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This new edition is bigger than ever, fully revised with over 10,000 4-letter expletives, sexual obscenities and lavatorial euphemisms. It is the essential reference for the student of vernacular English, the inquisitive etymologist and the mechanic who has just dropped a car battery on his foot.