Example sentences for: slang

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

  • His books are many; listed on the back flap of the dustjacket of this book are the Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, The Slang Thesaurus, Neologisms: New Words Since 1960, Slang Down the Ages: The Historical Development of Slang , and The Dictionary of Jargon .

  • Moreover, Slang and Its Analogues is attributed to John S. Farmer and W. E. “Hurley,” the latter's name being, properly, Henley.

  • Other quizzes “test” the knowledge of the reader's knowledge of gay, black, or carnival slang, of the origins of certain words ( topaz matches up with “Greek for `conjecture' because they could only guess where it came from”), some of tautological clichés (like beck and --), others of nautical jargon, euphemisms, numerical allusions, Yankee dialect, and so forth.

  • It is not in the slightest way suggested that picking up citations from other works is in any way curious or reprehensible—anyone would be a fool to research any subject without relying on the scholarship that has gone before—but one would have expected the DARE to be found among books like Farmer and Henley's Dictionary of Slang and Its Analogues , Chapman's New Dictionary of Slang , Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang , and the others listed.

  • Slang from Greyfriars


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