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But Chris Rock has no shame in starting his new film, “Misty Green,” with a definition splayed across the screen—in this case a slangy one of the phrase “the bag.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The twee levels are off the charts, and there’s no amount of vintage sweaters and slangy lingo that can make playing the clarinet cool, despite Decker’s best efforts and Joe’s claims otherwise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
These guys speak in slangy lingo, such as “Strike straight,” that reveals their need for a melded identity in their rebellious attitude toward life.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
The slangy lyrics had the vibrancy of the suburbs, but they were as poetic as they were acidic, with that French fixation on what de Pretto calls “the weight of the word.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2021
He was forever dropping slangy terms into his sentences like dumplings in a pot.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Mr. Lovano is a slangier, less fastidious, more impulsive improviser than Mr. Hersch, and they seemed a classic odd couple during the set’s opener, “A Lark.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013
Kerry Michael's funkier, slangier paraphrase of that pronouncement augurs well for his production.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2010
“Dear me, Jennie,” admonished The Fox, “you are getting slangier every day.”
From Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans by Alice B. Emerson
Sometimes it feels like we must be the snarkiest, slangiest, least-formal generation in human history.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2014
But with equal ease Anouilh goes in for every approach, from the slangiest to the most sculptured.
From Time Magazine Archive
The amateur detective duo at their slangiest, most exuberant.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Then, to quote my slangiest pupil again—good-night!" and Nelson went away cheerfully to greet several of the young men of the town grouped on the other side of the wharf.
From The Mission of Janice Day by Corinne Turner
Whereupon Natalie took pains to confide to anyone who would listen to her that she thought Lola Elster the rudest, slangiest person she had ever had the misfortune to meet.
From Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore by Pauline Lester
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