

-- part of the International collection listed above.

Nautical Expressions in the Vernacular

-- Myriad expressions in everyday English have nautical origins.
For example: freeze the balls of off a brass monkey -- It is not what you think. On ships, cannon balls were sometimes stacked in what was called a monkey, usually made from brass. When it got really cold the monkey would contract forcing some of the cannon balls to fall off.

Hacker's Dictionary

-- "This document (the Jargon File) is in the public domain, to be freely used, shared, and modified. There are (by intention) no legal restraints on what you can do with it, but there are traditions about its proper use to which many hackers are quite strongly attached...."
a sample entry: codewalker: n. A program component that traverses other programs for a living. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new `vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."

Stoner Slang

-- "Cannabis culture is thriving and stoners can now exchange their experiences and concepts through the 'net. The chat can be confusing as times though, the slang of differnet regions clashing with one another.."

Word for Word

-- origins of unsual words and phrases

Wizard's Gay Slang

-- slang with a gay slant... from "69" to "zymurgy"

On Line Slang Dictonary

-- "Though Webster publishes a slang dictionary, it could potentially take years for a new word or phrase to enter it's pages. Now... here... it can be in a dictionary in a matter of hours..." From "about that" to "zosted" in 4 volumns

Hardboiled Slang

-- "This is the language spoken by Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer, and Continental Op. When Cagney, Bogart, Robinson, and Raft got in a turf war, this is how they talked..."

Silicon Valley Slang

-- Computer talk from "Academic Placenta"-the last of one's academic ideology that exists in their first years as a professional in the real world -- to "Zapping"-the lowest form of software programming known to mankind...

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