Slang

//slæŋ//

"Slang" in a Sentence (28 examples)

Don't use slang if you can help it.

It's fun to learn slang words in foreign languages.

We really need more American slang on Tatoeba, stat!

We really need more American slang on Tatoeba, pronto!

Because Chinese blogs use a lot of slang, I usually don't understand them that well, but I still think it's good for my Chinese.

What's your favorite slang expression?

Originally, French was slang.

Mary presented a provocative thesis: "Slang is becoming the new English."

"How's the trouble and strife?" is an example of a sentence using Cockney rhyming slang.

"How's the trouble and strife?" is an example of a sentence using Cockney rhyming slang. It means "How's your wife?"

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She was amused by his talk, which was simple, straightforward, rather humorous and keen, and interspersed with homely expressions of a style which is sometimes called slang.

English-speaking Australians have always had a love affair with slang.

After years when I met a friend inside the aircraft and could sense stiffness in the conversation, a whiff of mild slang was the ice breaker, followed by loads of campus nostalgia.

"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."

[F]or a detailed analysis see Liberman (2008 157ff) who sees it as one of a number of terms found in pan-European slangs meaning concealment and/or cheating.

Anyway, I have learned many slangs while I am in New York, and one of them, a remarkable slang, is sheister.

The internet comes up with so many slangs used by people to survive in the online world. Many of those slangs are in the form of abbreviations, for instance, the word "u" which refers to "you"[.]

More importantly and closer to life, slangs help build an instant intimacy and informality.

Such attempts were made even more aggressive by the fact that these local women were known for picking fights easily and using slangs to verbally abuse their neighbours.

Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman.

Stephen feared that he would yell louder, and was hostile. But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls …

"If they had been a row of his favorite Pressmen he could not have slanged them worse."

Before he slang the all-deciding stone[…]

There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out~thrust tongue.

Everyday I wake up gotta get back to the gwop Just another fuckin day in that gangway slangin rocks

Whip, whip in the trap do up kitchen that's food (that's food) Cookin up grub Fuck, these niggas cookin up soup (uhhhhh) Slang the crack or the black Put the light and dark on the move Gold and brown and cute Gyal love me and I love them too (too)

Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumbling They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby

Bro is in the kitchen, know he can’t cook He is whipping shit that we use to slang This fat prick wanna chat on YouTube still had to cheat to deny he’s gang

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