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
The information thus tersely rapped out by Lily, and which drew down upon the head of that young person a mild maternal rebuke for slanginess, had sent his mind up at the rebound.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram
The independence of Miss Plumtree's manner, as well as a new and strange slanginess developed both by her and by little Miss Anthony, was noted by their old companions without enthusiasm.
From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.
Her former slanginess, and other amenities and ideas begotten of Siege House, were to her now quite of the past, so effective had been recent influences to refine and soften her.
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
