Meanings
plural slanguages
- countableinformaluncountableA particular vernacular or vocabulary of slang; the jargon or lingo of a particular group.
Slanguage words tend to lead mayfly lives, counting their duration by days instead of decades. For every one that survives there are dozens of crib deaths.
1994, Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 1071 more example
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
Origin
Blend of slang + (lang)uage.
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