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.