Reddit mentions of Niubi!: The Real Chinese You Were Never Taught in School

I bought this book called Niubi! a few years ago. It covers most stuff from everyday slang to internet lingo and obscure profanity.

The book provides both hanzi and pinyin for all the words, but the words are just explained in English and have no example sentences. I thought it was worth the money (it's pretty cheap), but maybe more as a fun book to skim through than for serious studying.

For something to browse and pick up a few phrases from, I'd recommend Niubi!: The Real Chinese You Were Never Taught in School. You can find a PDF online if you're into that. It has characters, pinyin, and a solid explanation with examples for each entry.

This is a book I really enjoyed: https://www.amazon.com/Niubi-Chinese-Never-Taught-School/dp/0452295564

You can check this out: http://www.chinasmack.com/glossary

It's mostly a glossary of internet terms, but there's a few commonly used slang words. Additionally, there's a book called Niubi! which one of my Chinese friends is letting me borrow. It's pretty comprehensive, it provides history for the slang, and it even tells you whether a term is region-specific.

Niubi has proved to be fairly helpful in knowing a lot of general slang. It is a few years old, so it won't have a lot of the very recent stuff, but a lot of the terms used in the book are still used a fair amount in the right situations, and aren't restricted to flash slang that comes up on the internet and fades away rather quickly.

I'll just leave this here.

Niubi!: The Real Chinese You Were Never Taught in School

Also the title of a really comprehensive and relevant book on Chinese slang.