Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Author	Jonathan E. Lighter
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Slang
Genre	Reference work
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	1994 (v.1), 1997 (v.2)
Media type	Print
Pages	1742 (first 2 vols.)
ISBN	0-394-54427-7
OCLC	30029055
Dewey Decimal	427.973
LC Class	PE 2846 .H57 1994

The Historical Dictionary of American Slang, often abbreviated HDAS, is a dictionary of American slang. The first two volumes, Volume 1, A – G (1994), and Volume 2, H – O (1997), were published by Random House, and the work then was known as the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, sometimes abbreviated as RHHDAS. Both volumes used the same ISBN, ISBN 0-394-54427-7; the paperback editions are ISBN 978-0-394-54427-4 for Volume 1 and ISBN 978-0-679-43464-1 for Volume 2.

When Random House discontinued publication, Oxford University Press announced in 2003 that it would publish the two remaining volumes, Volume 3, P – S [Part 1], ISBN 978-0-19-517418-2, and Volume 4, S [Part 2] – Z ^[1]

Each entry includes representative quotations, including the earliest quotation using the word. HDAS is edited by Dr. Jonathan E. Lighter, of the University of Tennessee.

The HDAS is not to be confused with the DAS, the Dictionary of American Slang (1975).^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Historical Dictionary of American Slang: Project History". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
↑ Dictionary of American slang - Harold Wentworth, Stuart Berg Flexner - Google Books. Books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
↑ "Dictionaries and Works Cited: Dictionary of Newfoundland English". Heritage.nf.ca. Retrieved 2014-03-28.

Dictionaries of English

Old and Middle English	An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Dictionary of Old English Middle English Dictionary

Historic	Catholicon Anglicum (1483) The English Schoole-Master (1596) The New World of English Words (1658) A New English Dictionary (1702) An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1721) A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Webster's Dictionary (1828) Century Dictionary (1889–91)

American English	American Heritage Dictionary of American English Dictionary of American Regional English Imperial Dictionary New Oxford American Oxford American Random House Webster's Webster's New World Webster's Third New International Dictionary World Book Dictionary

British English	Chambers Collins Oxford English, Concise Oxford English, Compact Oxford English, Shorter Oxford English, Historical Thesaurus, Oxford Dictionary of English Penguin

Canadian English	Canadian Oxford Dictionary of Canadianisms Gage Canadian (Full list)

Australian English	Australian National Australian Oxford Macquarie

Online	Wiktionary Collaborative International Dictionary of English OmegaWiki Urban Dictionary Wordnik

Learners / ESL	Cambridge Advanced Learner's Collins COBUILD Advanced Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Oxford Advanced Learner's

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