A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
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Examples for "slang"
Examples for "slang"
1The ventriloquist of the vernacular on new developments in New Zealand slang.
2Mahony used slang freely, and spoke of Father Butler as Bunsen Burner.
3This represents, for an Englishman, a practically current adaptation of American slang.
4In the UK, it's usually used as in insult, slang for penis.
5He enlightened his auditor greatly in the line of real circus slang.
1It was clear and fairly free of jargon, which was also good.
2In the jargon, they were far from constituting an 'optimal currency area'.
3Jaguar Land Rover Before we continue, a few words about automotive jargon.
4The police jargon for this kind of thing was an asymmetrical situation.
5Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon.
1The deck canted over and Dunstan said, Bring her up a point!
2Larrazabal added: Cant believe they are going to keep playing in Madeira.
3There is too much religious cantinthestatementofMr.Thorburn.
4But lying and snivelling and canting and Hicksing always appear in masquerade.
5The main-mast canted to leeward, and was in imminent danger of falling.
1The vernacular in America, particularly in a business sense, is cautiously professional.
2The ventriloquist of the vernacular on new developments in New Zealand slang.
3The last song may be given in the vernacular as a specimen:
4Compare the origin of the vernacular elementary-school teacher in Germany and England.
5You are correct in saying that racial abuse is infecting the vernacular.
1Why don't all of the PRT team members speak the local lingo?
2A common lingo naturally sprang up like the Pigeon English of China.
3An hour in LA and she was already speaking the local lingo.
4But it wasn't the lingo that got me; it was the voice.
5That's because I know all the gymnastics lingo that my daughters use.
1Havenite patois will work fine, since they won't know the difference anyway.
2I'm not even quite sure what patois is-somesort of meat paste?
3Where fashion patois shines, however, is in the flamboyant expression of sensibility.
4The letter is ill-written and worse spelt, in an extraordinary French patois.
5Their language was a Spanish patois; their voices were sharp and disagreeable.
A secret or private language used by various groups to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.
1Sadie had, in the argot of the day, a really good built.
2The new argot is just a different way of masking old anxieties.
3I forgot that you lived in a world unsullied by such argot.
4He played, drank, talked argot, and cast off every shred of reserve.
5Also now he employed some of the argot of the underworld:
6His simple French, innocent of argot, had a good country twang.
7I detest jargon of every kind, except for sailor's argot and pirate slang.
8This argot had come straight from his graduate school days in the United States.
9So I answered him in the mother argot at a venture, and he bit.
10And I was immediately in danger of drowning in a whirl pool of argot.
11In the criminal argot a counterfeit American twenty-dollar gold piece is called a 'horse.'
12To borrow the current managerial argot, England have been too soft around the edges.
13I wanted to tell him not to use what he evidently thought was thieves' argot.
14I recognized at a glance, in this incomprehensible farrago, the argot of the true alchemist.
15The vilest thoughts, uttered in the low argot of Paris, were much affected by them.
16As I recall, she only spoke French to us, argot at that. Arthur looked stunned.