xliv belong to the workmen’s slang. Below is the example of the conversation from the
movie or taken from the Malibu’s Most Wanted movie
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a. The Utilized Slang Words or Phrases DATA 5: Dough up
Setting and Meaning:
The scene is in the Bill Gluckman’s governor campaign. Suddenly, escalade rolls, door’s open and a gleaming white pair of four hundred dollar, untied Nike
sneaks as they step to the pavement; we CRANE UP, PAST Nike sweats, to BRAD GLUCKMAN, wearing a do rag under his Nike baseball cap.
BRAD: Yo Whats up all you media people? This is B-Rad G, kickin it real from the bu, represizzin
Brad starts rapping: Take out your purse and cough some dough up…
My chickens get wit you, if you vote right.. And dont worry yall, cuz my girls is tight..
Immigration, education, runaway inflation. California aint flowin like old constipation..
Vote Bill G on your election ballot.. If you dont Im gonna hit you wit a mallot Get
Glucked yall
The setting is in the Bill Gluckman’s campaign, to show the support for his father Brad doing with his way, which is by rap. Brad thinks that his father will like
it. From the statement above, Brad said dough up and according to Dictionary of American Slang: 3
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edition, it means money which is related to campaign occasion. From the example above, the writer has assumed that the word dough up includes
into workmen’s slang because it is has the characteristic of this type which is related
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xlv to materialistic, it is not mentioned in the real name but another name that is already
understood among the speakers.
DATA 6: Grand Setting and Meaning:
In another scene is in the parking lot, Tom leader of Gluckman’s campaign team speaking with Sean and PJ dress as their actual, preppy selves.
SEANincredulous: Hold the phone, buddy... you want us to scare this kid
starts acting like a nice little white boy again?
TOM: Yes..and pays fifteen grand a piece. I ‘ll call you PJ: Congrats my brother. We just booked another gig.
On the writer’s analyzes from the conversation above, the word grand means a thousand 1000 includes into workmen’s slang because it is related to people’s
activity in business or trade, which is always connected with money or materialistic. It can be seen from the dialogue when Tom said or replace a thousand with word
grand, when he said fifteen grand it means fifteen thousand dollar. That is also another characteristic of workmen’s slang, which is always not mention the real name
but it is popular among the trader.
b. The Reasons of Using Workmen’s Slang in Malibu’s Most Wanted Movie
