A Dictionary of Slang has taken over 25 years to author and develop; please respect how much time has been put into developing this resource and the copyright and rights of ownership. That ownership allows me, the author, to be selective in how this dictionary is used.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, copyright or similar rights in all written material presented on this website, is owned by Ted Duckworth.
Please contact Ted Duckworth for all copyright and usage enquiries, by emailing
You are entitled to print or download extracts from these pages for your personal use only, but you are not permitted to use such material in any commercial way.
Copies of the webpages, linked to herein, which you have saved to disk or to any other storage system or medium may be used for your own personal subsequent viewing purposes only. This also applies to extracts printed for personal use.
If a copy of this website or its contents has been made and retained for personal use, then it must be stored in a place that is not accessible to anyone else, or other users of the Internet or the computer network on which it is stored. Similarly it must not be in a location on a web server that is accessible to search engine spiders.
You may not (whether directly, or indirectly, including through the use of any program) create a database in an electronic or other form by downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this website without my prior written consent save as expressly authorised by an agreement in writing between us.
Unless with my prior permission no part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other website, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service.
You may of course link to this dictionary website using standard hyperlinks, as used throughout the WWW and as this website itself also uses, linking to other similar resources, as seen on the links page.
Copyright infringement is taken very seriously, it is a internationally, legally enforcable law. Those considering using content from this website without prior permission are advised to seriously consider their actions and the likely consequences. Over the last few years there have been many instances of severe copyright infringement of this site. These usually take the form of websites including large sections of the content from 'A Dictionary of Slang'. In every instance the author or owner of such websites has been successfully requested to remove the unauthorized material. Those who have ignored my request have subsequently been forced, legally, to remove the copyright infringing material, and often with additional consequences such as the loss of their web hosting accounts.
There have been occasions when I have permitted the use of extracts of this resource for use on other websites. This authorization was granted only after prior agreement on how that use should be implemented and agreement on the formatting. If you would like to use extracts from 'A Dictionary of Slang' please bear in mind that I need to be contacted first.
Examples of a websites that have permission to use extracts, and have followed preferred guidelines:
The UK Web Archiving Consortium - this archiving project, lead by The British Library, is the only other website that has permission to show a complete copy of this dictionary, and periodically archive older versions. Visit the archive listings for Dictionary of Slang, or the UKWAC homepage.
A useful resource and guide on copyright can be found here.