Slang
[slæŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); 'they don't speak our lingo'.
(noun.) informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar; 'their speech was full of slang expressions'.
(verb.) abuse with coarse language.
(verb.) use slang or vulgar language.
Checked by Dora--From WordNet
Definition
(-) imp. of Sling. Slung.
(n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
(n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
(n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
(v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
(-) of Sling
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cant, low language, colloquial expression, inelegant expression.
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Definition
n. a conventional tongue with many dialects which are as a rule unintelligible to outsiders such as Gypsy Canting or Flash Back-slang and Shelta or Tinkers' Talk: any kind of colloquial and familiar language serving as a kind of class or professional shibboleth.—adj. pertaining to slang.—v.i. to use slang and esp. abusive language.—v.t. to scold.—adv. Slang′ily.—n. Slang′iness.—adj. Slang′ular slangy.—v.i. Slang′-whang to talk slangily or boisterously.—n. Slang′-whang′er an abusive and wordy fellow.—adj. Slang′y.
n. a narrow strip of land.—Also Slank′et. Slang slang n. (slang) a counterfeit weight or measure: a travelling show or a performance of the same: a hawker's license: a watch-chain: (pl.) convicts' leg-irons.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The grunt of the human hog (Pignoramus intolerabilis) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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Examples
- Hanging about the doorway (I fancied,) were slouchy Pompeiian street-boys uttering slang and profanity, and keeping a wary eye out for checks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yet it 'crops up'--as our slang goes--my lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, in other fellow-creatures, rather frequently! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- HE would get on well enough if she'd let him alone; they like his slang and his brag and his blunders. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Yes, yes, Mr. Philander, if you insist upon employing slang in your discourse, a 'lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Are you beginning to dislike slang, then? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the detestable slang of the day, we were now both at a deadlock, and nothing was left for it but to refer to our clients on either side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Editor: Robert