noun. A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect.

noun. Language peculiar to a group; argot or jargon.

intransitive verb. To use slang.

intransitive verb. To use angry and abusive language.

intransitive verb. To attack with abusive language; vituperate.

noun. An obsolete or archaic preterit of sling.

noun. Among London costermongers, a counterfeit weight or measure.

noun. Among showmen: A performance.

noun. A traveling booth or show.

noun. A hawker's license: as, to be out on the slang (that is, to travel with a hawker's license).

To use slang; employ vulgar or vituperative language.

To address slang or abuse to; berate or assail with vituperative or abusive language; abuse; scold.

noun. A watch-chain.

noun. plural Legirons or fetters worn by convicts.

noun. A narrow piece of land. Also slanket.

noun. The cant words or jargon used by thieves, peddlers, beggars, and the vagabond classes generally; cant.

noun. In present use, colloquial words and phrases which have originated in the cant or rude speech of the vagabond or unlettered classes, or, belonging in form to standard speech, have acquired or have had given them restricted, capricious, or extravagantly metaphorical meanings, and are regarded as vulgar or inelegant.

noun. Synonyms Slang, Colloquialism, etc. See cant.

imp. of sling. Slung.

noun. Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

noun. A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

noun. 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

transitive verb. To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.

noun. Language outside of conventional usage.

noun. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.

noun. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.

verb. To vocally abuse, or shout at.

verb. use slang or vulgar language

noun. informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar

noun. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

verb. fool or hoax

verb. abuse with coarse language

"One of the aspects of coolness they note in slang is a playfulness, a sense of fun with the language."

center slang  riming slang  

slanged  slanging  

abuse  blackguard  clapperclaw  non-standard speech  shout  

Chang  Fang  Hang  Kuomintang  Lang  

allusion  anecdote  argot  buffoonery  cant  

Aesopian language  Babel  Greek  argot  babble  

sling  

slanged  slanging  slangs  

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