Synonym: argot, befool, cant, cod, dupe, fool, gull, jargon, lingo, patois, put on, put one across, put one over, slang expression, slang term, take in, vernacular. Similar words: island, slander, languid, language, slap, slam, slate, Islam. Meaning: [slæŋ] n. 1. informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar 2. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves). v. 1. use slang or vulgar language 2. fool or hoax 3. abuse with coarse language.
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61. Beef – slang term for a dispute.
62. Heaps : slang word meaning a lot.
63. His slang was the lingua franca.
64. Slang An insipid or ill-natured person.
65. If you prune away the slang, your speech will be improved. Sentencedict.com
66. In golfing slang, a ball half-buried in a sand bunker is called a "fried egg."
67. Other terms that can be used for masturbation include self-pleasuring, self-pleasing, self-loving, and several slang terms.
68. A couple of hundred years ago, England sent its prisoners to Australia to live out their prison sentences. Many people say Strine rhyming slang is evidence of Australia's convict past!
69. Etymonline agrees with the slang origin but also offers a couple of words from Scottish dialect and French that could have lead to bamboozle.
70. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their presence.
71. His frequent use of slang threw the students into mental confusion.
72. Teenage slang, said Mr Sonnenfeldt firmly, “could hardly be the vocabulary word of an amnesiac.”
73. However diligently Wilson practised, the slang phrase sounded unnaturally on his lips.
74. Some say its name comes from the Zulu language, others that it derives from township slang.
75. This paper aims to discuss the different types of the patterns of word-formation and focus on the playful, elliptical vivid and euphemistic characteristics of English slang.
76. In The Oxford English Dictionary the term gun moll is said to be American slang for a female thief or an armed woman.
77. Slang One that is suggestive of a genetic mutant, as in bizarre appearance, inaptitude, or genesis in an unhealthy environment.
78. In order for slang to be slangy, it has to have a feeling of perpetual newness.
79. Although a great deal of the time she was full of false heartiness, jollying one along with mannish slang ('Buck up, old chap! '
80. A rough, violent person who engages in destructive actions: mug, roughneck , rowdy, ruffian, tough. Informal toughie. Slang hood, punk.
81. Etymology: This phrase comes from World War II US Army slang.
82. The borderline between informal language and slang is hard to define.
83. It sounds inoffensive but it's actually rhyming slang for something rude.
84. Therefore, slang translation involves not only rendering lexical meaning , but achieving facsimile of culture.
85. Each sub-group of American society-from teenagers to soldiers to thieves to ethnic groups-has its own slang.
86. English rhyming slang is gaining popularity throughout English speaking countries, especially among youngsters, with its obscurity and implicitness.
87. Thus, San Francisco rapper E-40's call for listeners to "get hyphy" (go crazy) may be heard as "get high fee" (be charged a lot of money) by those who don't know that regional slang expression.
88. LL: Right. To conk out is slang for falling into a deep sleep.
89. Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
90. In American English, Slang mingled with jargon and Colloquialism, but they are different from each other.
More similar words: island, slander, languid, language, slap, slam, slate, Islam, slave, Islamic, slavery, translate, legislator, legislative, antislavery, legislation, legislature, translation, land, gang, clan, plan, lane, range, angst, angel, angry, angle, anger, plant.