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noun

Slang n. Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. (Local, Eng.)

Slang n. A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. (Eng.)

Slang n. 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.

verb

Slang v. t. (past & past part. slanged; pres. part. 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."

Sling v. t. (past slung, archaic slang; past part. slung; pres. part. slinging)

To throw with a sling. "Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss."

To throw; to hurl; to cast.

To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.

(Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.

Slang v. Imp. of Sling. Slung. (Archaic)

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"Slang" Quotes from Famous Books

... to steal from an unkind world, but he does not like the idea that she has slaved for him without any help in return. Katie did not prove to be a good pupil. She was not naturally "wise," in the slang sense, but gained what she gained by hard labour. Even while she was housekeeper for the old guy she felt she earned all the ...

— An Anarchist Woman • Hutchins Hapgood

... in upon you, but I saw you from afar, and you looked awfully good to me." Her clear enunciation made the slang phrase sound like the purest English. "I have just been with your principal in her office. She told me to come here and look over the list of subjects. Do you think me unpardonably rude?" She looked appealingly at the ...

— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower

... educated, for he has used the usual business formulas, 'on receipt of this,' and 'advices received,' which I won't merely say I don't use, but which few but commercial men use. Next, here's a man who uses slang, not only ineptly, but artificially, to give the letter the easy, familiar turn it hasn't from beginning to end. I need only say, my dear Stacy, that I don't write slang to you, but that nobody who understands slang ever writes it in that way. And then the knowledge of my opinion of Barker is ...

— The Three Partners • Bret Harte

... use a phrase which he himself would not have used, for he avoided the use of slang—"given himself away." Over his lantern-shaped face, across his thin, determined mouth, there had still lingered a trace of the supercilious smile with which he had been looking round him. And, as he had helped Mrs. Archdale into the compartment, as he indicated to her the comfortable ...

— Studies in love and in terror • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... yet permitted to continue in his responsible office. A trait, after the manner of the find in the Lido, forces itself upon me here. It was to this man that some youthful colleagues in the hospital adapted the then popular slang of that day: "No Goethe has written that," "No Schiller composed ...

— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud

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