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Jargon (informal)
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lingo
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Word definitions for lingo in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"foreign speech," 1650s, possibly a corrupt form of lingua franca (q.v.), or from Provençal lingo "language, tongue," from Old Provençal lenga , from Latin lingua "tongue" (see lingual ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group or region; jargon or a dialect.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lingo is the third studio album recorded by Australian band Gang Gajang . It was released in 1994 on RooART and distributed by Warner Music Australia.
Usage examples of lingo.
Injuns and wild critters, spoke some Injun lingo and had wild Injuns visiting that would never go near to Chokoloskee Bay.
So with the lingo of the Kroo-boys of Africa, the pigeon English of the Far East, and the beche de mer of the westerly portion of the South Seas.
Every time I walk into the dry dock I find the trinity of Chris, Arie and Rick clustered around something and talking in that technical lingo of theirs.
It's the lingo, the abbreviations, the barnyard to attic chitchat of amateurs with keys, with Marconi coherers or Fessenden barreters-and you can listen for a violin solo pretty soon now.
It's the lingo, the abbreviations, the barnyard to attic chitchat of amateurs with keys, with Marconi coherers or Fessenden barreters-and you can listen for a violin solo pretty soon now.
Known in the lingo of the tiny police department of Bakersville, Oregon, as a 'green rookie," Chuckie hadn't yet gone to the nine-month-long training school.
But it does seem to have something in common with the lingo of the clandestine government agencies with which Bullitt works -- most of his contacts from that crowd speak in cryptic, contorted phrases, as though their covert habits have warped their brains.
They know the lingo of the domestic relations court as well as ex-cons know their criminal law.
Neighbor gals who know way more about the lingo say this rascal claiming to be me was some sort of greenhorn from their old country.
Well, I found her 'round Bowdoin Square, but I reckon she'd been doin' the North End, only she couldn't catch on ter the lingo of the Dagos, so I don't think she give 'em the glad hand, ma'am.
So it was the Kiowa themselves who invented the now universal sign lingo of the plains.
But it was small wonder the Kiowa had invented the sign lingo of the plains nations.
The visitors had to be Kiowa-Apache, allied or adopted and hence half-ass Kiowa who spoke another lingo entirely.
Somebody must have spotted them riding in, for old Aho Gordon came tearing out on foot to meet them, wailing at her daughter in Kiowa and saying awful things about Longarm in English until Matty calmed her down in their own lingo.
The family used some one of the little lingos - Icelandic, it might have been.