Sentence examples for slang use from inspiring English sources

The word "square" wasn't yet in slang use, but that's the part Bellamy played — the man who didn't get the joke.

There are the sticky notes saying things like "Useless Info" and "When Pigs Fly"; list pads titled "All Out Of" and "Things You Must Do to Make Me Happy"; flashcards for parenting, slang use and sex; and kits to aid in decision-making, dating, and even decision-making during dating.

A lawyer told me that the slang use of "making a federal case out of it," meaning giving undue importance to something, is strictly New York in origin.

I wasn't very keen on clues that depended on an intimate knowledge of the Perishers cartoon series and the names of the characters therein, nor those which used the naval slang use of PERISHER (given in the SOED) meaning a submarine periscope or (the course of training for) a submarine commander.

Don't swear or use slang, use proper English.

"Last night's rannygazoo": Jeremy Noel-Tod on compiling a new dictionary of slang using all sorts of novels, like "Ulysses" and "Right Ho, Jeeves".

By Jenny Hendrix October 26, 2010 "Last night's rannygazoo": Jeremy Nonl-Tod on compiling a new dictionary of slang using all sorts of novels, like "Ulysses" and "Right Ho, Jeeves".

MOPE -- Cop slang used frequently underground, says Al O'Leary, spokesman for the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, to refer to someone who looks up to no good.

The lexicographer Eric Partridge thought it came from armed-forces slang, used about intense bombardment.

Don't say: "Bomb pussy", or any of the expletive slang used in the book.

The chewy, Runyonesque flavor of the dialogue certainly aligns with the brooding period slang used in "Boardwalk Empire".