Slang
- Corna, also called the "devil horns", a hand gesture with a vulgar meaning in Mediterranean countries, also used in heavy metal music
- Telephone, also known as "the horn", especially among soldiers and police officers
- Texas Longhorns, sometimes shortened to "Horns", the sports teams of the University of Texas in Austin
- Hook 'em Horns, a hand gesture expressing support for the above teams
- Cuckolds are sometimes described as having grown "horns".
- Greenhorn, sometimes shortened to "'horn", slang for newbie or novice
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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“I’ve found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before it gets into print.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)