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S-Lang Sling \ Sling\, v. t. [ imp. { Slung}, Archaic { Slang}; p. p. { Slung}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Slinging}.] [ AS. slingan; akin to D. slingeren, G. schlingen, to wind, to twist, to creep, OHG. slingan to wind, to twist, to move to and fro, Icel. slyngva, sl[" o] ngva, to sling, Sw. slunga, Dan. slynge, Lith. slinkti to creep.] 1. To throw with a sling. " Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth, and not miss." -- Judg. xx. 16. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To throw; to hurl; to cast. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle. [ 1913 Webster]
Slang \ Slang\, imp. of { Sling}. Slung. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster]
Slang \ Slang\, n. Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [ Local, Eng.] -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster]
Slang \ Slang\, n. [ Cf. { Sling}.] A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [ Eng.] [ 1913 Webster]
Slang \ Slang\, n. [ Said to be of Gypsy origin; but probably from Scand., and akin to E. sling; cf. Norw. sleng a slinging, an invention, device, slengja to sling, to cast, slengja kjeften ( literally, to sling the jaw) to use abusive language, to use slang, slenjeord ( ord = word) an insulting word, a new word that has no just reason for being.] Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc. [ 1913 Webster]
Slang \ Slang\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Slanged}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Slanging}.] To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat and challenge him to fisticuffs. -- London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster] 68 Moby Thesaurus words for " slang": Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, argot, babble, barbarism, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bounce, brag, bully, cant, cipher, code, colloquialism, common speech, corruption, cryptogram, double Dutch, garble, gasconade, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, hector, illiterate speech, impropriety, intimidate, jargon, jargonal, jargonish, jumble, lingo, localism, mumbo jumbo, noise, out- herod Herod, patois, patter, phraseology, rage, rant, rave, roister, rollick, scatological, scatology, scramble, secret language, slangy, splutter, sputter, storm, substandard language, swagger, swashbuckle, taboo, taboo language, taboo word, vapor, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language, vulgar tongue, vulgarism, vulgate
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