Gradually they may realize, or some kind soul may explain, that what they are hearing is a popular slang called Verlan in which standard French spellings or syllables are reversed or recombined, or both.
But he encounters new depths of depravity when 10-year-old Bird Daly alerts him to the activities of a serial killer in a black hood who is kidnapping and butchering child prostitutes — "kinchin-mabs," as they're known in the street slang called "flash-patter".
And two, I go on what Australians, those great innovators of surf slang, call a "regardo" — that is, I head for the beach committed to paddle out regardless of how poor the surf turns out to be when I get there.
Almost immediately, McElroy said, Tebow started picking up on their slang, calling great throws dimes, as Sanchez often does.
That souplesse, as cycling slang calls it, is still honed on the track in the Olympic squad's base at the velodrome in Manchester, behind a motorbike driven by Ellingworth.
On the Web page is a recording of what she describes as her latest track, "What We Want," a hip-hop-inflected rhythm-and-blues tune that asks, "Can you handle me, boy?" and uses some dated slang, calling someone her "boo".
Mercer wrote a song called "New Slang," which he recently told Spin magazine was "the most punk-rock fucking thing I could do," precisely because it wasn't punk rock, or even vaguely aggressive.
To hide his identity for practical and humorous reasons, he adopted the persona of a midwife, also known as a "Mrs. Midwife" in slang, and called this persona "Mrs. Mary Midnight".
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of "techy" was in 1969, in a publication called Current Slang.
Lauded for his way of writing dialogue, many of Whedon's altered phrases and heavily popularized words have entered a common usage called "Slayer Slang", which PBS included an entire section of in their article series Do You Speak American?
