Slang, to cheat, to abuse in foul language.
Slang, counterfeit or short weights and measures. A SLANG quart is a pint and a half. Slang measures are lent out at 2d. per day to street salesmen. The term is used principally by costermongers.
Slang, a watch-chain. Super and SLANG, a watch and chain.
Slang, “out on the SLANG,” i.e., to travel with a hawker’s licence.
Slang-whanger, a long-winded speaker.—Parliamentary.
Slangy, flashy, vulgar; loud in dress, manner, and conversation.
Slantingdicular, oblique, awry,—as opposed to PERPENDICULAR. Originally an Americanism, now a part of the vocabulary of London “high life below stairs.”
Slap, paint for the face, rouge.
Slap, exactly, precisely; “SLAP in the wind’s eye,” i.e., exactly to windward.
Slap-bang, suddenly, violently. From the strike of a ball being felt before the report reaches the ear,—the SLAP first, the BANG afterwards.