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slang
noun
1 slang
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.
synonyms: slang expression, slang term.
Roget 851:
vulgarity,
vulgarism;
barbarism,
Vandalism,
Gothicism†;
mauvis gout [Fr.],
bad taste;
gaucherie,
awkwardness,
want of tact;
ill-breeding
etc.
(discourtesy)
895.
courseness
etc.
adj.†;
indecorum,
misbehavior.
lowness,
homeliness;
low life,
mauvais ton [Fr.],
rusticity;
boorishness
etc.
adj.;
brutality;
rowdyism,
blackguardism†;
ribaldry;
slang
etc.
(neology)
563.
bad joke,
mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].
[Excess of ornament]
gaudiness,
tawdriness;
false ornament;
finery,
frippery,
trickery,
tinsel,
gewgaw,
clinquant†;
baroque,
rococo.
rough diamond,
tomboy,
hoyden,
cub,
unlicked cub†;
clown
etc.
(commonalty)
876;
Goth,
Vandal,
Boeotian;
snob,
cad,
gent;
parvenu
etc.
876;
frump,
dowdy;
slattern
etc.
653.
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Roget 579:
inelegance;
stiffness
etc.
adj.;
unlettered Muse"
[Gray];
barbarism;
slang
etc.
563;
solecism
etc.
568;
mannerism
etc.
(affectation)
855;
euphuism†;
fustian
etc.
577;
cacophony;
words that break the teeth,
words that dislocate the jaw;
marinism†.
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Dutch: jargon, bargoens
2 slang
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).
synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular.
Roget 563:
neology,
neologism;
newfangled expression,
nonce expression;
back-formation;
caconym†;
barbarism.
archaism,
black letter,
monkish Latin.
corruption,
missaying†,
malapropism,
antiphrasis†.
pun,
paranomasia†,
play upon words;
word play
etc.
(wit)
842;
double-entendre [Fr.]
etc.
(ambiguity)
520;
palindrome,
paragram†,
anagram,
clinch;
abuse of language,
abuse of terms.
dialect,
brogue,
idiom,
accent,
patois;
provincialism,
regionalism,
localism;
broken English,
lingua franca;
Anglicism,
Briticism,
Gallicism,
Scotticism,
Hibernicism;
Americanism†;
Gypsy lingo,
Romany;
pidgin,
pidgin English,
pigeon English;
Volapuk,
Chinook,
Esperanto,
Hindustani,
kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin,
macaronics†,
gibberish;
confusion of tongues,
Babel;
babu English†,
chi-chi.
figure of speech
etc.
(metaphor)
521;
byword.
colloquialism,
informal speech,
informal language.
substandard language,
vernacular.
vulgar language,
obscene language,
obscenity,
vulgarity.
jargon,
technical terms,
technicality,
lingo,
slang,
cant,
argot;
St. Gile's Greek,
thieves' Latin,
peddler's French,
flash tongue,
Billingsgate,
Wall Street slang.
pseudology†.
pseudonym
etc.
(misnomer)
565;
Mr.
So-and-so;
wha d'ye call 'em†,
whatchacallim,
what's his name;
thingummy†,
thingumbob;
je ne sais quoi [Fr.].
neologist†,
coiner of words.
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is a specific kind of: non-standard speech.
is a broader term that covers: street name | rhyming slang.
domain member usage: bite | swiz | heist, rip-off | shakedown | power trip | ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup | blowjob, cock sucking | hand job, jacking off, jerking off, wank | dekko | square-bashing | shakedown | caff | deck | gat, rod | Mickey Finn | nick | dreck, schlock, shlock | cert | legs | soup-strainer, toothbrush | arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole | bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly, tummy | niff, pong | corker | hooey, poppycock, stuff, stuff and nonsense | baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle | applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash | skin flick | dibs | bun-fight, bunfight | burnup | nosh-up | hood | 'hood | poor white trash, white trash | honkey, honkie, honky, whitey | Injun, red man, Redskin | hymie, kike, sheeny, yid | Chinaman, chink | dago, ginzo, greaseball, Guinea, wop | Jap, Nip | spic, spick, spik | Boche, Hun, Jerry, Kraut, Krauthead | airhead | bad egg | boffin | butch, dike, dyke | good egg | guvnor | old man | out-and-outer | schlockmeister, shlockmeister | squeeze | suit | tripper | wog | juice | big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks, pile | key | skinful | juice | the shits, the trots | heebie-jeebies, jitters, screaming meemies | bitch | give | buy it, pip out | feel | hoof | chuck, ditch | bunk off, play hooky | square, straight | besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet | can-do | freaky | uncool | butch | grotty | some | mean | bolshy, stroppy | pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off | slam-bang | clean, plum, plumb | drop-dead | bennie, Benzedrine | cat, Caterpillar | cadaver, clay, corpse, remains, stiff | baddie, villain ... show more.
derivation: slangv1 | slangy.
Dutch: Bargoens, argot, boeventaal, dieventaal, groepstaal, jargon, koine, kringtaal, kunsttaal, omgangstaal, slang, spreektaal, vakjargon, vaktaal, volkstaal ... show more
Polish: żargon, argot, slang
verb
1 slang
Use slang or vulgar language.
2 slang
Fool or hoax.
synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, take in.
Dutch: bedotten, beetnemen, foppen, inlappen
3 slang
Abuse with coarse language.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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