SLANG
\slˈaŋ], \slˈaŋ], \s_l_ˈa_ŋ]\
Definitions of SLANG
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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abuse with coarse language
By Princeton University
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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"
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abuse with coarse language
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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imp. of Sling. Slung.
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Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
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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.
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To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
By Oddity Software
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imp. of Sling. Slung.
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Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
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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.
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To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
By Noah Webster.
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Vulgar language; a popular but unauthorized expression; an ordinary word that has acquired a certain meaning, perhaps quite apart from its usual one, and that is in popular, but inelegant, use.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Inelegant and unauthorized popular language.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A conversational expression of an irregular, more or less vulgar, type, familiar to and in vogue among a class.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Of sling, which see.
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Literally, the language of the gipsies; a name applied to those familiar and pithy words and phrases, both coarse and refined, which have their origin by accident or caprice, in use by persons in every grade of life, rich and poor, and which float about and change with fashion and taste, but not without leaving permanent and recognised additions to the language.
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Did sling.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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