Definition of slang
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:an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech
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Examples of slang in a Sentence
tends to use too much hacker's slang when talking to coworkers about their computer problems
Recent Examples of slang from the Web
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Glouglou: French slang for light red wine that is so chuggable it glou-glou-glous all the way down your gullet.
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Lastly, thank you to Andrew Nusca for letting me print curse words, emojis, rap lyrics and Internet slang in an 87-year old business magazine, for giving me the URL Fortune.com/unicorntears, and for being a fantastic editor, boss, and colleague.
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But scholars and North Korean refugees say the outside information has helped bring a wealth of changes, from new slang to changing fashions to increasing demand for consumer goods in the expanding market economy.
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A lot of the stuff just doesn’t work grammatically in English and on top of that there is the whole slang of the drug war, and also of Culiacán and Sinaloa.
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MS-13 is the street gang La Mara Salvatrucha, a name derived from the slang words for gang, El Salvadorans and cunning, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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What was once limited to New York has since expanded into a full network with its own slang, style, and sense of unity.
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This is particularly true of slang and informal language.
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Paris Is Burning is a required reading, illuminating just how much of contemporary slang and culture, from vogueing to realness to throwing shade, owes a debt to these fearless queens.
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Origin and Etymology of slang
slang Synonyms
Synonyms
argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patois, patter, shop, shoptalk, terminology, vocabularyRelated Words
colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism; slanguage; bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabbleOther Language Terms
Recent Examples of slang from the Web
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Galloway-Gallego and Maxey adapt ASL to wordplay and slang signage, conveying the imagery in various popular lyrics, especially hip-hop.
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Although sometimes slang for hapless chaos, for everything that can go wrong going wrong, a goat rodeo can also imply that out of pandemonium can come something new.
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Is Donald J. Trump’s slang about female anatomy in the play?
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First Known Use of slang
1828
SLANG Defined for English Language Learners
slang
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noun
Definition of slang for English Language Learners
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: words that are not considered part of the standard vocabulary of a language and that are used very informally in speech especially by a particular group of people
SLANG Defined for Kids
slang
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noun
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Definition of slang for Students
:very informal words used by a group of people
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