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Describing bebop talk
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slangy
Alternative clues for the word slangy
Word definitions for slangy in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang; "a slangy expression"; "slangy speech"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, from slang (n.) + -y (2). Related: Slanginess . Slangular (1852) also was tried.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slangy \Slang"y\, a. Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang. [Written also slangey .]
Usage examples of slangy.
But who was he, Enderby, to adapt a great tragedy to the limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players?
Zeldo and a couple of other slangy pizza-eating beards from America had laid claim to one end of Building 1 and set up their own little outpost of heavy metal music and novelty foam-rubber sledgehammers for pounding on their workstations when they got frustrated.
Thomas Pynchon uses names like Oedipa Maas and Pig Bodine (where the effect is slangy, jivey, cartoonish).