'Robert aced his physics exam.' A-Game: One’s best self, often in relation to a competition. And as evidenced by various fascist-normalizing profiles on the "alt right," the majority of white supremacists look like normal people and can blend easily into crowds. AMERICAN SLANG WORDS AND PHRASES (To) ace (v.): To pass a test, exam, etc. While everyone is familiar with the swastika's significance to white supremacists and their organization, not every sign is as obvious. Not every neo-Nazi is a skinhead (and not every skinhead is a neo-Nazi). A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. The dogwhistles have turned into screams. From Spencer's rally in which he and his followers gave the Nazi salute and shouted “Hail victory!” (the English translation of Nazi German slogan, “Seig heil!”) to Ann Coulter's " 14!" tweet (which she claims was part of her countdown to Obama's last day in office) or Bill O’Reilly’s open praise for the Electoral College’s function of keeping power in the hands of the “ white establishment,” white supremacy is no longer confined to fringe websites, radical terrorist organizations, or politicians’ subtextual appeals to certain voting blocks. The study of slang is now taken seriously by academics, especially lexicographers like the late Eric Partridge, devoting their energies to the field and publishing on it, including producing slang dictionaries.With the rise of the so-called “alt-right”-a term coined by white supremacist Richard Spencer to make his movement appear more palatable-overt references to horrifying bigotry have entered the mainstream.
In recent years, dictionaries with a more academic focus have tried to bring together etymological studies in an attempt to provide definitive guides to slang while avoiding problems arising from folk etymology and false etymology. Grose's work was arguably the most significant English-language slang dictionary until John Camden Hotten's 1859 A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words. Other early slang dictionaries include A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, first published circa 1698, and Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, first published in 1785. The Canting Academy, or Devil's Cabinet Opened was a 17th-century slang dictionary, written in 1673 by Richard Head, that looked to define thieves' cant. Slang dictionaries have been around hundreds of years. Famous slang dictionaries 17th and 18th centuries
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