This video teaches twenty popular American slang words that you’ll hear in everyday conversations. Each term is explained in ...

From West Virginia to the Bay Area, Jennifer Garner, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Devine, E-40, Jon Hamm, Chloë Grace Moretz, Tiffany Haddish, Jason Bateman, Jennifer ...

Slang is an entire vocabulary all on its own, and American slang is no different. It’s quirky, strange and sometimes outright confusing if we’re being honest! American slang is filled with phrases and ...

The American slang can be quite difficult and confusing. In case you aren't familiar with the cultural context of the tricky terms used in these slangs, you won't be able to decipher the meaning. For ...

Every generation has its own way of speaking, but some slang words just don’t stand the test of time. Once popular phrases that were part of everyday conversation are now barely hanging on, used only ...

When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the academic community “virtually ignored” slang as a part of linguistics.

In American English, some slang words come and go. And some stay and stay. Or as Walt Whitman poetically observed in his 1885 defense of American slang, complete with creative spelling: "Slang ... is ...