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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of slang.

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Examples

  • It was certainly only an American who could have the tension of Mr. Wendover; his solemnity almost made her laugh, just as her eyes grew dull when people 'slanged' each other hilariously in her sister's house; but at the same time he gave her a feeling of high respectability.

    A London Life and Other Tales Henry James 1879

  • She would have "slanged" the Emperor himself with the self-same coolness, and the Army had given her a passport of immunity so wide that it would have fared ill with anyone who had ever attempted to bring the vivandiere to book for her uttermost mischief.

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • Yes ... 'twould be about ten years since she'd dropped Cumming's acquaintance abruptly, and my lurid imagination could conjure up the scene in some silken nest of sin around South Audley Street, circa 1880, Cumming all moustachioed and masterful in his long combinations and my adulterous angel bursting proudly out of her corset as they slanged each other across the crumpled sheets of shame.

    Watershed 2010

  • Modesty prevented Rutenberg (whom Bush also slanged as "Mr. Birthday Boy") from revealing his integral part in this merriment when he duly wrote up the press conference for the Times the next day.

    The Simple Life: White House Edition Wolcott, James 2007

  • Toni Morrison's PARADISE gets slanged for columns, and the title of the deed in TNR was "The Color Purple."

    IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE TEV 2005

  • But if Platen slanged Heine with anti-Semitic remarks and got him thrown out of the country, and Heine replied with anti-homosexual remarks, I don't think the exchange was on a terribly literary level!

    languagehat.com: GHASELIG. 2004

  • Yes ... 'twould be about ten years since she'd dropped Cumming's acquaintance abruptly, and my lurid imagination could conjure up the scene in some silken nest of sin around South Audley Street, circa 1880, Cumming all moustachioed and masterful in his long combinations and my adulterous angel bursting proudly out of her corset as they slanged each other across the crumpled sheets of shame.

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • Half of the beam slanged down through the rubble to rest on the stone floor.

    Hammer and Axe Parkinson, Dan 1985

  • As he gave me no chance to offer an apology or explanation, we slanged and abused one another for about ten minutes, to the delight of the squadron, and then parted so as not to miss other similar rows.

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls; while Rickie, as each wave of vulgarity burst over him, sunk his head lower and lower, and wished that the earth would swallow him up.

    The Longest Journey 1924

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