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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slangy

Slangy \Slang"y\, a. Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang. [Written also slangey.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slangy

1822, from slang (n.) + -y (2). Related: Slanginess. Slangular (1852) also was tried.

Wiktionary
slangy

a. Including or given to slang.

WordNet
slangy

adj. constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang; "a slangy expression"; "slangy speech"

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).