Define the word slang"Slang" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slang \Slang\,
imp. of Sling. Slung. [Archaic]
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"Slang" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slang \Slang\, n.
Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.]
--Holland.
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"Slang" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slang \Slang\, n. [Cf. Sling.]
A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]
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"Slang" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slang \Slang\, n. [Said to be of Gypsy origin; but probably from
Scand., and akin to E. sling; cf. Norw. sleng a slinging, an
invention, device, slengja to sling, to cast, slengja kjeften
(literally, to sling the jaw) to use abusive language, to use
slang, slenjeord (ord = word) an insulting word, a new word
that has no just reason for being.]
Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but
unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the
jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low
popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of
sailors, etc.
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"Slang" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slang \Slang\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slanged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slanging.]
To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar
language. [Colloq.]
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Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a
bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat
and challenge him to fisticuffs. --London
Spectator.
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"Slang" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Sling \Sling\, v. t. [imp. Slung, Archaic Slang; p. p.
Slung; p. pr. & vb. n. Slinging.] [AS. slingan; akin to
D. slingeren, G. schlingen, to wind, to twist, to creep, OHG.
slingan to wind, to twist, to move to and fro, Icel. slyngva,
sl["o]ngva, to sling, Sw. slunga, Dan. slynge, Lith. slinkti
to creep.]
1. To throw with a sling. "Every one could sling stones at an
hairbreadth, and not miss." --Judg. xx. 16.
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2. To throw; to hurl; to cast. --Addison.
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3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
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4. (Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc.,
preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
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"slang" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
slang
n 1: informal language consisting of words and expressions that
are not considered appropriate for formal occasions;
often vituperative or vulgar; "their speech was full of
slang expressions"
2: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among
thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: cant, jargon,
lingo, argot, patois, vernacular]
v 1: use slang or vulgar language
2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, befool,
cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
3: abuse with coarse language
"slang" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "slang":
Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, argot, babble, barbarism, bluff,
bluster, bluster and bluff, bounce, brag, bully, cant, cipher,
code, colloquialism, common speech, corruption, cryptogram,
double Dutch, garble, gasconade, gibberish, gift of tongues,
glossolalia, gobbledygook, hector, illiterate speech, impropriety,
intimidate, jargon, jargonal, jargonish, jumble, lingo, localism,
mumbo jumbo, noise, out-herod Herod, patois, patter, phraseology,
rage, rant, rave, roister, rollick, scatological, scatology,
scramble, secret language, slangy, splutter, sputter, storm,
substandard language, swagger, swashbuckle, taboo, taboo language,
taboo word, vapor, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language,
vulgar tongue, vulgarism, vulgate
"slang" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"
S-Lang
A small but highly functional embedded
interpreter. S-Lang was a stack-based postfix language
resembling Forth and BC/DC with limited support for
infix notation. Now it has a C-like infix syntax.
Arrays, stings, integers, floating-point and autoloading
are all suported. The editor JED embeds S-lang.
S-Lang is available under the GNU Library General Public License. It runs on MS-DOS, Unix, and VMS.
Latest version: 0.94, as of 1993-06-12.
(ftp://amy.tch.harvard.edu/).
E-mail: John E. Davis .
(2000-10-30)
"slang" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"
SLANG
1. R.A. Sibley. CACM 4(1):75-84 (Jan 1961).
2. Set LANGuage. Jastrzebowski, ca 1990. C extension with
set-theoretic data types and garbage collection. "The SLANG
Programming Language Reference Manual, Version 3.3",
W. Jastrzebowski , 1990.
3. Structured LANGuage. Michael Kessler, IBM. A language
based on structured programming macros for IBM 370 assembly
language. "Project RMAG: SLANG (Structured Language)
Compiler", R.A. Magnuson, NIH-DCRT-DMB-SSS-UG105, NIH, DHEW,
Bethesda, MD 20205 (1980).
4. "SLANG: A Problem Solving Language for Continuous-Model
Simulation and Optimisation", J.M. Thames, Proc 24th ACM Natl
Conf 1969.
"SLANG" devils "THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)"
SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_)
with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue
what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in
accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of
setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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