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slang
noun as in casual dialect
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Example Sentences
"Most Australians would know if you said 'speaks bogan' or 'bogan Australian' that the language would be highly informal with many slang and colloquial words and phrases, including uniquely Australian ones."
She also included the Zulu word "azishe" which literally means "let it burn" but in slang can mean "let it start" or "let it proceed".
“Please don’t be glazing me here, Zohran,” he said, borrowing some Gen Alpha slang as the candidates, and audience, laughed riotously.
Members of Gen Alpha, it added, might be "smirking at the thought of adults once again struggling to make sense of your notoriously slippery slang."
“There’s a lot of ‘toxic chicken soup,’” he added, using Chinese slang for negative online content.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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