slang

[US]/slæŋ/
[UK]/slæŋ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. informal language or words used by a particular group; jargon
adj. relating to informal language or words used by a particular group
vi. to curse using vulgar language
vt. to speak using informal language or words used by a particular group

Example Sentences

the currency of a slang term.

prune the slang from a speech

Most slang has short currency.

The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.

grass is slang for marijuana.

he watched ideological groups slanging one another.

Depress, sadden, dispirit, [Slang; late 1960s

It started as a peaceful discussion, but it ended in a real slanging match.

griever: Slang term for a human who still remembers a given ghost, and may potentially be an anchor.

persuaded the parties to quit slanging and come to the bargaining table.

The word is recorded around 1796in a slang usage particular to Cambridge University, “a townsman as opposed to a gownsman.

We know this because kid and napper, the two parts of the compound, were slang of the sort that criminals might use.

Actually, we can use the British slang to express it, that is: hard cheese.

Slanger was killed the following day by an artillery shell. She was one of seventeen Army nurses killed in combat.

Maybe you have social faults such as snobbishness, talkativeness, using slang, etc. which drive away new acquaintances.

Another contemporary usage dates from 1918 and means copulation, and is probably related to the slang term "jism.

Here was a type of the travelling canvasser for a manufacturing house--a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day “drummers.

Frances Slanger of the 45th Field Hospital expressed the feeling in an October letter addressed to Stars and Stripes but written to the troops: “You G.I.’s say we nurses rough it.

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