bahasa gaul
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Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
bahasa (“language”) + gaul (“friendship, socialisation”).
Noun[edit]
- (linguistics) slang,
- language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register,
- the specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group.
Further reading[edit]
- “bahasa gaul” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.