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Beneath the big, galloping fun of American Slang lies a unifying theme about the fleeting nature of youth.
Presumably they provided him with physical protection--a "roof, " as it's called in Russian slang.
Author Professor Julie Coleman said it is surprising how long some slang has been around.
He did clarify that that this office slang was one of endearment, not prejudice.
The Carbon Club is green slang for the oil companies and other purveyors of hydrocarbon fuels.
Others say it is township slang for "shower" because it "showers people with music".
One trouble spot he sees: "families" of slang words used in many different ways.
Some did, and there is even a slang word for it in Polish, "szmalcownik".
Latma is an Arabic term for "slap" that has been adopted in Israeli slang.
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Key said he meant "weird" (the OED's definitions include "bright" and slang for "lame").
Using street slang would be an easy option in school, says a teenage boy.
The word tsotsi means hoodlum or gangster in the slang spoken in South Africa's Soweto township.
But there are a lot of others where Hip Hop slang has crept into the mainstream consciousness.
In U.S. slang, "skimming" is the act of failing to declare certain income to avoid tax payment.
The astonishing range of slang words for homosexual is evidence of the contempt for them in Latin culture.
While most discussions of slang focus on the lower and lower-middle classes, the gentry, too, have their argot.
Problematic fact: The slang dates to 1916, five years before the Duesenberg Model A rolled off the assembly line.
But I think my advice would be a piece of prison slang, which is don't be a double Richard.
Getting comfortable with slang is essential for building relationships and communicating at work.
This phrase represents an epic clash between OG corporate slang and new-school nonsense.
System D is a slang phrase pirated from French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean.
"He didn't speak English that well and with my Yorkshire slang, I think that made things difficult too, " said Toseland.
Rap music, graffiti, break dancing, slang, even fashion were born of Hip Hop, and its impact has been felt globally.
Was it something customer service workers across industries were being drilled to do, or had it spread organically, like slang?
The Japanese slang term "Unibare" is meant derisively, applied to someone caught, embarrassingly, clad in one of Uniqlo's ubiquitous core items.
It was thought that the word Assarabia - a Korean slang term - might also raise pronunciation issues outside South Korea.
Mr. MYERS: The slang boogie-woogie most likely evolved from booger rooger(ph), a phrase first coined by Texas blues Blind Lemon Jefferson.
He publicly threatened to " take out " a troublesome reporter, using colorful slang to suggest physical assault or worse.
Diddley's music drew from the sounds of the Chicago streets where he first performed, and his name came from street-corner slang.
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