slang
noun
very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
Example Sentences
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Below this, there's a slangily American injunction to "Think Different."
From Time Magazine Archive
But Shaw did not solve his problem of making Joan personally real by making her slangily realistic and outwardly much like other people.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Aw, come off!" slangily replied the brass-buttoned boy, one of many in the hotel employed to show guests to their rooms whenever summoned by a bell rung by the clerk.
From The Boy from the Ranch Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences by Frank V. Webster
Like the word “mouse” in domestic scenes, the cry of “Bear!” in ruder surroundings “always gets a rise out of the girls,” as Chet Belding slangily expressed it.
From The Girls of Central High in Camp Or, the Old Professor's Secret by Gertrude W. Morrison
Boy, did we ever put our heads together in corridor four and decide that we would have to put you in your place right away,” she continued slangily.
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Annie Roe Carr
