slangily

"Speaking slangily, not if I can beat you to it."

The award was sometimes slangily called the Ruptured duck.

And now he was easy in his manner, now he put his feet up on the desk, now he talked slangily.

And that other day, six weeks later, when Steen had talked slangily and had sat slouched in his chair, with his feet planted on the desk.

It savoured too much of a certain publicity they scorned . . . "putting on dog," as Sid slangily expressed it.

He is of the type rather slangily known among the members of our younger set as "finale hopper" which means, in the "King's English," one who is very fond of dancing.

But the metal was the noncombustible magnesium alloy, slangily called Maggie's Dream by the light metal trades, but something far swankier in the cosmetics field--Latham couldn't remember what.

His fellow workers favoured him with scowls and black looks, and made remarks, slangily witty and which he did not understand, about sucking up to the boss and pace-making and holding her down, when the rains set in.

THE UNSUBSCRIBER (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20) gathers long antiwar screeds and experiments in translation, along with much verse that's either self-consciously awkward or perhaps a little too slangily up-to-date.