Slang \Slang\, n. Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.] --Holland.
Slang \Slang\, n. [Cf. {Sling}.] A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]
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.
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.]
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.
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.
2. To throw; to hurl; to cast. --Addison.
3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
4. (Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
Variety writers and editors also coined the slang words "pushover," "payoff," "freeloader," "chick," "disk jockey" and "whodunit."
Another U.S. banker who also sits on an advisory committee questioned the present committee system: "The Russian slang word for committee roughly translates into a dog with four hind legs," he said.
"Those terms, while they are slang, are like calling folks in the United States `Yanks'," he said.
There are surprising Teutonic twists to the grammar, and the characters utter quirky slang and turns of phrase so authentic-sounding they could either be completely accurate or totally invented.
"The big surprise was that we found out that a lot of the existing translations were glossing over more of the crudities Ibsen was after and more of the slang that he definitely put into the play.
Her act too is littered with the slang of the male locker room.
He hawked newspapers, spoke in colorful New York slang, earned coins as a singing waiter.
Music groups such as Surf Punks and The Surf MCs also have spread the slang.
The process, which covered another 560 miles to the east, is known in Air Force slang as "dragging them across the pond." When the job was done, the KC-135, turned for home.
The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about a ghetto except getting the hell out of one." The comedy show features skits about two "homeboy" thieves who speak in street slang.
It also has its share of run-down neighborhoods populated by violent street gangs, drug dealers, prostitutes and "strawberries," the slang name given to streetwalkers who sell themselves in exchange for drugs.
Just two weeks ago, the FSLIC ("fizzlick," in industry slang) paid out a record $1.35 billion to depositors in two insolvent Southern California S&Ls.
They scream from the "fringe," trade slang for the periods just before and just after the prime morning and evening hours.
Nine mushrooms _ street slang for bystanders who pop up during gunfights _ have been killed this year, including a 3-year-old boy who was shot as he slept this morning.
How long will 'scuzzy' (US slang for filthy) or 'humungous' (colloquial for enormous) last?
The instructor also videotaped Ms. Hayden to help her soften her crude manner and steer clear of slang.
A thick corporate slang can be, as it were, both good Mickey and bad Mickey inside a company.
Watching men and women in suits haggle about stock prices in arb-speak, plus a lot of British slang, might not sound like riveting theater.
Yet the movie doesn't feel fake; characters don't fall into modern slang.
Wear your jimmy hat." The group received complaints that by using the term "jimmy hat" _ slang for condom and also the title of a rap music hit _ the posters spoke specifically to young people and encouraged them to have sex.
Despite warnings that the Cockney slang would prove unintelligible to Americans, the show still airs and has been snapped up by 10 other stations, said Ian Duncan of BBC's commercial arm.
Cronauer passes along his expansive knowledge of American slang to his Vietnamese students, many of whom are middle-aged.
But he says slang shouldn't be used to speak to students, only to listen to them.
The word dadah is Malay slang for drugs.
The name "steam" comes from a Cornish slang word for strong lager.