TONY THORNE. DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY SLANG. London, A & C Black, 2005.

In my experience, most slang users are not inarticulate dupes but quite the opposite: they are very adept at playing with appropriacy, skilfully manipulating ironically formal, mocktechnical and standard styles of speech as well as slang. If prompted they can often provide insights into their own language quite as impressive as those hazarded by professional linguists or sociologists. For this reason, for the first time in the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang I have sometimes included, in their own words, users’ definitions of terms and comments on their usage as well as the direct quotations – ‘citations’ – contributed by them and featured in previous editions.