- Introduction - slang 101 : "it ain't no big thing"
- 1. Auctionese : what's your pleasure?
- 2. Automotive slang : how to speak car talk
- 3. Aviation and space : words from the wild blue yonder
- 4. Bureaucratese : the talk of the white-collar bailiwick
- 5. Business and finance : buzzwords for big shots
- 6. Computerese : what do you say to a chiphead?
- 7. Crime, punishment, and the law : words you don't hear on the outside
- 8. Cube-speak : the postdigital talk of the modern office, a.k.a. the Cube farm
- 9. Drugs : the spacy talk of the junkie, cokehead, druggie, pothead, and gen Rx-er
- 10. Fantasy, the future, science fiction, potterdom, and cyberpunk : coming to terms with parallel worlds
- 11. Food and drink : words and phrases from haute to not so hot
- 12. Gaming slang : coming to terms with the track, the table, the wheel, the slots, and the bingo jackpot
- 13. Hip-hop and like that : an earful of urban culturez
- 14. Java-speak : slang of the twenty-first-century coffeehouse
- 15. Media and publishing slang : words from those who fill the printed page, he airwaves, and, increasingly, cyberspace
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- 16. Medical and emergency room slang : words you don't want to hear from your hospital bed
- 17. Mental states : cutting with a dull tool, too much cuckoo in the clock, and other fulldeckisms and marbles metaphors
- 18. Nautical slang : at sea with the language
- 19. Net-speak : an increasingly wireless Web of words
- 20. The great outdoors : in the wilderness, in the air, on (and under) water
- 21. Performing slang : from the mosh pit and the green room
- 22. Real estate : vocabulary to go with a CNTRY KIT, 3BR, 2BA, W/DD, ALRM, C/V, GRDN & RFDK, for $1,495,000
- 23. The sultry slang of sex : R-rated terms you probably won't find in your junior dictionary
- 24. The slang of spin : ad-speak, PR, and BR
- 25. Sports slang : of balls, bats, clubs, rackets, and pucks
- 26. Teen and high school slang : a dialect of, like, many subcultures
- 27. University and college slang : A-OK, but not always PC
- 28. War slang : terms for a time of terror
- 29. Washington-speak : inside the beltway : the lingo of the hill, K street lobbyists, the slug line, and other denizens of the capitol city
- 30. X-ers, yuppies, soccer moms, and other moderns : a field guide to the socio-tagged.
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