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English

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. Language that is 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.


Synonyms


Quotations

Meaning 3:

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."

Translations

jargon See jargon

cant See cant

Verb

  1. In the Context of To vocally abuse, or shout at.
  2. * 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)


Category:Slang| slang

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Czech

Noun

  1. #English|slang


Category:cs:Linguistics

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Nl-slang.ogg
  • IPA: /slɑŋ/


Noun

slang

  1. snake
  2. hose (flexible tube)


See also


Category:Dutch nouns Category:nl:Reptiles

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Romanian

Etymology

slang

Pronunciation

IPA: /slang/

Noun

  1. #English|slang


Declension

Synonyms


Category:ro:Slang|

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Swedish

Noun

slang

  1. hose, tube
  2. #English|slang


af:slang zh-min-nan:slang br:slang el:slang es:slang fa:slang fr:slang fy:slang io:slang it:slang sw:slang ku:slang lt:slang hu:slang nl:slang no:slang pl:slang sk:slang fi:slang sv:slang ta:slang te:slang vi:slang tr:slang zh:slang

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Slang \Slang\,
imp. of Sling. Slung. [Archaic]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Slang \Slang\, n.
Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.]
--Holland.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Slang \Slang\, n. [Cf. Sling.]
A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Slang \Slang\, n. [Said to be of Gypsy origin; but probably from
Scand., and akin to E. sling; cf. Norw. sleng a slinging, an
invention, device, slengja to sling, to cast, slengja kjeften
(literally, to sling the jaw) to use abusive language, to use
slang, slenjeord (ord = word) an insulting word, a new word
that has no just reason for being.]
Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but
unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the
jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low
popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of
sailors, etc.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Slang \Slang\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slanged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slanging.]
To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar
language. [Colloq.]
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Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a
bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat
and challenge him to fisticuffs. --London
Spectator.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sling \Sling\, v. t. [imp. Slung, Archaic Slang; p. p.
Slung; p. pr. & vb. n. Slinging.] [AS. slingan; akin to
D. slingeren, G. schlingen, to wind, to twist, to creep, OHG.
slingan to wind, to twist, to move to and fro, Icel. slyngva,
sl["o]ngva, to sling, Sw. slunga, Dan. slynge, Lith. slinkti
to creep.]
1. To throw with a sling. "Every one could sling stones at an
hairbreadth, and not miss." --Judg. xx. 16.
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2. To throw; to hurl; to cast. --Addison.
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3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
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4. (Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc.,
preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
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WordNet slang
n 1: informal language consisting of words and expressions that
are not considered appropriate for formal occasions;
often vituperative or vulgar; "their speech was full of
slang expressions"
2: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among
thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: cant, jargon,
lingo, argot, patois, vernacular]
v 1: use slang or vulgar language
2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, befool,
cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, {put
one across}]
3: abuse with coarse language
Moby Dictionary
Aesopian language , Babel , Greek , argot , babble , barbarism , bluff ,
bluster , bluster and bluff , bounce , brag , bully , cant , cipher ,
code , colloquialism , common speech , corruption , cryptogram ,
double Dutch , garble , gasconade , gibberish , gift of tongues ,
glossolalia , gobbledygook , hector , illiterate speech , impropriety ,
intimidate , jargon , jargonal , jargonish , jumble , lingo , localism ,
mumbo jumbo , noise , out-herod Herod , patois , patter , phraseology ,
rage , rant , rave , roister , rollick , scatological , scatology ,
scramble , secret language , slangy , splutter , sputter , storm ,
substandard language , swagger , swashbuckle , taboo , taboo language ,
taboo word , vapor , vernacular , vocabulary , vulgar language ,
vulgar tongue , vulgarism , vulgate


FOLDOC S-Lang

A small but highly functional embedded
interpreter. S-Lang was a stack-based postfix language
resembling Forth and BC/DC with limited support for
infix notation. Now it has a C-like infix syntax.
Arrays, stings, integers, floating-point and autoloading
are all suported. The editor JED embeds S-lang.

S-Lang is available under the {GNU Library General Public
License}. It runs on MS-DOS, Unix, and VMS.

Latest version: 0.94, as of 1993-06-12.

(ftp://amy.tch.harvard.edu/).

E-mail: John E. Davis .

(2000-10-30)


FOLDOC SLANG

1. R.A. Sibley. CACM 4(1):75-84 (Jan 1961).

2. Set LANGuage. Jastrzebowski, ca 1990. C extension with
set-theoretic data types and garbage collection. "The SLANG
Programming Language Reference Manual, Version 3.3",
W. Jastrzebowski , 1990.

3. Structured LANGuage. Michael Kessler, IBM. A language
based on structured programming macros for IBM 370 assembly
language. "Project RMAG: SLANG (Structured Language)
Compiler", R.A. Magnuson, NIH-DCRT-DMB-SSS-UG105, NIH, DHEW,
Bethesda, MD 20205 (1980).

4. "SLANG: A Problem Solving Language for Continuous-Model
Simulation and Optimisation", J.M. Thames, Proc 24th ACM Natl
Conf 1969.


SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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