Jargon, e.g. | 12 |
It's the word on the street | 31 |
It usually comes from the hip? | 30 |
Informal words | 14 |
Informal lexicon | 16 |
Highly informal language | 24 |
Hair of the dog or the cat's pajamas | 40 |
Goofball or goof-off | 20 |
George Ade's fable style | 28 |
George Ade's "Fables in ___" | 42 |
Gang's language | 19 |
Dis, dawg or dude | 17 |
Dis or moola, e.g. | 18 |
Dictionary label | 16 |
Colorful language, sometimes | 28 |
Challenge for ESL students | 26 |
Challenge for a translator | 26 |
Breezy talk | 11 |
Bread or moola, e.g. | 20 |
Blotto or stinko, e.g. | 22 |
Big gun or big cheese, e.g. | 27 |
Big cheese or long green | 24 |
Bananas, crackers and nuts, e.g. | 32 |
"The cat's meow" or "a dog's life" | 62 |
"Pasted" or "wasted," for "drunk" | 63 |
"Language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work," per Carl Sandburg | 102 |
"Kiddo," e.g. | 23 |
"Hit the road" or "hit the books" | 53 |
"Fall guy" or "gent," e.g. | 46 |
"Crib" for "home," e.g. | 43 |
"Bonk" or "conk," e.g. | 42 |
"Beak" for "nose," e.g. | 43 |
"All ___ is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry": G. K. Chesterton | 77 |
"A poor man's poetry": Moore | 42 |
Spoke idiomatically | 19 |
DOUG | 4 |
More jargony | 12 |
Like "Z's" compared to "sleep" | 54 |
Like "chow" vis-Ã -vis "edibles" | 54 |
Less formal, in speech | 22 |
Casual forms of speech | 22 |
Colorful vocab | 14 |
Like street talk | 16 |
Loose, linguistically | 21 |
Linguistically loose | 20 |
Like fab or marv | 16 |
Like "phat" | 21 |
Like "like," nowadays | 31 |
Like "fuzz" for "police" | 44 |
Jargonish | 9 |
Italics feature | 15 |
Editorial view | 14 |
What italicized letters do | 26 |
Form an incline | 15 |
Writer's angle | 18 |
Italics have it | 15 |
What italics do | 15 |
What a roof is usually built on | 31 |
One person's opinion | 24 |
Leaning Ani DiFranco song? | 26 |
Editorial take | 14 |
Editorial feature | 17 |
Biased viewpoint | 16 |
What Pavement might do when they enchant? | 41 |
What Pavement might do before they enchant? | 43 |
What italics have | 17 |
What an editorial has | 21 |
Speaker's viewpoint | 23 |
Route for a receiver | 20 |
Reporting bias | 14 |
Reporter's viewpoint | 24 |
Reporter's point of view | 28 |
Reporter's bias | 19 |
Reporter's approach | 23 |
Reporter's angle | 20 |
Quick pass in football | 22 |
Present with a bias | 19 |
Pitch, as of a roof | 19 |
Personal point of view | 22 |
Personal bias | 13 |
Particular angle | 16 |
Partial approach? | 17 |
Obliqueness | 11 |
Oblique direction | 17 |
Not present fairly | 18 |
Not be vertical | 15 |
Not be perpendicular | 20 |
No-no for objectivity | 21 |
Move from horizontal | 20 |
Mental tendency | 15 |
Lie on an incline | 17 |
Lie at an angle | 15 |
Leaning Ani DiFranco song (with "The")? | 49 |
Lean one way or another | 23 |
Journalistic angle | 18 |
Italicize, say | 14 |
Galactic Cowboys: "Media ___" | 39 |
Galactic Cowboys "Media ___" | 38 |
Feature of italics | 18 |
Edit subjectively | 17 |