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
Dorothy was a wholesome young person of clear complexion and straightforward eyes and she spoke with an independence of manner amounting to slanginess.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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 E.M. Delafield
Bettina Vanderpoel, who was the richest and cleverest and most promisingly handsome among them, was colloquial to slanginess, but she had a deep, mellow, child voice and an amazing carriage.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
