This guide contains over 60,000 entries covering slang from the 16th century to the 1990s, and includes the latest slang terms and expressions. Slang is covered from all parts of the English-speaking world, including Britain, North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, from Elizabethan times to the present. Ranging from the jargon used by criminals in Victorian London to the drugs culture of the modern world, via swear words, rhyming slang and the often colourful language of sex, this dictionary gives definitions for thousands of slang words and expressions.