Example sentences for: slang

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

  • It is many years since my contemporaries and I got a kick out of seeing even the bowdlerized f**k in print (in Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 1935), and fug in Mailer's The Naked and the Dead allowed prudery to mock itself.

  • happening (1) US teenage slang.

  • I am using the word slang as it is defined on page xi in the latest scholarly dictionary of American slang, J.E. Lighter's Random House Dictionary of American Slang , Volume I, A-G (1994): an informal, nonsubstandard, nontechnical vocabulary composed chiefly of novel-sounding synonyms for standard words and phrases.

  • It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.

  • Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang provides a citation for the similar form yatata yatata yatata from the play Jim Dandy : A Fat Man in a Famine (1947) by William Saroyan.


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