1. 'Chicken' is slang for someone who isn't very brave.

2. 'The nick' is a slang term for 'prison'.

3. "Ruby Murray" is rhyming slang for "curry".

4. There's a lot of slang in this passage.

5. In Cockney rhyming slang, 'apples and pears' means 'stairs'.

6. "Old man" is a slang term for "father".

7. Most slang has short currency.

8. language and slang is hard to define.

9. The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.

10. He notices some slang that was headlined in the newspapers recently.

11. The manual is full of the jargon and slang of self-improvement courses.

12. In Cockney rhyming slang, you say 'apples and pears' to mean 'stairs'.

13. Ours is slang for a police cell.

14. Have you not heard the slang term posh, Watson?

15. Chameau, camel, was slang for an old courtesan.

16. "Baloney" is US slang for nonsense.

17. "Shepherd" was a slang term for a spy.

18. "Bladdered" is slang for "drunk".

19. There is nothing wrong with using slang.

20. Anne: In cockney rhyming slang what is tomfoolery?

21. A tea leaf was a thief, in rhyming slang.

22. Bill already knows grass is slang for marijuana.

23. Slang words are often ephemeral.

24. These are stuffed full of technical slang about the plane your flying and the sort of weapons it uses.

25. The slang term square might convey an impression which includes the suit, crew-cut and tie.

26. We settled down to a quiet discussion of English slang.

27. Archie liked to think he kept up with current slang.

28. Here was a type of the travelling canvasser for a manufacturing house -- a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day " drummers.

29. Winslow wrote, chose the records, and gave the deejay a name, Poppa Stoppa, based on local slang.

30. Much of the comedy is slapstick and loaded with black slang.

1. 'Chicken' is slang for someone who isn't very brave.

2. The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.

31. Often current slang and colloquialisms make up the bulk of such people's language.

32. Black children from middle-class or affluent families, they say, are more apt to adopt what is commonly called black slang.

33. He kept a notebook full of characters' names, prospective titles and slang.

34. No dictionary can really capture something as fleeting and ephemeral as slang.

35. I remember thinking that use of rhyming slang was going to help clear matters up in no time.

35. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

36. I'd be doing rhyming slang if I didn't watch out.

37. Most of the phrases the students came up with were jingles and slang.

38. Their exchanges are filled with hesitations, contractions, slang and prejudice, as well as the strange poetry of profanity.

39. Sure, there were some differences due to regional slang and accents.

40. I was totally confused by the slang that the other kids were using.

41. However, do avoid the use of slang or dialect expressions unless the context calls directly for such deviations from normal speech.

42. Once he started transmitting he couldn't help using all that C.B slang, even in an emergency.

43. In matters of diction, the author has a taste for folksy slang.

44. Slang is almost by definition undefinable, deliberately outside the dictionary.

45. The name, by the way, is Louisiana slang for one of its chief seafood products, crawfish.

46. Slang is part of casual, informal styles of language use.

47. These terms do not carry negative connotations; however, for convenience we will continue to use the popular term slang.

48. In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others.

49. 'Doolally', meaning 'crazy', is 19th century soldiers' slang, and comes from the name of an Indian town.

50. Two hundred years ago it was their slang word for gourd.

51. Yet when I came to think about it, it was only the slang that I didn't quite understand.

52. He somehow seemed familiar with the jokes that the young were making and used their slang.

53. To eliminate or locate colloquial words there are dictionaries of slang.

54. Kite – UK slang term for a check.

55. Slang had been a principal component of his rattling.

56. Read on, to learn more about Cockney rhyming slang.

57. " Brass " is slang for " money ".

58. Dirty rat: slang for a bad person.

59. A slang term for an uneducated or unsophisticated investor.

60. Slang term relating to malfunction of computer program.

61. Beef – slang term for a dispute.

62. Heaps : slang word meaning a lot.

63. His slang was the lingua franca.

64. Slang An insipid or ill-natured person.

65. If you prune away the slang, your speech will be improved.

66. In golfing slang, a ball half-buried in a sand bunker is called a "fried egg."

67. Other terms that can be used for masturbation include self-pleasuring, self-pleasing, self-loving, and several slang terms.

