slangy

adjective

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Recent Examples of slangy Many young people were returning from a summer of slangy socializing. — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slangy
  1. slang
  2. ungrammatical
  3. uneducated
  4. substandard
Adjective
  • Taking over the trap is slang for kicking in the door to someone else’s place and taking their valuables for yourself.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
  • For at least half a century, Border Patrol workers have used the onomatopoeic word, referring to the sound of someone getting hit, as slang for undocumented immigrants.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
Definition of slang
Adjective
  • The notes were vintage O’Keeffe—brief, vivid, enlightening, and, yes, often ungrammatical, but brilliantly so.
    — Calvin Tomkins, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
  • But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Definition of ungrammatical
Adjective
  • Ira, in my very uneducated opinion, there are eight teams in the East that could finish first, and any of those eight could be eighth.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
  • As a peripheral community grows around them, this lawless terrain is suddenly subject to boundaries and contracts and taxes; both uneducated and illiterate, Isak and Inger are ill prepared for such societal evolution.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of uneducated
Adjective
  • American educational history is overflowing with abuse, segregation, substandard structures, and smoldering scorn.
    — Kamau Bobb October 21, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
  • These are just a few of the profound questions that pop up like Roy Lichtenstein thought bubbles at the Museum of Bad Art, a collection of world-class substandard works housed in the Dorchester Brewing Company.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026
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