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The Brain has selected interesting
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sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our
fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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The Dictionary of American Slang compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner (Second Supplemented Edition 1975) defines a magoo :
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Stuart Berg Flexner, preface, Dictionary of American Slang , by Robert L.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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The Random House Historical Dictionary Of American Slang can be read for pure pleasure, but is also an excellent resource for word scholars and storytellers.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The Dictionary of American Slang (Wentworth and Flexner) and The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins both trace the phrase in this way, but this only takes it back as far as the 1930s.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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A dictionary of slang, jargon, and cant embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian slang, pidgin English, tinkers’ jargon and other irregular phraseology.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Slang City highly recommends this book for ESL students.
NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions.
NTC's Dictionary of American Slang.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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The following citation is from the book Juba to Jive: the dictionary of African-American slang, by Clarence Major.
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