Here are hundreds of intriguing, informative articles that provide the pronunciations, definitions, sample sentences, origins, and informal histories of over 2,500 new words and phrases. The editors have drawn words from poetics, the environmental movement, technology, business, sports, and entertainment; politically charged terms such as tree-hugger, feminazi, and lipstick lesbian, and popular expressions such as __ "the from hell" (waiter from hell, dentist from hell) and "been there, done that" Two-thirds of the articles are new to this edition, and the others -- on still-prominent words included in the first edition -- have been either revised or newly written. This useful and engaging resource is the First place to turn for information when faced with new words and phrases, and will be a gold mine of language for word lovers everywhere.