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slanguages

slanguages is the plural of slanguage.

Meaning of slanguage

Noun

slanguage (countable and uncountable, plural slanguages)

  1. (informal) A particular vernacular or vocabulary of slang; the jargon or lingo of a particular group.
    • The origin of the name of these sailors’ nightmares has never been satisfactorily explained in the Royal Australian Navy, and so we fall back on Mr. Wilfred Granville, that expert on sea-slanguage.1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 87

Questions about slanguages

What is slanguages the plural of?
Slanguages is the plural of slanguage.

Words near slanguages in the dictionary

  1. slangrills
  2. slangs
  3. slangster
  4. slangsters
  5. slanguage
  6. slanguages
  7. slanguist
  8. slanguists
  9. slangular
  10. slangville
  11. slangwhang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slanguages (page history and authors); slanguage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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