s-lang

8 definitions found

s-lang - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Slang \Slang\,
     imp. of Sling. Slung. [Archaic]
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  Slang \Slang\, n.
     Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.]
     --Holland.
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  Slang \Slang\, n. [Cf. Sling.]
     A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]
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  Slang \Slang\, n. [Said to be of Gypsy origin; but probably from
     Scand., and akin to E. sling; cf. Norw. sleng a slinging, an
     invention, device, slengja to sling, to cast, slengja kjeften
     (literally, to sling the jaw) to use abusive language, to use
     slang, slenjeord (ord = word) an insulting word, a new word
     that has no just reason for being.]
     Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but
     unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the
     jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low
     popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of
     sailors, etc.
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  Slang \Slang\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slanged; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Slanging.]
     To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar
     language. [Colloq.]
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           Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a
           bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat
           and challenge him to fisticuffs.         --London
                                                    Spectator.
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  Sling \Sling\, v. t. [imp. Slung, Archaic Slang; p. p.
     Slung; p. pr. & vb. n. Slinging.] [AS. slingan; akin to
     D. slingeren, G. schlingen, to wind, to twist, to creep, OHG.
     slingan to wind, to twist, to move to and fro, Icel. slyngva,
     sl["o]ngva, to sling, Sw. slunga, Dan. slynge, Lith. slinkti
     to creep.]
     1. To throw with a sling. "Every one could sling stones at an
        hairbreadth, and not miss." --Judg. xx. 16.
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     2. To throw; to hurl; to cast. --Addison.
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     3. To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
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     4. (Naut) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc.,
        preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
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s-lang - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  S-Lang
  
     <language> A small but highly functional embedded
     interpreter.  S-Lang was a stack-based postfix language
     resembling Forth and BC/DC with limited support for
     infix notation.  Now it has a C-like infix syntax.
     Arrays, stings, integers, floating-point and autoloading
     are all suported.  The editor JED embeds S-lang.
  
     S-Lang is available under the GNU Library General Public License
     .  It runs on MS-DOS, Unix, and VMS.
  
     Latest version: 0.94, as of 1993-06-12.
  
     (ftp://amy.tch.harvard.edu/).
  
     E-mail: John E. Davis <davis@tch.harvard.edu>.
  
     (2000-10-30)
  

s-lang - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "slang":
     Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, argot, babble, barbarism, bluff,
     bluster, bluster and bluff, bounce, brag, bully, cant, cipher,
     code, colloquialism, common speech, corruption, cryptogram,
     double Dutch, garble, gasconade, gibberish, gift of tongues,
     glossolalia, gobbledygook, hector, illiterate speech, impropriety,
     intimidate, jargon, jargonal, jargonish, jumble, lingo, localism,
     mumbo jumbo, noise, out-herod Herod, patois, patter, phraseology,
     rage, rant, rave, roister, rollick, scatological, scatology,
     scramble, secret language, slangy, splutter, sputter, storm,
     substandard language, swagger, swashbuckle, taboo, taboo language,
     taboo word, vapor, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language,
     vulgar tongue, vulgarism, vulgate