americanisms

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of thousands of contemporary American slang and informal expressions, including fad words, idioms, metaphors, and figures of speech; and includes a "phrase-finder" index.

A collection of idiomatic phrases and sentences that occur frequently in American English.

A concise, up-to-date guide to synonyms with thousands of example sentences.

A linguistic history, told through anecdote and humor, of American speech and English word usage in the United States.

Contains alphabetically-arranged entries that define 20,000 acronyms and abbreviations, including airport codes, colleges and university names, sports terminology, Internet chat room terms, and terms from scores of other topic areas.

"This book revises, brings up to date, and consolidates (the author's) two earlier ones: A dictionary of usage and style and American usage.".

Defines and illustrates nearly 10,000 American idioms and popular phrases, and includes the origin and date each expression came into the language.

Contains over ten thousand alphabetically arranged entries, with 175,000 synonyms, and includes example sentences, as well as information on punctuation and other related topics.