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[ US /ˈɫɪŋɡoʊ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪŋɡə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
    they don't speak our lingo

How To Use lingo In A Sentence

  • Arm yourself with Eejit's ‘Film Lingo’ and you'll soon know your cookie from your cutaway, your capture card from your chromakey, so you can easily cut to your closeup.
  • Lingonberries or cowberries are the fruit of a European relative of the cranberry, V. vitis-idaea; they have a distinctive, complex flavor. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • And resolve to learn the lingo. Times, Sunday Times
  • Buss her, wap in rogues 'rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell! Ulysses
  • ( "There's no" K "in Klingon, and that's that!" he insisted, illustrating the raspy, back-of-the-throat "kh" - type consonants he'd woven into the lingo instead). Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon
  • The first clue came from the olinguito's teeth and skull, which were smaller and differently shaped than those of olingos.
  • But not all of us are familiar with the street lingo of hardline hackers. Exploring language (6th edn)
  • And resolve to learn the lingo. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
  • There is no end of 'paddies' along this river, and I'm sure they cannot understand your lingo. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
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