slang
slang is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.imp. of Sling. Slung. [Archaic]
- 2.Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.] Holland.
- 3.A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]
- 4.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.
- 5.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abrupt
- abuse
- accent
- affectation
- affected
- ambiguity
- anagram
- antiphrasis
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- artificial
- awkward
- babu
- barbarism
- barbarous
- black
- break
- brogue
- broken
- byword
- cacophony
- call
- cant
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- confusion
- corruption
- crude
- dialect
- dislocate
- dog
- double
- dry
- euphuism
- euphuistic
- expression
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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