Example sentences for: slang

How can you use “slang” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There are a few remnants of pig-Latin, as in oofterpa for Poofter `homosexual' and opsca for cops . At times, Thirty-five offers examples of the extended use of this slang, as when describing a theft from a prostitute's client:

  • Earlier, J. C. Hotten's Slang Dictionary suggested it might be a corruption of contentious . Most dictionaries today accept the theory that it arose from a Middle English word conteck `quarrelling' or `contention.

  • As a librarian I see evidence every day of this ambivalence in the slang used by patrons and colleagues.

  • Some computer slang suggests a love-fear conflict.

  • While the name does have a little currency as a slang term or euphemism for oral sex--more than I thought when I spoke to the New York Post --I agree that it won't have much staying power.


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