| Jargon, e.g. | 12 |
| It's the word on the street | 31 |
| It usually comes from the hip? | 30 |
| Informal words | 14 |
| Informal lexicon | 16 |
| Highly informal language | 24 |
| Hair of the dog or the cat's pajamas | 40 |
| Goofball or goof-off | 20 |
| George Ade's fable style | 28 |
| George Ade's "Fables in ___" | 42 |
| Gang's language | 19 |
| Dis, dawg or dude | 17 |
| Dis or moola, e.g. | 18 |
| Dictionary label | 16 |
| Colorful language, sometimes | 28 |
| Challenge for ESL students | 26 |
| Challenge for a translator | 26 |
| Breezy talk | 11 |
| Bread or moola, e.g. | 20 |
| Blotto or stinko, e.g. | 22 |
| Big gun or big cheese, e.g. | 27 |
| Big cheese or long green | 24 |
| Bananas, crackers and nuts, e.g. | 32 |
| "The cat's meow" or "a dog's life" | 62 |
| "Pasted" or "wasted," for "drunk" | 63 |
| "Language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work," per Carl Sandburg | 102 |
| "Kiddo," e.g. | 23 |
| "Hit the road" or "hit the books" | 53 |
| "Fall guy" or "gent," e.g. | 46 |
| "Crib" for "home," e.g. | 43 |
| "Bonk" or "conk," e.g. | 42 |
| "Beak" for "nose," e.g. | 43 |
| "All ___ is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry": G. K. Chesterton | 77 |
| "A poor man's poetry": Moore | 42 |
| Spoke idiomatically | 19 |
| DOUG | 4 |
| More jargony | 12 |
| Like "Z's" compared to "sleep" | 54 |
| Like "chow" vis-Ã -vis "edibles" | 54 |
| Less formal, in speech | 22 |
| Casual forms of speech | 22 |
| Colorful vocab | 14 |
| Like street talk | 16 |
| Loose, linguistically | 21 |
| Linguistically loose | 20 |
| Like fab or marv | 16 |
| Like "phat" | 21 |
| Like "like," nowadays | 31 |
| Like "fuzz" for "police" | 44 |
| Jargonish | 9 |
| Italics feature | 15 |
| Editorial view | 14 |
| What italicized letters do | 26 |
| Form an incline | 15 |
| Writer's angle | 18 |
| Italics have it | 15 |
| What italics do | 15 |
| What a roof is usually built on | 31 |
| One person's opinion | 24 |
| Leaning Ani DiFranco song? | 26 |
| Editorial take | 14 |
| Editorial feature | 17 |
| Biased viewpoint | 16 |
| What Pavement might do when they enchant? | 41 |
| What Pavement might do before they enchant? | 43 |
| What italics have | 17 |
| What an editorial has | 21 |
| Speaker's viewpoint | 23 |
| Route for a receiver | 20 |
| Reporting bias | 14 |
| Reporter's viewpoint | 24 |
| Reporter's point of view | 28 |
| Reporter's bias | 19 |
| Reporter's approach | 23 |
| Reporter's angle | 20 |
| Quick pass in football | 22 |
| Present with a bias | 19 |
| Pitch, as of a roof | 19 |
| Personal point of view | 22 |
| Personal bias | 13 |
| Particular angle | 16 |
| Partial approach? | 17 |
| Obliqueness | 11 |
| Oblique direction | 17 |
| Not present fairly | 18 |
| Not be vertical | 15 |
| Not be perpendicular | 20 |
| No-no for objectivity | 21 |
| Move from horizontal | 20 |
| Mental tendency | 15 |
| Lie on an incline | 17 |
| Lie at an angle | 15 |
| Leaning Ani DiFranco song (with "The")? | 49 |
| Lean one way or another | 23 |
| Journalistic angle | 18 |
| Italicize, say | 14 |
| Galactic Cowboys: "Media ___" | 39 |
| Galactic Cowboys "Media ___" | 38 |
| Feature of italics | 18 |
| Edit subjectively | 17 |