"street" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There's a nice lilt, too, to the street jargon, which describes the house of "Oppie" as "an elite boutique" and a spell of inactive trading as "a dead cat bounce."
- They don't want to hear street jargon when learning the causes of the Civil War.
- Then there are wounds inflicted with knives, baseball bats and other weapons when drug users are "tweaking," the street jargon for the volatile behavior that accompanies crack.
- They use brand names or street jargon: rubbers, galoshes, shower caps, American Express card (don't leave home without it).
- While we're on the subject of street jargon, Pero starts out as a Mullinski, which is Clevelandese for someone willing to do a prison stretch for money.
- He could hear the tones of a voice talking French in the street jargon of Paris.
- The band wrote their songs in Taglish (a fusion of Tagalog and English languages), and street jargon that was popular in the urban areas during 1970s.
- Money changers, offering high exchange rates, may hand a tourist a kukla, or doll, as a packet of fake or even blank rubles is called in street jargon.
- Titled after the street jargon for cash, the script called for a heist of a relatively paltry $250,000.
- With his long sentences and combination of literary Hebrew and street jargon, he draws the reader into his heroes' stream of consciousness.
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