Soon after he was considered one of the premier centers in the league. Ewing enjoyed a successful career; eleven times named an NBA All-Star, once named to the All-NBA First Team, six times a member of the All-NBA Second Team, and named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team three times.
SlangSlang is vocabulary that is used between people who belong to the same social group and who know each other well. Slang is very informal language. It can offend people if it is used about other people or outside a group of people who know each other well. We usually use slang in speaking rather than writing. Slang normally refers to particular words and meanings but can include longer expressions and idioms.
slang (countable and uncountable, plural slangs) 1  Language outside of conventional usage. 2  Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon. 3  The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant. 1871â72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 11 Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang..