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What do you mean by such slang?

Slang originally refers to the code words and codes of gang members in the Jianghu in the old days, which are more common in novels, and later refers to the language that is popular in a special industry and can't be understood by outsiders. In the Internet age, online buzzwords are slang among netizens.

Slang in Jianghu is also called incision, spring point, inch point, lip point and lip code. Many gangs have created complicated incision systems, some of which are dialects.

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With the rapid development of science and technology, the new generation's understanding of traditional culture mostly comes from the use of some novels. Among them are the most common slang in the rivers and lakes of the old society. However, most slang words in novels are more mysterious because of literary exaggeration, so that in many people's minds, slang can't be said casually without a certain position or special enough.

That was not the case. The so-called slang was not so mysterious in the past. Its main purpose is to facilitate some vagrants to transmit information that they don't want to be known by outsiders. To put it bluntly, it is confusing "outsiders", which is equivalent to the folk version of Morse code.