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• I have no issue with them flip-flopping, or in local parlance, roti-prataing.2020, Reddit. From the entry prata
• In meme parlance, you may ask “Why?” but ah, an intellectual asks, “What’s the endgame?”2019 April 25, Heather Schwedel, “The Myth of the Endgame”, in Slate. From the entry endgame
• But common parlance has seen the name applied to any warty tail-less amphibian.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 36. From the entry warty
• In the parlance of the elven archmagi, that meant the blood of their own, nigh-immortal people.2018, Xavier P. Hunter, House Rules (Metagamer Chronicles; 2), Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN. From the entry archmagus
• For many users — or “musers,” in the app’s parlance — Musical.ly is a positive experience.2017 January 31, John Keilman, “Lip-sync app strikes parents as sour note”, in Chicago Tribune, 169th year, number 31, page 6. From the entry muser
• This is another example where climate-speak removes itself from common parlance and common sense.2017, Paul Hawkin, Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming, page vii. From the entry climate-speak
• Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance.2015 September, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, “The Coddling of the American Mind”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Apr…. From the entry microaggression
• In everyday parlance and mass media, Global South has hardly become a household term.2015, Andrea Hollington, Oliver Tappe, Tijo Salverda, Tobias Schwarz, Concepts of the Global South. Voices from around the world., Global…. From the entry global south
• It’s all part of a tactic called DHV, or “demonstration of higher value” in pickup parlance.2008, Faye Flam, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man, Penguin Group, →ISBN, →OL, page 31. From the entry DHV
• Perhaps Artificial Intelligence should be called “Synthetic Intelligence” to accord better with commercial parlance.[1985, John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 255. From the entry synthetic intelligence
• Black women are dope: dope as an adjective, not as a noun or verb; dope in Black urban parlance.2022 October 18, Charity C. Elder, “Preface: A Black Woman’s Gaze”, in Power: The Rise of Black Women in America, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse…. From the entry dope
• TikTok recipes – or FoodTok, to use the parlance of the people – are a genre unto themselves.2022 August 5, Lauren Sams, “How TikTok is taking over your kitchen”, in Australian Financial Review. From the entry FoodTok
• Trans men are rarely even described as actively transitioning; instead, they’re “being transed,” in the parlance of extreme transphobia.2021, Eva Urquhart, “Elliot Page Is a Grown-Up”, in Slate. From the entry transed
• I continuously engaged in what has been referred to as “doomscrolling” (or, in an extension of that same modern parlance, “doomsurfing”).2021 April 13, Sierra Élise Hansen, “Post-pandemic, we must value libraries more”, in The Michigan Daily. From the entry doomsurfing
• In the usual comedic parlance, “anticomedy” is a self-aware performance that mines laughs from its utter lack of conventional punch lines.2019, Ken Jennings, chapter 8, in Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry anticomedy
• Or, in the parlance of McDonald's, Special Sauce?2018 October 13, Maura Judkis, “Which mayo-ketchup sauce is worthy of your burger and fries?”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the…. From the entry mayochup
• Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus.2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171. From the entry jump at the chance
• Silk Road was, in some sense, a last heave—a Hail Mary in the parlance of Ross's football-mad hometown.2015, Nathaniel Popper, chapter 6, in Digital Gold, 1st edition, New York: Harper, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry Hail Mary
• He is, in patrolman's parlance, a cheese-eating rat.2007, David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, page 116. From the entry cheese-eating
• The "ten-year series" is a phrase used in local parlance to denote assessment books collating Cambridge examinations from previous years.2005, Yu-Mei, “When a ten-year series is not enough”, in Too Many Thoughts. From the entry ten-year series
• South Africa, after all, has not been immune to Judeophobia or, in the parlance of late nineteenth-century Europe, “Judenhetze.”1994, Milton Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa, →ISBN, →OCLC, page ix. From the entry Judenhetze
• Indeed, Moran was a profession cheat, a sharper of more than ordinary dimensions — a macer, in criminal parlance.1981, John E. Gardner, The Return of Moriarty, page 7. From the entry macer
• In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler.1959, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (3:35 from the start), in The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Narrator (Rod Serling). From the entry frock coat
