slang

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[edit] English

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1756, origin unknown.

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slang (uncountable)

  1. Language outside of conventional usage.
  2. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
  3. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch
      "Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang."
      "Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?" said Rosamond, with mild gravity.
      "Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class."
      "There is correct English: that is not slang."
      "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

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slang (third-person singular simple present slangs, present participle slanging, simple past and past participle slanged)

  1. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
    • 1888, Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)

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slang m.

  1. slang

[edit] Dutch

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From Middle Dutch slange, from Old Dutch slango, from Proto-Germanic *slangô (snake, serpent).

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slang f. (plural slangen, diminutive slangetje)

  1. snake
  2. hose (flexible tube)

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From English slang

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slang m. (plural slangs)

  1. English slang
    Twain fut un des premiers auteurs provenant des terres intérieures des États-Unis qui a su capturer la distinction, le slang comique et l'iconoclasme de sa nation.

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From Dutch.

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  • IPA: [slɑŋ(ɡ)]

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slang f.

  1. hose (flexible tube)

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From English.

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  • IPA: [slæŋ(ɡ)]

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slang f.

  1. slang

[edit] Romanian

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English slang

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  • IPA: /slanɡ/

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slang n. (plural slanguri)

  1. slang

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slang c.

  1. hose, tube, flexible pipe
  2. (uncountable) slang (language)

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slang

  1. (colloquial, informal) A thick foreign accent in English.
    Ayos ka mag-Ingles a, parang Kano, slang na slang!
    That´s some English diction you have, like an American, with their accent!
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