slang
Example Sentences
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She has even considered "quitting the pit" - Chinese slang for retiring a hobby.
From BBC
“They don’t let zeks go home,” he said, using the prison slang for prisoners.
The Merriam-Webster promotional copy makes a point to mention the inclusion of the TikTok slang “rizz,” whose noun form is defined as “romantic appeal or charm.”
"I've never actually realised, given how much we use it, that it's slang."
From BBC
But Dictionary.com -- which crowned it word of the year -- said it was Generation Alpha's joke on adults who are "once again struggling to make sense of its notoriously slippery slang".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
