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: an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech
slanged; slanging; slangs
: to use slang or vulgar abuse
: to abuse with harsh or coarse language
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Noun
tends to use too much hacker's slang when talking to coworkers about their computer problems
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Kyra Davis Lurie
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Boasting co-signs from global icons like J Balvin and Dua Lipa, the Santiago native has parlayed the freshness of Chilean slang into the mainstream reggaeton lexicon, and an eagerness to reconnect with his African roots is also spurring curiosity and constant innovation.
—Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
Jackson Hole is on Sixty-fourth now, and teen-agers still pass through there, speaking a different slang.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
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Noun
Twain dared to buck the expectations of critics by using the colloquial dialect and slang of those with little education.
—Kyra Davis Lurie
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Some stems from that, and then some stems from being around Pacific Islanders all day and other Samoans and Hawaiians and different dialects and different slang.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 11 June 2025
Boasting co-signs from global icons like J Balvin and Dua Lipa, the Santiago native has parlayed the freshness of Chilean slang into the mainstream reggaeton lexicon, and an eagerness to reconnect with his African roots is also spurring curiosity and constant innovation.
—Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2025
Jackson Hole is on Sixty-fourth now, and teen-agers still pass through there, speaking a different slang.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
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“Slang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slang. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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