Answer: SLANG
SLANG is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 135 times.
Referring Clues:
- Jive talkin'
 - Loose talk?
 - Breezy talk
 - Colorful talk
 - Like "hot-diggity"
 - Teen talk, often
 - Threads, for clothing
 - Talk on the street
 - Bad, for good
 - Blotto or stinko, e.g.
 - What "dis" is
 - Like much hip-hop lingo
 - "Bad" for "good," e.g.
 - What "yo mama" is
 - 70-Across, e.g.
 - Looie or hooey, e.g.
 - "Language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work," per Carl Sandburg
 - Faddish language
 - Much teen talk
 - "Applesauce" for "nonsense," for example
 - "Cyberpunk" for "computer hacker," for example
 - Jargon
 - Cat and mouse, e.g.
 - Vernacular
 - Hipster's lingo
 - Big gun or big cheese, e.g.
 - Street talk
 - "Bonk" or "conk," e.g.
 - Knuckle sandwich and piece of cake, e.g.
 - Informal speech
 - Urban Dictionary focus
 - Colorful language, sometimes
 - Informal lexicon
 - "Beak" for "nose," e.g.
 - Jive talk
 - Subject for Eric Partridge
 - Bonk or conk, e.g.
 - Much street talk
 - Big cheese or long green
 - "Crib" for "home," e.g.
 - Goofball or goof-off
 - Big gun or big cheese
 - Informal language
 - Informal talk
 - Like ''dis''
 - Nonstandard speech
 - Street lingo
 - It's spoken from the hip?
 - It's the word on the street
 - "Dis" is it
 - Lingo
 - Street vernacular
 - Informal vernacular
 - Words on the street
 - Dis or moola, e.g.
 - Very informal language
 - "All ___ is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry": G. K. Chesterton
 - It might not appear in the dictionary
 - "A poor man's poetry": Moore
 - Street language, often
 - Some teen talk
 - Breezy idiom
 - Like "dis"
 - Dis, dawg or dude
 - Sicko or wacko, e.g.
 - Village idiom?
 - Challenge for ESL students
 - Subject of some dictionaries
 - Word on the street?
 - Teen talk
 - Urban Dictionary subject
 - Urbandictionary.com specialty
 - Argot
 - Logophile's topic
 - Talk on the street?
 - "The cat's meow" or "a dog's life"
 - Bananas, crackers and nuts, e.g.
 - Informal verbiage
 - Idiomatic talk
 - Word on the street, maybe
 - Loose language
 - Teen lingo
 - Dictionary label
 - "Pasted" or "wasted," for "drunk"
 - Jargon, e.g.
 - Street language
 - Challenge for a translator
 - Hair of the dog or the cat's pajamas
 - Casual coinages
 - Urban Dictionary fodder
 - "Hit the road" or "hit the books"
 - Translating challenge
 - Some dictionary additions
 - Urban Dictionary content
 - It may be thrown around at a party
 - Word on the street
 - Urban Dictionary entries
 - Some talk on the street
 - Teen language
 - It comes from the hip
 - Tense talk, often
 - Some rap lingo
 - Words on the street?
 - Type of dictionary
 - Grammarian's no-no
 - Thwarted
 - Ade's "Fables in ___"
 - Informal speaking
 - Ade medium
 - Language student's challenge
 - "Cray" and "totes adorbs," e.g.
 - Words not yet in the dictionary
 - Challenge for new immigrants
 - Lexicographer's study
 - Topic in some cultural appropriation discourse
 - "Hammered" for "drunk," e.g.
 - Teenspeak, for example
 - What "bread" is for "money"
 - Language learner's challenge
 - Challenge for a language learner
 - "Tea" for "gossip," e.g.
 - Informal vocabulary
 - Sort of language generally found in Urban Dictionary
 - A-game or b-ball, e.g.
 - Target of some cultural appropriation
 - Informal words
 - "Dope" and "gucci," e.g.
 - Head for the toilet, say?
 - Challenge for 64-Down students
 - Colloquialism
 - "Wheels" for a car, say
 - "Hot-diggity" or "Cool it"
 - "Snow job" or "rainmaker," e.g.
 - "Chill," e.g., for "relax"
 - "That slaps," for something good, e.g.
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 03, 2025
 - New York Times - July 28, 2025
 - New York Times - April 15, 2025
 - New York Times - March 21, 2025
 - New York Times - December 15, 2024
 - New York Times - November 03, 2024
 - LA Times - July 18, 2024
 - LA Times - June 20, 2024
 - USA Today - March 04, 2024
 - New York Times - February 17, 2024
 - LA Times - October 06, 2023
 - LA Times - August 19, 2023
 - New York Times - April 15, 2023
 - USA Today - April 10, 2023
 - LA Times - April 07, 2023
 - USA Today - January 13, 2023
 - USA Today - December 06, 2022
 - USA Today - August 15, 2022
 - New York Times - August 07, 2022
 - New York Times - April 19, 2022
 
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