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It's spoken from the hip?
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slang
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" Slang " is a 1996 song by British rock band Def Leppard from their gold album Slang . It reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart . The song is the only one from its parent album to be played after the Slang World Tour of 1996 to 1997, with Def Leppard performing ...
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Slang \Slang\, n. [Cf. Sling .] A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]
Usage examples of slang.
Slang for malicious software, a computer program, such as a virus, worm, or Trojan Horse, that performs damaging tasks.
One was when I heard you slanging me to Lady Samplar, and I suddenly felt hopelessly cut off from my kind.
Kate Croy assisted with the cool controlled facility that went so well, as the others said, with her particular kind of good looks, the kind that led you to expect the person enjoying them WOULD dispose of disputations, speculations, aspirations, in a few very neatly and brightly uttered words, so simplified in sense, however, that they sounded, even when guiltless, like rather aggravated slang.
He was pleasantly surprised to learn that slang could be a rich and inventive vocabulary on its own, rather than the sublingual resort of the inarticulate he had been taught it was.
Elward was as always talking that White Castle-Plaquemine coonass slang.
When it is remembered how near Eton is to London, and how frequent the communication, it will appear astonishing, but highly creditable to the authorities, that so little of the current slang of the day is to be met with here.
While Andy enjoyed battling with the thick Glaswegian slang, ultimately he was very relieved to get back into the Corps.
The Englishman, one of the few remaining intellectuals of his race, compensated for the severe study of physics by a scarcely less devoted research into the history of English expletives and slang, delighting to treat his colleagues to the fruits of his toil.
The janitorial staff was composed mainly of offenders sentenced off-Earth: offies in the current slang.
One of them, the Book of Esther, is the original whole megillah in the slang sense.
She is discussed by her dear friends with all the genteelest slang in vogue, with the last new word, the last new manner, the last new drawl, and the perfection of polite indifference.
Three men, armed with guns and looking like banditti, came in shortly after I had gone to bed, speaking a kind of slang which I could not make out, swearing, raging, and paying no attention to me.
This sort of slang, therefore, technical in origin, the natural efflorescence of highly cultivated agilities of brain, and hand, and eye, is worthy of all commendation.
McCoy had called it, and at the old, old Starfleet slang Arrhae/Terise had laughed out loud for the first time since he came into the house.
The linguist will find the language of the book rich in slang - the general argot of the day, the cant of army life, and the specialised Hindu and Tamil dialects and bastardised English that came to be used by both the English army and their servants in colonial India.