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slangy

[ slang-ee ]

adjective

, slang·i·er, slang·i·est.
  1. of, of the nature of, or containing slang:

    a slangy expression.

  2. using much slang:

    slangy speech.



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Other Words From

  • slangi·ly adverb
  • slangi·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of slangy1

First recorded in 1840–50; slang 1 + -y 1

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Example Sentences

He offers to drop the price for the uranium from €100 million to €20 million in slangy, uneducated Russian.

The subjects themselves seem to call forth a cheap, slangy vocabulary and the vulgar phrases of sporting life.

Bill, to use a terse but slangy term, proceeded to go up in the air.

The language they use is not only ungrammatical but oftentimes both slangy and profane.

Akin to this is fashionably slangy conversation concerning the latest thing in books, magazine articles, trivial plays.

She was direct of speech, frank, and often slangy when slang best expressed her meaning.

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