A Dictionary of English Rhyming Slangs 

Topics in English Linguistics

Editors: Elizabeth Closs Traugott Bernd Kortmann

Volume 98 

This dictionary is carefully named. It is a dictionary of rhyming slangs, slangs rather than slang. That plural is important to us. Our intention is to provide a comprehensive account of the varieties of rhyming slang found in and around English-speaking communities worldwide. Our purpose is to give the terms collected herein geographic and social identity and thereby offer an authoritative, up-to-date record of the variant rhyming slangs used in the anglophone world....