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To refer to the publication of the first volume of the HDAS is long-awaited would be to give away no secret, for many linguists have long been aware of Jonathan Lighter's announcement of his project several years ago, and it was Stuart Flexner's coup to grab it for Random House.
Other linguists who have taken on the chalenge of doing so include Jonathan Green, Hotten, Grose, William and Mary Morris, Wentworth and Flexner, and Eric Partridge, who published the first edition of his enormous Dictionary of Slag and Unconvential English in 1937.
This dictionary might be said to be the grandson of The Random House Dictionary of the English Language - College Edition , 1968, of which I was editor in chief (with the late Stuart B. Flexner as managing editor) and the great-grandson of the American College Dictionary [ ACD ], 1947, of which Clarence L. Barnhart was editor in chief.
It is not in the slightest way suggested that picking up citations from other works is in any way curious or reprehensible—anyone would be a fool to research any subject without relying on the scholarship that has gone before—but one would have expected the DARE to be found among books like Farmer and Henley's Dictionary of Slang and Its Analogues , Chapman's New Dictionary of Slang , Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang , and the others listed.
As for hamburger down , meaning to `take it easy,' could there be any relationship between that term and the hamburger cited by both Chapman and Went-worth/Flexner?
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