Definition of "slang"

She was amused by his talk, which was simple, straightforward, rather humorous and keen, and interspersed with homely expressions of a style which is sometimes called slang.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850

English-speaking Australians have always had a love affair with slang.

1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page v

"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."

1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book I, page 172

[F]or a detailed analysis see Liberman (2008 157ff) who sees it as one of a number of terms found in pan-European slangs meaning concealment and/or cheating.

2023, Jonathon Green, Green’s Dictionary of Slang‎

Anyway, I have learned many slangs while I am in New York, and one of them, a remarkable slang, is sheister.

1921, Horace Fish, The Great Way: A Story of the Joyful, the Sorrowful, the Glorious, New York: Mitchell Kennerley

The internet comes up with so many slangs used by people to survive in the online world. Many of those slangs are in the form of abbreviations, for instance, the word "u" which refers to "you"[.]

2019, Hendi Pratama, Linguistic Politeness in Online Communication, Semarang: LPPS Unnes

Such attempts were made even more aggressive by the fact that these local women were known for picking fights easily and using slangs to verbally abuse their neighbours.

2021, Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das, Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City, page 82

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

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2007, page 26

Stephen feared that he would yell louder, and was hostile. But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls …

1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII

"If they had been a row of his favorite Pressmen he could not have slanged them worse."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton

Before he slang the all-deciding stone […]

1836, Edward Bagnall, Saul and David

There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out~thrust tongue.

1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton

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

2014, “Bail Out”, Cdai (lyrics), performed by RondoNumbaNine ft. Cdai

Whip, whip in the trap do up kitchen that's food (that's food)Cookin up grubFuck, these niggas cookin up soup (uhhhhh)Slang the crack or the blackPut the light and dark on the moveGold and brown and cuteGyal love me and I love them too (too)

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

Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblingThey rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobodyHold that properly when I bang that dottyI put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby

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

Bro is in the kitchen, know he can’t cookHe is whipping shit that we use to slangThis fat prick wanna chat on YouTubestill had to cheat to deny he’s gang

2019 October 18, “Feed' Em”‎performed by #SG Jibbzy, 1:17–1:23