[ UK /ˈɑːɡət/ ]
[ US /ˈɑɹɡət/ ]
NOUN
  1. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
    they don't speak our lingo
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How To Use argot In A Sentence

  • The golden butternut squash velouté with escargot needed to be thicker to live up to its name, and more complex to live up to its price tag.
  • Margot chuckled at the new use for the derisive term for malware tinkerers, and reminded herself to use it in her report. Short Story: "Fair Game"
  • Margot coaxed, reasoned, and finally stormed, but to no avail. Big Game A Story for Girls
  • Images includes those of vivid rehearsals as well as behind-the-scenes pictures of seminal company personalities such as Margot Fonteyn and Ninette de Valois, plus never-before-seen views of the dancers off duty, most charmingly a snap of Lynn Seymour and Rudolf Nureyev, drinking in a London pub. This week's new dance
  • Marnier barked something at her in French -- argot, which I didn't understand. A DARKENING STAIN
  • Margot has always spent an inordinate amount of time on her appearance.
  • Cricket, with its googlies, boseys, chinamen, silly legs, byes, sundries - the whole argot - was incomprehensible without deep explanation.
  • Happily, Rowan's efforts are as edgy and buzzing with street life as the argot he describes.
  • She's hanging out with her ex-boyfriend again. argot ; seconde moitié des années 1900. Archive 2010-05-01
  • Margot worked at the restaurant bussing tables, Martin worked at the bowling alley and Fred mopped the floor at the laundromat.
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