informal vocabulary that is composed typically of new words or meanings, impolite or vulgar references, etc, and that belongs to familiar conversation rather than written language
In the detestable slang of the day we were now both ‘at a deadlock’ — Wilkie Collins
language peculiar to a particular group; argot or jargon
prison slang
(used before a noun) of or belonging to such vocabulary or language
a slang term
slangily adv
slanginess noun
slangy adj
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