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Slang is the counter-language. A jackanapes lexicon of the dispossessed. The language of the rebel, the outlaw, the despised, the marginal, the young. Above all it is the language of the city.

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Women? Let's get real: we called them chicks. What they did was 'chick work', which tended to be secretarial in its myriad forms... Whatever their own agenda, girls were there for sex, joint-rolling and throwing together the all too mandatory slop.

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Jonathon Green

Jonathon Green

Born: April 20, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Jonathon Green is a British lexicographer of slang and writer on the history of alternative cultures.

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