The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colloquial \Col*lo"qui*al\, a. [See Colloqui.] Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. -- Col*lo"qui*al*ly, adv.
His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the
highest order.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
adv. In a colloquial manner.
WordNet
adv. with the use of colloquial expressions; "this building is colloquially referred to as The Barn" [syn: conversationally, informally]
Usage examples of "colloquially".
He was down in a subbasement room known colloquially as the Tank because its metal walls were dotted with electronic noisemakers to foil other electronic devices.
Teacher, the imposing strength of the KK-drive field shunted itself and everything contained within it from ordinary space into that strange region of compacted reality known colloquially as space-plus.
Instead they got all their electronic information from the two circling E-2C air surveillance aircraft, known colloquially as Hummers, whose radars swept a circle over four hundred miles across.
Ivo had not heard Groton speak that colloquially before, and he took it as another indication of strain.
Too often, what increased was their resentment against women for the additional burden of bureaucratic micromanaging and official harassments collectively and colloquially known as "Mickey Mouse.
Elias Madero came out of FTL flight, retranslating to normal space, to traverse the real-space distance between two jump points in the same system, colloquially known as Twobits.