The expression "6-7" spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the ...

Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely ...

He still is stalling, but the bottom line is that Donald Trump is ankling his job. For the uninitiated, “ankling” is Variety “slanguage” for getting fired, as Trump knows well. Trump often has boasted ...

Almost from its launch in 1905, Variety has used its own, distinctive slanguage in headlines and stories, words like ankle, which refers to someone leaving (say, walking away from) a job, or whammo, ...