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Jargon, slang
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An argot (; from French argot ‘ slang ’) is a secret language used by various groups—e.g., schoolmates, outlaws, colleagues, among many others—to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. The term argot is also used to refer to the informal ...
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n. 1 A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds. 2 The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers; a jargon.
Usage examples of argot.
The voices were squeaky and vague and loud, using a gabbling argot of transposed syllables and made-up words I could not follow much of it.
I suppose a newspaper reader would have to be somewhat familiar with medical argot, to grasp the implications.
I learn ten times more from Captain Argot than I do that ninny Evaristo.
Captain Argot, people asked him if he did not find it irksome to have a nine-year-old underfoot, even though he was the prince.
The horse swiveled a bored eye at Gareth, shook its neck, then nuzzled Argot, hoping for an apple.
Argot spoke a word of command and the horse froze in place, standing stock-still in the yard, with the boy on his back, while Argot went over to speak to the soldier.
He stood staring at Argot with a defiant leer made hideous by the terrible wound.
He was watching Captain Argot, and thinking of the time he had ridden on that very horse.
The soldiers had returned from maneuvers, and he was eager to question Argot about how the training had gone.
He took his bow and arrows and, while waiting for his horse to be saddled and readied, he and Captain Argot discussed the various methods of killing a boar and whether one should aim for the eye or the throat.
Captain Argot and many of the men who served with Prince Dagnarus were summoned to testify.
Captain Argot asking his soldiers why the orken were not in attendance.
Dagnarus knew of it only because Captain Argot had brought the prince there as a youth, to illustrate a lesson on the importance of the outpost to the defense of what had then been a large fishing village.
I very much doubt whether the average juryman has your intimate knowledge of the argot of the underworld.
Merely explaining it took the better part of the morning, accomplished in a babble of tongues, with the zenyan argot pervading.