slang

• enPR: slăng, IPA^(key): /slæŋ/
• (US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing) enPR: slăng, IPA^(key): /sleɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪŋ

1756, meaning "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves", origin unknown. Possibly derived from a North Germanic source, related to Norwegian Nynorsk slengenamn (“nickname”), slengja kjeften (“to abuse verbally”, literally “to sling one's jaw”), related to Icelandic slengja (“to sling, throw, hurl”), Old Norse slyngva (“to sling”). Not believed to be connected with language or lingo.

slang (countable and uncountable, plural slangs)

1. Language outside of conventional usage.
2. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
3. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.
   • 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 11

     "Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang."

     "Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?" said Rosamond, with mild gravity.

     "Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class."

     "There is correct English: that is not slang."

     "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

• (jargon): vernacular, jargon, lingo, dialect, cant

• slangwhanger

slang (third-person singular simple present slangs, present participle slanging, simple past and past participle slanged)

1. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2007, p. 26,

     Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman.

• Category:English slang

slang

1. (archaic) simple past tense of sling
   • 1836, Edward Bagnall, Saul and David

     Before he slang the all-deciding stone […]

• slanket

slang (plural slangs)

1. (Britain, dialectal) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

Compare sling.

slang (plural slangs)

1. (Britain, obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
2. (Britain, obsolete, slang) A counterfeit weight or measure.
3. (Britain, obsolete, slang) A travelling show, or one of its performances.
4. (Britain, obsolete, slang) A hawker's license.
5. (Britain, obsolete, slang) A watchchain.

• slang in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• slang in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• slang at OneLook Dictionary Search

The same as sling which is also used in this sense. The vowel exhibits the lowering of /ɪ/ before /ŋ/ distinguishing for African American Vernacular English, as in thang for thing, but the word has spread with this pronunciation outside the accents that exhibit this feature.

slang (third-person singular simple present slangs, present participle slanging, simple past and past participle slanged)

1. (transitive, African American Vernacular, MLE) To sell (especially illegal drugs).
   • 2014, Cdai (lyrics), “Bail Out”, performed by RondoNumbaNine ft. Cdai:

     Everyday I wake up gotta get back to the gwop
     Just another fuckin day in that gangway slangin rocks

   • 2016, TG Millian (lyrics), “Call Me A Spartan”, performed by Harlem Spartans (Blanco, Zico, Bis, TG Millian, MizorMac):

     Whip, whip in the trap do up kitchen that's food (that's food)
     Cookin up grub
     Fuck, these niggas cookin up soup (uhhhhh)
     Slang the crack or the black
     Put the light and dark on the move
     Gold and brown and cute
     Gyal love me and I love them too (too)

   • 2017, Digga D (lyrics), “Next Up?”, performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):

     Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumbling
     They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
     Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
     I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
     

• glans, langs

From Dutch slang (“snake, serpent”), from Middle Dutch slange (“snake, serpent”), from Old Dutch slango (“snake, serpent”), from Proto-Germanic *slangô (“snake, serpent”).

• IPA^(key): [slɑŋ]

slang (plural slange)

1. snake; serpent
   • 1983, E. P. Groenewald et al. (translators), Bybel, Genesis 3:2:

     Die vrou het die slang geantwoord: “Ons mag eet van die vrugte van die bome in die tuin.

     The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden.

• grootslang

Borrowed from English slang. A misnomer.

slang

1. (colloquial, informal) twang, foreign accent

slang

1. (colloquial, informal) (usually of English speakers) Having a regional or foreign accent.

slang m

1. slang

Borrowed from English slang.

slang c (singular definite slangen or slanget, not used in plural form)

1. Language outside of conventional usage, slang.

• slangord
• slangordbog
• slangudtryk

See slange.

slang

1. imperative of slange

From Middle Dutch slange, from Old Dutch slango, from Proto-Germanic *slangô (“snake, serpent”).

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• IPA^(key): /slɑŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɑŋ

slang f (plural slangen, diminutive slangetje n)

1. snake

   Synonym: serpent

   Hypernym: reptiel

2. hose (flexible tube)

• Afrikaans: slang

Borrowed from English slang.

• IPA^(key): /slɛŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

slang n (plural slangs, diminutive slangetje n)

1. language specific to one social group, slang

• glans, langs

From English slang

• IPA^(key): /slaŋɡ/

slang m (plural slangs)

1. English slang

   Twain fut un des premiers auteurs provenant des terres intérieures des États-Unis qui a su capturer la distinction, le slang comique et l'iconoclasme de sa nation.

• argot

• “slang” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Dutch slang.

• IPA^(key): [slɑŋ(ɡ)]

slang f

1. hose (flexible tube)

Borrowed from English slang.

• IPA^(key): [slæŋ(ɡ)]

slang f

1. slang

From English slang

slang m (definite singular slangen)

1. slang (non-standard informal language)

• sjargong

slang

1. imperative of slange

• “slang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English slang

slang m (definite singular slangen)

1. slang (non-standard informal language)

• sjargong

• “slang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From English slang.

• IPA^(key): /slank/

slang m inan

1. slang (jargon or cant)

• slangowy
• slangowo

• slang in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English slang.

• IPA^(key): /slenɡ/

slang n (plural slanguri)

1. slang

• argou

slang c

1. hose, tube, flexible pipe
2. (uncountable) slang (language)

slang

1. (colloquial, informal) A thick foreign accent in English.

   Ayos ka mag-Ingles a, parang Kano, slang na slang!

   That's some English diction you have, like an American, with their accent!

slang c (plural slangen)

1. Alternative form of slange