SLANG IN MODERN LINGUISTICS (ID:130255)

euphemisms & metaphors • clapping for credit (name of easy class) • worshipping the porcelin goddess (vomit) • take happy Sam camping (said of a man, to have sex) • horizontal tango • Metaphorically relaxation is cool and drunkenness is warm or involving cooking. Consider terms like chill out, heated, fried, cool down sound symbolism • gak (Lemonjuice and water drink the Cal band drinks during break) • zerbert (to blow on one's stomach with the lips to make a funny noise) Using old words in new ways semantic changes (new meaning): • fresh ‘novel, good’ • bad = ‘good,’ badass, kickass = ‘very good’ (opposites) • thick ‘curvy’ changing part of speech: • He's so adonis! • He's a burn out (from burned out) • grub (on) v. < n. (I was grubbin on some pizza) puns: • Babylon (or [beybilan]) – ‘place where babes (pretty women) come from’ • brewhaha ‘can of beer’ (short forms = brewha, haha, ha) < brouhaha, 'uproar' Allusions, e.g. to movie/comic strip characters: • Magoo -- person driving car slowly • McFly -- person with no intelligence