Words similar to slang

Example sentences for: slang

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Slang is a reliable gauge of attitudes because it is usually used in an unguarded way to express unedited feelings.
While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (a marshy place) as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.
Other prison slang words and phrases were possibly invented merely to confound eavesdroppers.
Technical language develops among specialists for the purpose of cooperation; slang develops among associates for purposes of expressiveness, companionability and to some extent exclusivity.
Jonathon Green has deservedly acquired the mantle of Eric Partridge as the foremost authority on British slang.