Sentence examples for slang lists from inspiring English sources

Even if these terms describing creepy outsiders aren't necessarily novel, the question remains: Why do they occur in such profusion on the U.N.C. slang lists?

Finally, in 2003, coinciding with the first season of Kutcher's show, punk shows up more innocuously on American campus slang lists as "to trick, to tease".

Facebook in particular lends itself to "stalkerish" behavior, Christina Clark explained, and indeed the compound verb Facebook stalk (meaning "excessively or surreptitiously peruse another's Facebook profile") shows up in the latest slang lists.

The slang terms he lists have not been in popular use since the '50s.

It has its own slang too: as Philbrick lists in his book, off-islanders are "coofs", an aimless stroll is a "rantum scoot", and fancy victuals are "manavelins".

Since 1972, Eble has asked her students to compile lists of slang that they encounter in their everyday interactions, and this semester, rando is going on Roux's list.

Titled "The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems" (1974-75), is is composed of black-and-white unpeopled shots of Manhattan's skid row, alternating with typed lists of slang words for drunkenness.

The Vaudeville Memories site, at personal.nbnet.nb.ca/muldrew /index.html, has a page of slang terms, many biographies, lists of theaters and some entertaining music online, as well as a page of research sources and tips on tracing ancestors' vaudevillian history.

He's a copy editor's nightmare, as is shown by the lists of slang terms and neologisms from his debut novel Private Citizens that he's been posting, including words such as "Masturbate-a-Thon," "ladycanon," and "listicles (n).." Which is to say, he doesn't shy away from the preoccupations of internet-grown, fauxthentic millennials.

— "cant" means slang — whose author is listed only as B.E.

A list of slang compiled from students at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, published in the journal American Speech in 1975, included sketch as an adjective meaning "dangerous, risky" ("I think we're in a sketch situation").