Slang and Euphemism, 3rd revised ed.

I doubt how useful this is as a refence book, but the entries are very entertaining nonetheless. It's not sloppy by any means, the author has done his homework, but it's most useful for entertainment. The astounding number of synonyms for all of your favorite dirty words is simply hilarious.

I bought this book because the title implied that it would be a reference for slang and euphemism. It is not even close to being that. The front of the book may give a clue to its contents but, still it is not clear. The front of the book lists the type of slang included in the book, including "Oaths, Curses, Insults, Ethnic Slurs" ... "College Lingo and Related Matters". However, it seems that many of the words included in the book that fall into this list of categories, also fall into the category of drugs, sex and alcohol. The majority of words are related to "Sexual Slang and Metaphor" and "Drug Talk". There is nothing wrong with this. It seems to me that this book does a pretty thorough job of listing such slang and euphemism, but that's not what I wanted and that's not what the title promised.

Buy this book... that is, if you have the need to speak, write or understand drug, sex and drunkeness slang.

this book reads like a dictinary full of 1000's of terms

I personally picked up this book for oaths, curses, and insults. Something to liven up some of my less polite fictional characters, you know? But after purchasing this book, I'm not to happy. It contains mostly "Sexual slangs and metaphors," a few drug terms, but nothing that really fit my needs. But if that is what you're needing the book's alright, I guess

Not only informative, but also amusing. A great reference tool for writing and using correct cultural slang and euphemism. No writer should be without it. Gives origin, culture, and time period of a word or it's slang as well as a definition.