68. A couple of hundred years ago, England sent its prisoners to Australia to live out their prison sentences. Many people say Strine rhyming slang is evidence of Australia's convict past!

69. Etymonline agrees with the slang origin but also offers a couple of words from Scottish dialect and French that could have lead to bamboozle.

70. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their presence.

71. His frequent use of slang threw the students into mental confusion.

72. Teenage slang, said Mr Sonnenfeldt firmly,[] “could hardly be the vocabulary word of an amnesiac.”

73. However diligently Wilson practised, the slang phrase sounded unnaturally on his lips.

74. Some say its name comes from the Zulu language, others that it derives from township slang.

75. This paper aims to discuss the different types of the patterns of word-formation and focus on the playful, elliptical vivid and euphemistic characteristics of English slang.

76. In The Oxford English Dictionary the term gun moll is said to be American slang for a female thief or an armed woman.

77. Slang One that is suggestive of a genetic mutant, as in bizarre appearance, inaptitude, or genesis in an unhealthy environment.

78. In order for slang to be slangy, it has to have a feeling of perpetual newness.

79. Although a great deal of the time she was full of false heartiness, jollying one along with mannish slang ('Buck up, old chap! '

80. A rough, violent person who engages in destructive actions: mug, roughneck , rowdy, ruffian, tough. Informal toughie. Slang hood, punk.

81. Etymology: This phrase comes from World War II US Army slang.

82. The borderline between informal language and slang is hard to define.

83. It sounds inoffensive but it's actually rhyming slang for something rude.

84. Therefore, slang translation involves not only rendering lexical meaning , but achieving facsimile of culture.

85. Each sub-group of American society-from teenagers to soldiers to thieves to ethnic groups-has its own slang.

86. English rhyming slang is gaining popularity throughout English speaking countries, especially among youngsters, with its obscurity and implicitness.

87. Thus, San Francisco rapper E-40's call for listeners to "get hyphy" (go crazy) may be heard as "get high fee" (be charged a lot of money) by those who don't know that regional slang expression.

88. LL: Right. To conk out is slang for falling into a deep sleep.

89. Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.

90. In American English, Slang mingled with jargon and Colloquialism, but they are different from each other.

91. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a heterosexual person.

92. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for an Irishman.

93. The anguish languishing lady sang a slang m é lange plangently.

94. Dork means someone who is not cool or popular and is a good example of slang.

95. Jo does use such slang words! ' observed Amy with a reproving look at the long figure stretched on the rug.

95. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

96. But it has been African - American slang since at least the 1960 s, OED researchers found.

97. Fish and Parcels is the slang name for the District Line .

98. The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a pennon who spends leisure –time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes" .

99. His slang dated from before the war. 'Everything tickety-boo?' Yes, she would nod.

100. Old man this year quick 27, the age is not small, the slang said: When the afternoon market meat the bean curd sells.

101. This slang expression was reportedly derived from Canadian Tire trademarks.

102. During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among younger, educated circles to misspell words intentionally, then abbreviate them and use them as slang when talking to one another.

103. Those "new" words in 1806 included slang, surf, psychology and, naturally, Americanize.

104. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a woman.

105. Maybe you have social faults such as snobbishness, talkativeness , using slang, etc. , which drive away your new acquaintances.

106. In Japan the fetishistic love for two-dimensional characters is enough of a phenomenon to have earned its own slang word, moe, homonymous with the Japanese words for "burning" or "budding."

107. Slang: Nonstandard vocabulary of informality, usually not limited to any region.

108. But then I found in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang a very similar entry supposedly dating from the 1980s in Britain.

109. As a patois , or colloquial , slang is permeated with rich local color and flavor.

110. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Latin American, especially a Mexican.

