Sentence examples for in a slang from inspiring English sources

Roofers exchange stories and photographs over social networking Web sites and blogs, chatting in a slang that for reasons that remain obscure is largely filched from English.

Indeed, it is accepted wisdom among linguists that once a word actually shows up in a slang dictionary, it effectively ceases to be slang.

Spanish is spoken throughout Uruguay, although in Rivera and other borderland towns close to Brazil an admixture of Portuguese and Spanish can be heard, often in a slang called portuñol, from the words português and español.

Like all boys' clubs, it developed short-hand and codes — and adopted a series of cultural poses — but the prose fits more comfortably within a longer-view literary tradition than it does isolated in a slang dictionary.

It was hard not to recall their 1973 counterparts, the ones the narrator of Roberto Bolaño's novel "Distant Star" describes as speaking in a "slang or jargon derived in equal parts from Marx and Mandrake the Magician," whose dreams of revolution would end in torture dungeons and prisons or in long years of enervated exile and bitter reckoning — the story of a generation.

Barge in the door and loudly continue the pissed-up chat you were having on the walk down in a slang known only to you and your mates, so that everyone else knows you're running the tightest crew in all the home counties: tonight you're Good Will Huntingdon, you're Angus, Thongs and Perfect Sonning.

This Wednesday's session ended in a slanging-match between defence and prosecution lawyers.

"I don't want to get involved in a slanging match".

Are we then to believe that the pro-Brexit press has not been indulging in a slanging match?

David Warner has defended his "speak English" demand in a slanging match with Indian batsman Rohit Sharma but admits he was mistaken over the incident that sparked it.

"Her terms runs out in the middle of next year but it's not productive for me to get in a slanging match with her".