The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang: Including Cray, Lit, Basic, and More

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Tyler Vendetti Rebecca Pry

The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang

Including Cray, Lit, Basic, and More

Tyler Vendetti, Rebecca Pry

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English

CIDER MILL PRESS
02 December 2020

linguistics; Humour

Series: Illustrated Compendium

The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang is an illustrated dictionary of the zaniest jargon, including everything from ankle-biter to zazzy! Complete with definitions, roots, and absurd usage quotes, these 300+ words are sure to make you go, “What does that mean?”

What do your grandmother, your math teacher, your soccer coach, and your booger of a brother all have in common? They all have used slang at some point in their lives! Whether they were getting “jiggy” with it in the ’90s or raving about the “cat’s pajamas” in the ’ 20s, everyone has experienced the joy that comes with these coded exchanges. In this illustrated volume, we’ll take a walk down memory lane, exploring the best, worst, and most lit terms that have ever graced the pages of the English dictionary.

Need an example? We’ve got plenty—300+ to be exact!—including:

Canary (noun): a female singer, the likes of which you might find “chirping” along at the front of the jazzy musical group that your mom hired for your bat mitzvah.

Greaser (noun): a tough guy who is as slick as the hair products that he soaks his fro’ in.

Tubular (adjective): breathtaking, like the wave the dad who said it is probably cruising on.

Bounce (verb): to leave quickly and suddenly before anyone can hear you use the word bounce.

Tea (noun): The hot goss that your friend’s been holding onto, like a literal cup of burning tea she’s waiting to toss in your face when the time is right.

The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang is jam-packed with “dope” slang words, their origin stories, hilarious usage quotes, and a pronunciation guide so you can properly enunciate that funny word that no one understands. From millennial jargon to Gen Z lingo, this comprehensive collection of modern slang is sure to make you go cray (in a good way).

By: Tyler Vendetti
Illustrated by: Rebecca Pry
Imprint: CIDER MILL PRESS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781951511029
ISBN 10: 1951511026
Series: Illustrated Compendium
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tyler Vendetti is a writer and aspiring human with a passion for comedy, pop culture, and coffee mugs shaped like animals. Author of The Illustrated Compendium of Ugly and Gross English Words and its sequel The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words, she specializes in pieces related to language, idioms, slang, and more. Entertainment assistant by day and digital journalist by night, Tyler has bylines in xoJane, TIME Online, Cosmopolitan magazine, HelloGiggles, The Penny Hoarder, and Thought Catalog, among others. When she's not scribbling jokes on napkins, Tyler can be found on Twitter @HeyThereFuture or at her apartment in sunny Los Angeles. Rebecca Pry is an Illustrator and Designer living in Warwick, New York. She received a BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 2013. Rebecca's art adds a humorous twist to everyday items and scenes, and she has created patterns and graphics for home goods, books, accessories, apparel, and regularly shows her work in local galleries in the Hudson Valley. When she is not drawing, she is outside in a brightly colored sweater. See more at Rebeccapry.com.