Online Dictionary of Playground Slang:

The ODPS is dedicated to the preservation of oral ephemera... in other words we collect.... err... words! Not just your ordinary everyday English, but your suddenly created, used and discarded words with their changing meanings and use.

From humble beginnings as a personal collection of schoolyard slang, the site now includes words from other more exotic 'playgrounds'. Alongside slang from the schoolyard we also store schoolyard games and their rules; songs; chants; nursery rhymes; tongue twisters; rugby songs; and now also gay slang.

Each topic has it's own space, is indexed, and awaits more words to keep them company!

Remember. history needs you to send in your memories before they are lost forever... and what a tragedy *that* would be... maybe?

Access to the Dictionaries is via the links in the panel on the right and you can return here at any time by clicking the ODPS logo at top left of any page.

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