Slang

Slang

slang /slaNG/

Noun

very informal vocabulary, used by certain groups of people, which is more appropriate for speaking than writing


"What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next."


- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 -1907)

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