The first of the New Zealand born lexicographer's dictionaries of slang and unconventional English: songs, chants and sayings, extensive glossary, appendixes of, eg, 'songs accompanying bugle calls'; lyrics to some songs expurgated, generally when the anatomy or intimate activities are involved - 'We are the heroes of the night / And we'd sooner _____ than fight / We're the heroes of the Stand-Back Fusiliers' - and become the more explicit for it.
