Slang /(?)/

1. imp. of Sling. Slung. [Archaic]

1. Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. [Local, Eng.]

1. A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. [Eng.]

1. 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.

imp. & p. p. Slanged; p. pr. & vb. n. Slanging

1. To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language. [Colloq.]

   Every gentleman abused by a cabman or slanged by a bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat and challenge him to fisticuffs.