R. Cagliero - C. Spallino Dizionario di Slang Americano Slang americano - Italiano Edigeo
The US Slang is nowadays an integral part of the American English language system, and this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary between American slang and Italian. Great attention has been given to acrospeack (the trend of using acronyms and abbreviations), to expressions created by meaning inversion, to neologisms linked to particular historical events.
All terms come with the indication of the usage scope or the comunity where they have been created and are now used: from street gangs to hip-hop culture, from Afro-American to student slang, without forgetting all the nicknames given to typical figures of the US culture.
The databank: [version: 2016]
• 21.000 American headwords and 500 nicknames
• 27.000 different acceptions
• 35.000 Italian translations
• 3000 expressions given as usage examples
• 100 cultural information boxes
• Indication of the usage scope of each term
The search software:[version: 18.1.slang]
• Direct search of index of entries
• Approximate search of headwords activated when no exact match is found
• Advanced search by field:
- Headwords
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- Full text
- Choice of specific usage labels
• Use of wild-card characters and logical operators
• Instant search of every word within an entry
