Sentences with phrase «slang for»

I suppose I did study Australian slang for the HSC...

The risk of getting «pwned» — tech slang for being tricked online — has become a modern hazard of the profession, and for life in general.

Comps — Slang for «sales comparables.»

1990: the first known World Wide Web page had just been written, «SEEK» was part of a game children played, and the term «Yahoo» was Australian slang for a loutish person.

The term morality disengagement along with the term «tuning» refer to the act of telling of «porkies» (that's «pork pies» meaning lies in rhyming slang for our Aussie readers).

A pun on conquistador, as well as the word Conker, British slang for horse chestnuts and the children's game played with them.

(All of the meeting areas are named after slang for money, like «Benjamins,» Dough,» etc.) In view outside the window, across the street, the white tower of the Boston Fed looms.

It's built text - overlay filters using local slang for around 10 different top markets, like the U.S. and Canada.

The company president had closed one of these emails with «XOXO,» which «the plaintiff alleged is slang for «Kiss — Hug — Kiss — Hug.

The word «stack» is reportedly slang for $ 1,000.

If it had been «barbie» it would make more sense to me, being slang for a barbecue (which could quite understandably be a good example of a hot object).

In science, the term «trick» is slang for a clever (and legitimate) technique, in this case Michael E. Mann's technique for comparing two different data sets.

As for the «army of weaklings who look to government instead of themselves for their survival»... is this political operative - slang for the infamous 47 %, eh Wagathon?

Sorry for being a piece of work (is that Cockney Rhyming slang for Jerk?)

They include an American flag overprinted with a black panther, and corrugated iron paintings, daubed in one case with the number 12 (street slang for the police), and in another with numbers representing the past four American presidents, but with those of George W. Bush and Mr. Trump crossed out.

As Peter Schjeldahl has noticed, the title has also a playful meaning, namely the phonetic proximity between «skin fruit» and «skin flute,» which is slang for the penis.1 This association suggests a sense of the grotesque, which fits many of the works shown.

It's the perfect finishing touch to her sui generis style, which she sums up as part goth and part «vintage chilanga,» slang for the well - to - do of Mexico City, where she was raised.

Devin Troy Strother (b. 1986) New Whip (A whip is slang for a car), 2014 Mixed media on paper mounted to canvas, 18 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches Signed and dated verso: «Devin Troy / Strother / 2014»

Chelpa Ferro: Visual Sound Chelpa Ferro (Portuguese slang for money and steel), a Brazilian collective comprised of renowned visual artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini, and Sergio Mekler, will make their US debut at The Aldrich with work that demonstrates any object can simultaneously be an instrument and an artwork.

Through drawing, painting and sound works, his current show Grav • i • ty, on view at MOCA GA through February 14, isolates the phenomenon of saggin (slang for wearing pants below the belt line) as a deeply politicized fashion statement in black youth.

Dolly Mixtures — cockney rhyming slang for pictures — plays on the Nunnery Gallery's east end location and the roots of the original Londoner.

Although we now associate this instrument with flamenco dancing, in Goya's time the word castanet was slang for «happiness.»

«Hiropon» is slang for heroin, a possible allusion to Warhol's involvement in 60's drug culture.

For instance, Brazilian artist Carmela Gross's 1968 sculpture of a slab of ham looks a lot like one of Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures of scaled - up commercial products, but Gross's title, Presunto (Ham [slang for corpse]-RRB-, expediently dissuades such a simple interpretation.

Who owns the products we develop that take inspiration from other sources, is this «Biting» [Hip - hop slang for stealing]?

YellowBelly is slang for a cowardly individual.

Cause lord knows «definitely coming» is now development slang for, «maybe probably never.»

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The name of the restaurant is old Dutch slang for «forget it» or «go to hell».

Bio: New Zealand's leading travel bloggers have been wearing out their jandals (Kiwi slang for flip - flops) on their #travel adventures around the world.

Thing is, the popular travel bloggers are now being invited on «famils», the travel writing slang for junket travel.

Tall tales are a feature of the Outback, where a «yarn» (Australian slang for a story) can get bigger in the telling.

One of the most memorable dive site names is «Crack a Fat», which is Aussie slang for............ err a state of arousal.

The patio is now a «chela» garden (that's slang for beer) and the rooftop has a swimming pool and bar that draws a steady stream of locals.

We boon docked (slang for camping off the grid in a remote area) many nights, and met campers of all types in our travels.

For instance, the spot where the Queen was born (not where you think) and why the rhyming slang for The Queen is «baked bean».

He saves it for the moggie, British slang for nonpurebred, i.e. alleycat, tabby or mixed breed.

Dogs ate wild game that the driver killed whilst on trail.The word Husky is slang for Eskimo, a Northern tribe.

In case you don't know, «totes magotes» comes from a scene in the movie, «I Love You, Man,» when Paul Rudd used it as slang for «totally.»

, Dino, Feliz (happy, and this word would actually work for a boy or a girl dog) Mambo (a style of dance from Cuba), Mano (slang for little brother), Migo (from amigo, a friend), Milo (from milagro, a miracle puppy), Mojo, Paco, Pancho, Pueblo, Rico (rich), and Tio (uncle).

«Long» is financial slang for «to have possession of an asset», legally, and «to debit an asset», financially.

«Short» is financial slang for «to be liable for an asset», legally, and «to credit an asset», financially.

«Option» is financial slang for «to have the right but not obligation to force the liable to perform action», legally.

Repo - man is slang for a collection's company representative who repossesses property for a creditor.

i bet the processor wont even change but everyone will say its faster, and will attribute it to some memory or code optimization, which is basically apple slang for koolaid placebo effect

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Kiffe Kiffe Demain was published in France in 2004, when she was 19; it was published in English this summer (as a paperback original) having been translated from French into English by Sarah Adams, who provides a useful glossary of Arabic and French slang for those words that defy direct translation.

* Printer slang for «full color» is «four color»; this means the full range of colors, not literally just four colors.

Well, if what happened at my old alma mater is any indication, they don't want a repeat of that year when everyone read A Clockwork Orange and then started talking entirely in Droog slang for months afterwards just to irritate all the teachers and faculty.