Nazs Underground Dictionary

by Kenn Naz Young

The culmination of 40 years of compiling words, phrases and their
definitions by a widely traveled former musician and journalist, Naz's
Underground Dictionary is an invaluable reference for hospitals, law
enforcement officials, journalists, psychologists & psychiatrists,
screenwriters, attorneys, athletic departments, social service agencies,
writers' groups, linguists and language researchers. Years of association with
various cultures and subcultures has provided the author with the base to
publish this unique collection of slang.

Daily changes in our society offer a new array of terms being used by those
who choose to be antiestablishment and out of the mainstream society.

Contained in this lexicon are more than 9,000 words and phrases with 35,000
definitions of the terminology of the underworld and criminal elements, prison
inmates, drug culture, ethnic groups, carnivals, circuses, prostitutes,
musicians, streetgangs, gamblers, horseracing, boxing, hippies, bohemians,
Beatniks, travelers of the road, and many generational subcultures. Many
definitions are noted by era, locale and by which sub-culture the term is
used.
Examples of usage in context are common. An appendix provides a brief
series of
episodes illustrating how this slanguage might be used on the street.

This book is not only a valuable reference for professionals but an often
humorous look at our slang language of the past century and more.

327 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1992