slang 的 3 个定义
- very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.
- speech and writing characterized by the use of vulgar and socially taboo vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.
- the jargon of a particular class, profession, etc.
- the special vocabulary of thieves, vagabonds, etc.; argot.
- to use slang or abusive language.
- to assail with abusive language.
slang 近义词
casual dialect
更多slang例句
- In the early days, there was a strong Jewish influence, and much of the underworld’s slang is borrowed from Yiddish.
- So he built his own list that includes thousands of proper names, then added to it more slang and contractions to expand it even further.
- Both fintech startups are unicorns—industry slang for private companies valued at $1 billion or more.
- We build our slang, our jokes, our medicine, even our obscenity around the belief that sex and social behavior go together.
- Feel free to use slang with your friends and family, but probably avoid it when you’re communicating with coworkers.
- Not even Radio Bemba (Cuban slang for the rumor mill) had picked up the signal.
- It's a long trip, to be sure, illustrated here with the hypothetical slang "couch."
- “I do all this stuff in the community and the haji mart over there,” he said, using the slang for Iraqis used by U.S. soldiers.
- Jenna and Tamara (Jillian Rose Reed) her best friend, speak almost exclusively in inside jokes and ever-evolving slang.
- To be bad is to be afraid of equality: Behind all the sloganeering and slang, that is the truth of the age.
- She has real pretty manners when she is with them, and really tries not to talk slang.
- She did not powder too much, and she had the latest slang at her pink tongue's tip and was yet moderate in her use of it.
- A well-bred person will take care not to use slang words and expressions.
- Notwithstanding the fact that we owe some of our strongest idioms to slang, the free use of slang always vulgarizes.
- His conversation was at all times interlarded with the slang terms appropriated to the science, to which he was so devoted.
Where does slang come from?
Every single person uses slang in one form or another.
Defined as “very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language,” slang is sorta like the rebellious teen of our vocab.
Appropriately enough, the origin of the word slang is unruly as well. The word is first recorded around 1750–60, and was used early on for the special, secret lingo of the underground, often referred to as thieves’ cant.
One now obsolete theory connected slang to sling, imagining slang as the kind of language that’s tossed or thrown around. Another theory links slang to another sense of slang, meaning a “narrow strip of land,” which became associated with the territory that hawkers traveled and their unique speaking style.
Slang ain’t alone: it finds lots of company in other English words that seem simple but whose origins are not. Discover more in our slideshow “‘Dog,’ ‘Boy,’ And Other Words That We Don’t Know Where They Came From.”