• In the parlance of the social media platform X (olim Twitter), Maximianus and the Langland of B.20 are poets of the “lolsob”.2025, Eric Weiskott, “William Langland and Maximianus on Impotence”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, volume 126, number 2, page 101. From the entry lolsob
• The subjects, which include Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake and Daft Punk, show up rendered as cylinder-headed, block-bodied minifigures, Lego parlance for the people-shaped pieces.2024 October 10, Alissa Wilkinson, “‘Piece by Piece’ Review: Pharrell Williams’s Life, in Legos”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry minifigure
• But it is very clear that (using football parlance) 'the management has lost the dressing room', following earlier misjudged decisions about reducing operating costs.2023 May 31, 'Industry Insider', “DfT calls time on TPE”, in RAIL, number 984, page 68. From the entry lose the dressing room
• If, however, you built something inexpensive—a pretotype, in Savoia's parlance—and proved viability, there was still a lot of money on the table.2013, Bob Sullivan, The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success. From the entry pretotype
• This is the paradigm shift of modern parlance and after it has happened the scientific field returns to normal science, based on the new framework.2012 August 12, John Naughton, “Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry paradigm shift
• Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors.2010, Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, page 121. From the entry slacker
• In addition, peasants had to operate within a social and juridical system – seigneurialism, or féodalité (‘feudalism’) in contemporary parlance – which also inhibited innovation.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 153. From the entry seigneurialism
• In popular parlance, duty means what one should do; while karma is the sumtotal of what one did, does and will do.2002, Hullasa Behera, 50 flowers from Bhagavat Gita: a solace against frightening materialism, Delhi: Pustak Mahal, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62…. From the entry kartavya
• Twitter on Monday announced a new effort to preemptively debunk, or “prebunk” in Twitter parlance, some of the most commonly circulated false and misleading information about the election.2020 October 27th, Mike Isaac, “Twitter to Highlight Accurate Voting Information”, in New York Times, page A 15. From the entry prebunk
• Park rangers post photos of the bears’ girth or, in internet parlance, chonkiness, and the public votes on which bear is really packing on the pounds ahead of winter.2019 October 9, Melissa Locker, “Holly Is This Year’s Beautiful Fat Bear Week Winner Who Swept the Whole Competition”, in Time, New York…. From the entry chonkiness
• Now, full disclosure: I too main Soldier 76 in "Overwatch" (by the way, the term "maining" is parlance for the most-often used character you play in a given game).2017 January 25, Dave Smith, “After Weeks of Bugging Him on Twitter, Elon Musk just Told Me His ‘Dark Secret’”, in Business Insider…. From the entry main
• Of course, Byzantines who were engaged in legal parlance would have encountered the grecicized "ἀκτοριτάτε" (occasionally used in legal texts) and its later trajectory in Romance vernacular.2014, Stratis Papaioannou, “Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author”, in Aglae Pizzone, editor, The Author in Middle Byzantine…. From the entry grecicize
• Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two.2011 May 7, Margalit Fox, “Lanny Friedlander, Founder of Reason Magazine, Dies at 63”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry purple
• In Wall Street parlance this is known as "schmuck insurance," a reference to the rather vulgar Yiddish word that has come to mean the equivalent of "idiot."2011 June 13, Shira Ovide, “The Benefits of Deal 'Schmuck Insurance'”, in The Wall Street Journal. From the entry schmuck insurance

Meaning of parlance

1. noun A certain way of speaking, of using words; especially that associated with a particular job or interest.
2. noun Of a word, the quality of being lexicalized; especially as jargon or slang.
3. noun Speech, discussion or debate.

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Questions about parlance in a sentence

How do you use parlance in a sentence?

Parlance is used as a noun. For example: “The tourist's impression of the country to-day is that of a transported Holland, in which the official language is Dutch and the parlance of the people is "taki-taki."”

What is a short sentence with parlance?

“He is, in patrolman's parlance, a cheese-eating rat.”

What does parlance mean?

Parlance means a certain way of speaking, of using words; especially that associated with a particular job or interest.