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slangy

/slang-ee/US // ˈslæŋ i //

俚语,俚俗的,俚俗,俚语连篇

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    slang·i·er, slang·i·est.

    • : of, of the nature of, or containing slang: a slangy expression.
    • : using much slang: slangy speech.

Examples

  • He offers to drop the price for the uranium from €100 million to €20 million in slangy, uneducated Russian.

  • The subjects themselves seem to call forth a cheap, slangy vocabulary and the vulgar phrases of sporting life.

  • Bill, to use a terse but slangy term, proceeded to go up in the air.

  • The language they use is not only ungrammatical but oftentimes both slangy and profane.

  • Akin to this is fashionably slangy conversation concerning the latest thing in books, magazine articles, trivial plays.

  • She was direct of speech, frank, and often slangy when slang best expressed her meaning.