slang

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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" [syn: {slang}, {slang expression}, {slang
         term}]
    2: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among
       thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: {slang}, {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},
       {slang}, {befool}, {cod}, {fool}, {put on}, {take in}, {put
       one over}, {put one across}]
    3: abuse with coarse language
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slang \Slang\,
   imp. of {Sling}. Slung. [Archaic]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slang \Slang\, n.
   Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.]
   --Holland.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slang \Slang\, n. [Cf. {Sling}.]
   A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
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.
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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 <[email protected]>, 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.
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "slang":
      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
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