Example sentences for: slangy

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

  • These slangy expressions meet Nash's standard of conciseness in that they are pointed come-backs to a situation or a remark.

  • And if agenseeing is too far-fetched and pedantic, so long is a shade too informal, slangy.

  • Highlighting is a natural and favored component, as in the fondness for abbreviations, acronyms, capital letters, telescoping, emoticons, interjections, and other striking visual devices, not to mention their frequently slangy ( plunk I just put you in my killfile) or vulgar ( RTFM Read the fucking manual) content, as well as onomatopoeic renditions ( bang common spoken name for !).

  • An informal, slightly irreverent name, corresponding to such slangy American contractions as Chi, Philly, and Frisco, that spans the official mutations is Piter (pronounced roughly like English Peter ).

  • All three developed from the Russian pede , a slangy contraction of pederast , which was borrowed from the Greek by way of French.


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