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(Those who think of California as a paragon of avant-garde thought may need reminding that the school-marms there succeeded in banning the sale of the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, in the 1970s, by which time one might have thought that their moral fiber would have caught up with their professed modernity.)
Only a third of the terms have found their way into The Dictionary of American Slang , compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967) or Robert Chapman's New Dictionary of American Slang (Harper & Row, 1986).
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.
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?
Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang provides a citation for the similar form yatata yatata yatata from the play Jim Dandy : A Fat Man in a Famine (1947) by William Saroyan.