(n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
(n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
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Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
(2) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
(3) Downing Street, reluctant to become involved in a slanging match , offered no response to the announcement last night.
(4) (You need to know that "dog" is pejorative slang in America for an ill-favoured woman).
(5) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
(6) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.
(7) Her videos have been "accessorised with black dancers" and she uses US street slang like "rachet" (ghetto-diva) in her lyrics.
(8) It was recommended that more attempts should be made to subdivide measures of social deviancy by means of slang as there is some evidence of possible further differentiation of subcultural types by means of slang.
(9) It was a piece of rag on which was written a message describing a "TOS", jailhouse slang for "terminate on sight".
(10) But it emerged afterwards he was simply using snowboarding slang, meaning to "go big".
(11) It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated.
(12) In my role as a journalist working for TÊTU , the biggest French gay-oriented magazine, I used to think French society was mature enough to face such a debate without resorting to slanging matches.
(13) In Alain's work, the mixture of graceful, sometimes slightly quaint French, Congolese rhythm and Parisian street slang is very complex, but it is a complexity achieved by him as a writer.
(14) According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
(15) All the classic ingredients of tabloid fare are there: vast wealth, broken promises, honour, shame, "krysha" – Russian for "roof" but a slang term meaning "protection" – and a few chateaux, yachts and flamboyant women thrown in too.
(16) Richard McLaren receives ‘deluge’ of requests after Wada doping report Read more “I don’t want to get into a slanging match with the IOC about the way they’ve handled it.
(17) It turned into a slanging match in which the Iranians came to the assistance of the Russians.
(18) Indeed, the recent dustup about supposedly fixed parliamentary elections was essentially a slanging-match between the Blairite pressure group Progress (largely funded by Lord Sainsbury, and founded by people close to such über-New Labour types as Peter Mandelson), and the trade union Unite, whose leader Len McCluskey has recently been heard bemoaning the power held by "Oxbridge Blairites".
(19) Jungle don mature” [the jungle has matured] goes the Nigerian slang meaning: “the game is on.” It is a phrase on the lips of more than one Nigerian political commentator and aptly describes the tension as Africa’s most populous nation gears up for presidential elections just eight weeks away.
(20) Conrad also took Kimball to task for his lack of understanding of much of the slang Tsarnaev used in his tweets.
Twist
Definition:
(v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
(v. t.) Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
(v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
(v. t.) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
(v. t.) To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
(v. t.) To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.
(v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
(v. t.) To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
(v. i.) To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.
(v. i.) To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.
(n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.
(n.) The form given in twisting.
(n.) That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.
(n.) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.
(n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.
(n.) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.
(n.) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
(n.) A little twisted roll of tobacco.
(n.) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling.
(n.) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.
(n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
(n.) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
(v. t.) A twig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aberrant forms (elongated and twisted) in the vacuole and double virions in the plasma membrane were observed as early as 65 h after infection.
(2) Electron microscopy shows that at neutral pH, CEA particles consist of homogeneous, morphologically distinctive, twisted rod-shaped particles, about 9 X 40 nm.
(3) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(4) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
(5) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(6) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
(7) Gowher Rizvi, chief representative of the prime minister, Sheik Hasina, told the Guardian that preparations for the forthcoming elections, were "completely on track" and that the tribunal, probing crimes committed during the 1971 war in which Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, was about bringing justice previously denied by "the twists and turns" of the country's history.
(8) The base orientations are characterized by a substantial inclination and propellor twist.
(9) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(10) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(11) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
(12) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
(13) These results indicate that the polypeptide chain, driven by energetics (nonbonded and electrostatic interactions), is folded into a typical left-handed twisted four-helix bundle with an approximately 4-fold symmetric array, as observed in most four alpha-helix proteins.
(14) In the mutants twist and snail, which fail to differentiate the ventrally derived mesoderm, mitoses specific to the mesoderm are absent.
(15) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(16) Blockage of the balloon system was possibly caused by twisting the system to reach and pass the lesion in the branch of left circumflex coronary artery.
(17) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
(18) From previous genetic and biochemical studies it was hypothesized that dorsal might be responsible for the activation of the zygotic gene twist.
(19) Finally, the twisted nose was treated by freeing the nasal components, straightening the bone and cartilage, and replacing them in their anatomical positions.
(20) It doesn’t do a lot at the moment, but there’s a lot of potential for a modern twist on board games here.