Sentence examples for internal slang from inspiring English sources

But "The Internship" also gets the vibe of working at Google about as well as Hollywood possibly could, from the proverbial Googley details like nap pods, free food, and indoor slides; to more insidery tidbits like accurate internal slang (foodback, TGIF) and the fact that the interns are housed in what appears to be a mid-century Motor Inn by the side of El Camino Real in Mountain View.

Over two years, they lent props, advised on internal slang, contributed dialogue and helped to compose the closing credits.

She also patiently explains the lingo of her profession, from the crew list (a gaffer is the head of a lighting crew, a best boy is the gaffer's assistant) to internal slang ("jumping" is when you leave one show for another before the first has ended, a "kick" is a hard light that shines on the back of an actor's head, and "getting peeled" means being worked to death).

Since then, there have been national slang books, theoretical slang books, slang books covering tweets and texts and e-mails (Julie Coleman's "Life of Slang").

But where Green Day's American Idiot was something of a polemic, American Slang is a more internal record, concerned with standing one's ground, mulling over bygones and fretting over girls.

Criminal groups seem to evolve about this specialized argot, and both the subculture and its slang expressions proliferate in response to internal and external pressures.

- In the wake of "Vatileaks," the lazily-created slang term for the series of internal memos and confidential documents showcasing how incredibly corrupt the Vatican is, the Pope launched a criminal probe to find the rat.

His footnotes are full of pleasingly small-scale exultations ("I like the internal rhymes here") and technical explanations ("The shift in slang — from talking about guns as tools to break things to talking about shooting as blazing — matches the shift in tone"); at one point, he pauses to quote a passage from "Book of Rhymes" in which Bradley praises his use of homonyms.