111. The OED says this form of slug a slang usage, not tracing the origin.

112. Year by year a few of these slang terms prove so useful that they graduate into respectable society.

113. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for an Italian or a person of Italian descent.

114. The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city.

115. Hemp is the male plant and it grows like a weed, hence the slang term.

116. End line: A boom or spike that hits an opponent in the face ( slang ).

117. But the American Heritage Dictionary says gun moll is based on obsolete British slang.

118. Don't overcorrect by using made-up words like waitron or co-opting an in-group's slang or usage—no matter how well-meaning you are or how hip you want to appear.

119. The teacher hauled him up for using such a slang expression in an essay.

120. But etymonline offers two other possibilities, a slang expression "fire a slug" that used to mean take a drink, or from Irish slog that meant swallow.

121. The life of slang is now shorter than ever, say linguists, and what was once a reliable code for identifying members of an in-group or subculture is losing some of its magic.

122. GIGO: Short for Garbage in, garbage out. Programmer's slang to describe bad output caused by faulty data.

123. Word expert Charles Funk says an eighteen seventy-four publication called the Slang Dictionary explains throwing in the towel.

124. Some rhyming slang only works in specific countries or regions where the local accent can rhyme in a way that would not normally work in other regions.

125. Wetware ---- Slang for human beings ---- part of the environment that also includes hardware and software. Also called liveware.

126. In describing Americans Soldiers in slang , we often refers to GI ( Government Issue ) , Yank, and Cowboy.

127. Slang To solicit customers. Used of a pimp or prostitute.

128. Do not use obscenities, slang or too many idiomatic expression when using an interpreter.

129. LL: Right . To conk out is about + blank slang for falling into a deep sleep.

130. So a consignment is just like being a distributor. You know, a slang word for distributor is "middle man."

131. There is no question among any of the etymological dictionaries as to the fact that snafu comes from a military slang.

132. The word has been elevated from the status of slang to colloquialism.

133. In some instances, the pregnancy that occurs is what is known by the slang name of IUD pregnancy.

134. Slang A shot of hard liquor , sometimes accompanied by a beer chaser.

135. A slang term used to describe a rapid advance in prices within the commodities market.

136. Fish and Parcels is the slang name for the District Line. It should be Pony and Trap.

137. Pucks – A slang word for the game of ice hockey.

138. Both colloquial usage and slang are more common speech than in writing.

139. A slang term a high - risk bond a high return but is considered to a dubious backing.

140. The Mitsubishi Pajero is a sport-utility vehicle whose name pajero is, coincidentally enough, a slang term for "wanker" in some varieties of Spanish.

141. Slang, referring to an antiquated computer; any obsolete data processing equipment.

142. As opposed to the uncorrupted purism of my grandmother, Mama's language was the loosest popular slang.

143. Liveware ---- A slang term for people, to distinguish them from hardware, software, and firmware. Also called wetware.

144. Australians love wordplay and have slang words for every occasion.

145. Now, shanzhai has become slang for anything modelled on a western product but tweaked for local consumption.

146. House – The slang term for the bookmaker , sportsbook or betting establishment that offers betting lines.

147. Be honest, use proper grammar and avoid slang and expletives.

148. May be you have social faults such as snobbishness, talkativeness and using slang etc. which drive away your new acquaintances.

149. Cockneys traditionally speak in a rhyming slang which supposedly originated among barrow boys who didn't want their customers to understand what they said to each other.

150. A formal dictionary will only take you so far—and will usually stop short when you need the definition of a catchphrase, buzzword, idiom, slang word, or acronym.

151. They like his slang and his brag and his blunders.

152. Slang Used as a disparaging term for a mentally retarded person.

153. In England & quot ; fanny & quot ; is vulgar slang for female genitals.

154. Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay or homosexual man.

155. The OED reports that this sense fed a slang expression where to beef someone was to knock them down; showing first in writing in 1926.