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If you look up “slang” in your dictionary, you probably come up with the following or something like this:
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The above excerpt comes from The Random House College Dictionary (published in 1975). In short, slang is a group of words editors don’t want to place in their dictionaries or they cannot find at the time of printing. In a sense, if you can find some words in your dictionary, those words are not slang at all because they are well accepted in our society. The words described here are not found in the above dictionary.
You may say, the dictionary published in 1975 is too old. During the past three decades, some foreign words sneaked into English as slang, others were coined, yet others started to have some vulgar meanings.
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