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Noun non-standard speech has 1 sense

non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted easily-recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
--₁ is a kind of speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication
--₁ has particulars:
baby talk, babytalk; baby talk, babytalk, motherese; dialect, idiom, accent; localism; regionalism; telegraphese; vernacular; cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular; slang