s-lang

Slang \Slang\,
   imp. of {Sling}. Slung. [Archaic]
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Slang \Slang\, n.
   Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.]
   --Holland.
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Slang \Slang\, n. [Cf. {Sling}.]
   A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]
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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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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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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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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.
    

S-Lang

   <language> 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 <[email protected]>.

   (2000-10-30)
    

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