street talk

Translated from politics to street talk that was the equivalent of saying: Let’s settle this, once and for all.

So he doesn't see becoming a republic as a pressing priority: "We're just having discussions, street talk about it."

Mamet’s trademark in “American Buffalo” is the epithet-laden street talk that so majestically captures the cadences of small-time hustlers.

So that’s why he kind of has that street talk.

Crouch’s work was ever a blend of high art and street talk, the prose version of what he considered the profound democracy of jazz.