From "hot head" to "nose job," "beer belly" to "pain in the butt," "knee jerk" to "foot in mouth disease," slang is an integral and natural part of our conversational language. We may not be able to define it, but we know it when we see it. Author and leading authority Richard Spears takes on the colloquialisms, vulgarities, and substandard English that form the "general slang" that you are likely to encounter in everyday interactions in contemporary American life. McGraw-Hill"s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions, Fourth Edition, provides complete definitions of thousands of slang and informal expressions ranging from golden oldies such as catch some rays and take the fifth to recent coinages like shizzle (gangsta), jonx (Wall Street), and ping (the Internet). Each entry includes one or more examples illustrating how an expression is used in everyday conversation. Wherever necessary, International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciations are provided. And...