Reverse Dictionary: SLANG

SLANG

ADJECTIVES
SLANGULAR belonging to or characteristic of slang …1853 colloq.


NOUNS
ALSATIA PHRASE terms from slang or criminal jargon …E17 sl.
ALTUMAL sailor’s slang, nautical jargon …E18 sl.
ATTABOY LANGUAGE slang (Attaboy = American soldier) …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
BARNYARD EXPRESSION coarse or vulgar language; slang …1968 Amer. dial.
CANT provincial dialect; vulgar slang …1802
FAGLISH gay slang …1980s US homosexual sl.
FLAPPERESE slang of the 1920s …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
GUM-CHEWING WORDS slang …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
JABBERWOCKY the slang of teenagers …Bk1942 US sl.
JACK LANG slang, spec. rhyming slang …1960s Aust. sl.
JAZZ JARGON slang …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
KABAC GENALS backslang …L19 sl.
KABGNALS backslang …L19 sl.
LIP MUSIC slangy speech …1990s sl.
OLD JACK LANG slang, spec. rhyming slang …1960s Aust. sl.
– POLARI a form of slang incorporating Italianate words, rhyming slang, cant terms, and other elements of vocabular, which originated in England in the 18th and 19th centuries as a kind of secret language within various groups, including sailors, vagrants, circus people, entertainers etc.; generally, talk, patter …1846 orig. & chiefly Brit.
SLANGUAGE slang …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
ST. GILES’S GREEK slang, cant …L18 sl.
STREAMLINE SPEECH slang …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
TRENCH TALK military slang …World War I Amer. sl.


NOUNS, PERSON
SLANGWITCH a slangy girl …Bk1942 US sl.