11. But when was gaming, in its slangy , crapshooting sense, applied to a system? 12. The colloquial need not yield to the stiffly formal, but neither should it embrace the slangy . 13. She began writing her punchy, conversational, sometimes slangy prose for The New Yorker in 1967. 14. Maybe those slangy terms could be in the Baseball jargon page if they're not there already. 15. In the 20th century it took on a slangy additional meaning of " strong, romantic man ". 16. :: Probably a slangy and shorthand way of saying " converted from analog / vinyl to digital ". 17. As directed by Randall Arney, the production achieves a comic style consistent with the slangy , gently absurdist text. 18. Elliptical poems shift drastically between low ( or slangy ) and high ( or naively'poetic') diction. 19. :It's a slangy word meaning something like " those who claim to be experts on food ". 20. Alicia's slangy Valley Girl kiss-offs such as " As if ! " were a hoot.