Slang
WordNet
noun
(1) A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"They don't speak our lingo"
(2) Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar
"Their speech was full of slang expressions"
verb
(3) Abuse with coarse language
(4) Fool or hoax
"The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"
"You can't fool me!"
(5) Use slang or vulgar language
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Language outside of conventional usage.
- Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
- The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch
- "Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang."
- "Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?" said Rosamond, with mild gravity.
- "Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class."
- "There is correct English: that is not slang."
- "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch
Verb
- To vocally abuse, or shout at.
- 1888: Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)