Definition/Meaning of slang

• English - Noun: slang (countable and uncountable, plural slangs) (countable, uncountable) Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register . 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page v: English-speaking Australians have always had a love affair with slang . 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of…
• English - Verb: slang (third-person singular simple present slangs, present participle slanging, simple past and past participle slanged) (dated, transitive) To vocally abuse , or shout at. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC: "If they had been a row of his favorite Pressmen he could not have slanged them worse." 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss…
• English - Anagrams: glans langs
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. First use appears c. 1756, meaning "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves", origin unknown. Not believed to be connected with language or lingo . Possibly derived from a North Germanic source, then possibly related to Nordic language: Danish slænge , Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk slengja , Norwegian slenge , Swedish slänga (“to (carelessly) sling, throw, hurl; throw away, to…
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /ˈslæŋ/ , [ˈslæŋ] (Canada, US) IPA: /ˈsleɪ̯ŋ/ , [ˈsleɪ̯ŋ] ~ /ˈslɛ̃ŋ/ , [ˈslɛ̃ŋ] Rhymes: -æŋ