local slang
Neighborhood speech patterns
Local slang refers to informal words and expressions used within a specific geographic area or community.
Unlike standard vocabulary, local slang may be incomprehensible or unfamiliar to outsiders: The tourists didn't understand the local slang.
Such terms often reflect regional culture, history, or humor and may eventually spread into wider use or remain confined to their place of origin.
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- dialectRegional language variety
- mother tongueLanguage acquired from birth
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
- jargonSpecialized professional vocabulary
idiom · street talk · street · hood · home turf · slanguage · lingo · patois · drawl · accent · twang · homegrown · down home · neighborhood · regional · native · tongue · expressions
- Local Knowledgedialects, landmarks, native plants, regional cuisine, folk traditions
- local culturedialect, accent, folklore, traditions, festivals
- regional traitsdialect, cuisine, accent, folklore, traditions
- local pridehometown pride, civic pride, regional pride, community roots, state pride
- dialectregionalisms, vernacular, localisms, rural dialect, patois
- Manglishlah, mah, meh, wah, chop
local slanglingua franca
Shared tongue between peoples
common parlance · universal language · global English · world language
local slangformal language
Elevated, rule-governed expression
official language · proper English · Queen's English · King's English · proper grammar
local, locale, locality, locally, localize, localized, localization, locals, slang