slanguage

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And even the slanguage of the show — which is this amazing mix of accent and dialect and old slang and new slang — it all is marinated together.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2022

Its unique brand of entertainment jargon, known as "slanguage," has even crept into the wider popular vernacular after words like "sitcom" and "soap opera" originated in the pages of Variety.

From Reuters • Mar. 20, 2013

We get the American slanguage as immediately as artists invent the phrases.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2010

If Variety is the bible of show business with a slanguage all its own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps I should apologize for the use here of the verb monkey, which savors of what a friend of mine calls the "English slanguage," to differentiate it from what he also calls the "Andrew Language."

From The Enchanted Typewriter by Bangs, John Kendrick