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