'Slang' definitions:
Definition of 'slang'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: slang, slang expression, slang term]
noun
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular]
verb
Use slang or vulgar language
verb
Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
verb
Abuse with coarse language
Definition of 'Slang'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slang'
From: GCIDE
- Slang \Slang\, n. Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.] --Holland. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slang'
From: GCIDE
- Slang \Slang\, n. [Cf. Sling.] A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slang'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slang'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To throw; to hurl; to cast. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'slang'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Aesopian language,
- argot,
- babble,
- Babel,
- 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,
- Greek,
- 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