Sentence examples for multiple slang from inspiring English sources
Fiona McPherson, senior editor of Oxford Dictionaries, said the addition of multiple slang words did not represent a dumbing down of English, but showed creative use of language.
The "Queer Words" series explores the multiple meanings of Queer slang – retooled epithets, secret codes, and camp – as a record of creative resistance.
It could even be a "McGuffin"—that's screenwriter slang for an object that multiple characters are trying to get their hands on and that thus drives the plot.
They dealt in similar soap opera-style narratives, with multiple perspectives and plotlines, all rendered in the slang that is the furiously inventive speciality of the region.
The panorama of class and cast generates multiple vernaculars, ranging from the mock-archaic to street slang to remnants of Bloomsbury-speak with residual public school inflections.
But the service goes beyond that by offering slang translations and giving you analogies for words with multiple meanings.
Multiple narrative possibilities are deployed throughout, fragmented lyricism giving way to sections of prose, dialogue, stream of consciousness, slang and song.
