tailieunhanh - Slang and uncoventional english part 11

There is a profound relationship between language and culture, and neither Partridge nor Paul Beale, editor of the 8th edition, seem to have assimilated the cultural changes that began at the end of World War 2. This left them without the cultural knowledge needed to understand the language that they were recording. Their lack of cultural understanding accelerated with time, and this is sadly reflected in the later entries. Beatniks and drug addicts, and their slang, baffled Partridge and Beale, who lacked either the personal experience or historical perspective needed to understand underlying countercultures | big-assed big Dick 52 big-assed adjective large us 1945 Big B nickname Berlin US 1944 big bag noun a large bag of heroin heroin us 1969 big ball noun 1 in pool an object ball that can be hit either directly or on the rebound off a cushion. Because there are two ways to hit it it is a bigger target hence a big ball us 1913. 2 in bowling a rollthat forcefully hooks into the standing pins us 1962 big baller noun a big spender us 2001 big banger noun a motorcyle with a large one-cylinder engine us 19169 big beast noun an important powerful person UK 2000 big belly noun a B-52 bomber us 1986 Big Ben noun 1 ten ten pounds. Rhyming slang UK 1960. 2 the new large design hundred-dollar note minted in the late 1990s. The Ben is an allusion to Benjamin Franklin the C18 slang lexicographer whose portrait graces the note us 1996. 3 Benzedrine amphetamine sulphate a centralnervous system stimulant us 1966. 4 in craps a rollof ten. Rhyming slang us 1999. 5 a prison siren that announces an escape or riot us 1990. 6 the penis. A visualpun from the London landmark UK 2001 Big Ben nickname the USS Franklin heavily damaged off Japan on 19th March 1945 repaired and mothballed the USS Bennington commissioned in 1944 decommissioned in 1970 . The Bennington was featured in the opening scene of the CBS television programme Navy Log in 1956 and 1957 us 1994 Big Bertha noun an over-sized slot machine used as a promotion for hotel guests and to lure prospective gamblers into a casino us 1984 Big Bertha nickname the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus us 1973 big bikkies noun a large amount of money. From bicky a diminuitive form of biscuit new Zealand 1980 big bill noun a 100 note us 1961 big bird noun a long prison sentence. A play on bird lime time served in prison and Big Bird a large puppet featured on Sesame Street a children s television programme since 1969 UK 2000 Big Bird noun in homosexual usage a man with a large penis. An allusion to a character on the children s television