Urban Dictionaries

For all us exchange students, rednecks and other illitterates looking to improve our big-city-vocabularies, http://www.urbandictionary.com and http://www.word-detective.com are two awesome resources. The first one will help you fine-tune your street lingo and avoid a lot of the traps that'd make you sound just like the obnoxious skinny white boy you are, whereas the second one provides the James Joyce-ish finesse that's guaranteed to impress the ladies in the cafés and bookstores downtown. Let me here you say 'Quintessential', holmes.