slang
49
7.9
- noun
- /slæŋ/
- Slang
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jerga
- If you live with someone who might use a certain slang, you're going to pick up their slang.
- slang words
- slang terms
- use slang
I don't know, DMS like the slang for direct messages.
- I don't know, DMS like the slang for direct messages.
- Consort, of course, is British slang for home wrecker.
- Sato is Puerto Rican slang for street dog.
- If that is your name, what kind of slang is Krimbo?
- The correct answer is weenus for the slang version or the cranial skin.
- So if you're using the metaverse as slang for web three, that's one thing.
- And we wondered, what if Harry's house is just slang for like, oh, this album's dope.
- Because like nobody, nobody was up on slang more than my sister.
- Our first holiday teen slang term is chronica.
- And they even used a kind of semi anglicized slang phrase, Nepmen, The Nepmen.
- If you live with someone who might use a certain slang, you're going to pick up their slang.
Examples
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So I was hoping you could teach me some slang, some American slang.
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Excuse me, Miss Dionne, street slang is an increasingly valid form of expression.
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You have to know who the audience is and slang matters, right?
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No, but I mean his, his, his, his British slang was different than American slang.
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Because like nobody, nobody was up on slang more than my sister.
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It's like slang from an old movie.
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We can have context where we rely upon slang and what was funny.
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The term "hoodie" soon became a slang term itself for the thugs wearing one.
Academic text (2011) -
It first came in in black American slang in 1904 - hip.
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Everyone need to understand the local slang to communicate effectively with the youth.
Synonyms
36
7.8
Words and phrases a group uses that people outside it do not understand
5
7.2
A word or phrase people use in everyday speech, not formal writing
1
9.9
A special way of speaking used by a group so outsiders cannot understand
1
8.7
Informal words and phrases used in a neighborhood, often by young people
1
9.9
Special words used by a group to hide meaning from others
1
9.9
Language that uses many informal words people outside a group may not understand
Antonyms
Compounds
- Slang
2
9.5
An informal word or phrase used in speech by a certain group, not in formal language
- Slang
2
9.9
A kind of slang in which people replace a word with a rhyming phrase and often leave out the rhyme
- Slang
1
9.1
An informal word or phrase used in casual speech, not for formal situations
How Informal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slang may come from an old word like sling, which means 'to throw'. A helpful way to remember this is to think of slang as words that are 'thrown' into speech—quick, informal language used by particular groups and not for formal situations.