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noun
- Language that is outside of conventional usage.
- Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
- The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant.
Translations: - Dutch: Bargoens , dialect
- French: argot(fr)m
- German: Slang(de)m
- Italian: gergo(it)m
- Spanish: jerga(es, argot, m, {{t+, es)f
verb
- (context, transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
- 1888: Also, he had to keep his temper when he was slanged in the theatre porch by a policeman " Rudyard Kipling, "Miss Youghal's Sais", Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)
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