Some did, and there is even a slang word for it in Polish, "szmalcownik".
System D is a slang phrase pirated from French-speaking Africa and the Caribbean.
The irony of course is at the heart of the red-eye, a slang term used to describe the fatigued eyes often plaguing overnight flyers.
"It was a completely a burger crowd, " said Ms. Mansuri, using a slang term for the affluent, middle-class voters who tend to support PTI.
Among them are "bucket list" (popularized by the eponymous movie), "gassed" (a slang word meaning drained of energy), and Oprah Winfrey's signature phrase, "aha moment" (a moment of sudden realization, inspiration, insight, recognition, or comprehension).
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At Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the Intensive English Program doesn't teach a slang expression until it is in use for more than one generation, says David Johnson, a professor of English and director of the program.
They speak loudly and warmly to each other in an accent that alternates between a drawling slang and a polite and mannered form of address.
It was thought that the word Assarabia - a Korean slang term - might also raise pronunciation issues outside South Korea.
Beneath the big, galloping fun of American Slang lies a unifying theme about the fleeting nature of youth.
Nicknamed Caveirao, Brazilian slang for a slum-clearing armored police car, she is a close friend of fellow power woman Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil.
Strangers begin speaking like one another (similar sentence structure, a similar tone and even the same slang sometimes) within 30 seconds, according to a New York Times article by Benedict Carey.
While learning American idioms has always been challenging, texting, email and social networks have generated a tidal wave of new slang and abbreviations in English.
It is a hardboiled detective story set in an affluent Californian high school where everyone speaks a wonderful mixture of teen slang and 70-year-old pulp lingo.
As a noun, mongo is sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from trash.
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So many Chinese expats have returned in the past few years that Valley-slang has given them a special name, B2C (back to China).
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He is the leader of a gang of "droogs" - the name given to his friends in the book's language Nadsat - a mix of Russian and English slang.
But there are a lot of others where Hip Hop slang has crept into the mainstream consciousness.
Half a year later, Silverman struck back in an Esquire article, calling McPherson a "D-girl, " industry slang for an attractive, but powerless, junior female executive.
Jim feels half at home there, for what does a boarding school resemble, with its cryptic slang, its awkward alliances, and its arcane regulations, if not the Circus?
If you look at an assortment of reviews across some our client sites, you find a tremendous diversity of tone, jargon, and slang.
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In 2003, managers at General Motors in Canada were forced to rebrand their new Buick LaCrosse after discovering it had a special, embarrassing, meaning in French Canadian slang.
Professor Coleman said the use of slang "emerges when people are put in a position where they are bottom of a hierarchy" but have a strong sense of group identity - using it as an "outlet of aggression".
The word one hears most often to describe Hollande's style is "sympa, " French slang for sympathetic, but his victory also owes a great deal to Strauss-Kahn's misfortune.
Perlmutter's parents fled Germany for Palestine in the 1930s, and his colleagues say the engineer is a typical driven and intense "yake"--Hebrew slang for an Israeli of German extraction.
Presumably they provided him with physical protection--a "roof, " as it's called in Russian slang.
Using street slang would be an easy option in school, says a teenage boy.
The word one hears most often to describe Hollande's style is "sympa, " French slang for sympathetic, but his anticipated victory also owes a great deal to Strauss-Kahn's misfortune.
One is called Totsi and it's the South African slang for thug or hoodlum, and it's a story of a violent criminal who finds redemption after he inadvertently abducts a baby who was in the back of a car that he hijacks.
Problematic fact: The slang dates to 1916, five years before the Duesenberg Model A rolled off the assembly line.
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