Slangy

He at times almost verged on the slangy, which is, of course, quite correct and _de haut ton_, and he did not want to be taken for an old buffer, as were his contemporaries. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

See, a.fortis, now you've got me having to ask: what's the "slangy" meaning of "shorties?" ❋ A. Fortis (2007)

The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily — just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily—just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The three had recovered their composure, and were talking easily -- just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf club-house. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Just as the English are apt to find our humour "slangy" and ❋ Stephen Leacock (1906)

I responded strongly to the energy, enthusiasm and slangy writing. ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)

Why does he use 'whole' and other slangy expressions? ❋ Omer Rosen (2011)

And that night, coming out of the cannery, he was interviewed by his fellow workmen, who were very angry and incoherently slangy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In that sense, both childlike speech and slangy expression operate for Wallace as kin of free indirect discourse, here disguising as prose the speech or internal monologue of the author himself, rather than that of a character's. ❋ Omer Rosen (2011)

Those very words, except “slangy” (which had become “slinky”), were on the screen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The text is comically awful, awash in awkward phrases, grammatical errors, egregious typos, and ill-advised attempts to keep it real with slangy, conversational phrases that clash violently with the prevailing tone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To do that, there will be times when I'll need to understand slangy, off-color, and downright weird words -- all kinds -- if for no other reason than to understand what people around me are saying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The line was drawn around the time of 1997's Butterfly, when her look became sexier, her music became more beat-driven (it's always straddled fences, but it started to lean away from AC territory and toward R&B and hip-hop) and her ultra-femme, sassy, slangy, ridiculous persona unfolded. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My misspent youth in the vineyards of Southern France taught me that ‘petard’ has also has another, more slangy meaning. ❋ Unknown (2010)