What is Colloquialism?
1.
a special use of a common word in a certain geographical region or a word/phrase particular to a region.
In western PA, people may use the colloquialism "red up your room" to tell a child to clean his or her bedroom.
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2.
slang, a word or term that only a few people use, or that's not in common language.
I call it verbal jizm. you call it a colloquialism.
Much of urban language is composed of colloquialisms
3.
The vernacular.
Urban dictionary would be dead without colloquialisms
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