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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Words fumble through fog, or have a dated slanginess which, lacking all poetry, sinks almost to parody: You're the goods, Kid .
From Time Magazine Archive
The blog posts astonished him, they seemed so American and so alien, the irreverent voice with its slanginess, its mix of high and low language, and he could not imagine her writing them.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“She’s dead sore on Joe Maroni and his tribe, just the same,” declared Agnes, proving the truth of her sister’s accusation as to her slanginess.
From The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Grace Brooks Hill
As Bob with regrettable slanginess, but crisp brevity, summed up the case: “They had thought to make a quick touch and getaway, but fell down doing it.”
From Bert Wilson at the Wheel by J. W. Duffield
He was the livelier of the two, and affected a slanginess of dress and talk and manner, a certain "horsey" style, very different from his elder brother's studied respectability of costume and bearing.
From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
