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the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
medical missionaries struggling to learn the lingo of the African tribe that they were treating
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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the shorthand medical lingo that the hospital staffers use with one another
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Recent Examples of lingo
The progressive lingo of years past is gone.
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Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Find your people Dubrow also leads a Special Interest Group — SIG, in OLLI lingo — called Discovering Classical Vocal Recitals.
—Kelley Bruss, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
In architecture lingo, Rudolph thought intensely in terms of section — about vertical space — over plan or what is a traditional layout.
—Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2026
They’ve also been known to read internal Slack message boards to pick up on corporate lingo and acronyms and to find out who to target for permissions to systems.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Jan. 2026
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Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Find your people Dubrow also leads a Special Interest Group — SIG, in OLLI lingo — called Discovering Classical Vocal Recitals.
—Kelley Bruss, Dallas Morning News, 14 Jan. 2026
In architecture lingo, Rudolph thought intensely in terms of section — about vertical space — over plan or what is a traditional layout.
—Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2026
They’ve also been known to read internal Slack message boards to pick up on corporate lingo and acronyms and to find out who to target for permissions to systems.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Jan. 2026
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Noun
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Her outfit stayed inside Browne’s gray suit vocabulary, layering a glen-check blazer with strong shoulders layered over a matching waist panel and pleated detail at the hip, finished with the brand’s red-white-blue grosgrain tab at the hem.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Moira, a career-capping (and Emmy-winning) role in the comedy created by Eugene and son Dan Levy, brought O’Hara legions of new fans — and elevated a new vocabulary.—
Jocelyn Noveck,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Every day, the two connect via WhatsApp to go over what happened in training that day, from tactics and film to terminology and expectations.—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2026
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With modern terminology, the anti-liberal playbook of the 1950s has returned, once more, by conflating progressive politics with communism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Each class is a one- hour adventure of hearing and speaking another language.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Its sequel Dhurandhar 2 is scheduled for theatrical release March 19, 2026, in five languages — Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam — expanding significantly beyond the original's Hindi-only strategy.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Steven Gebelin, who represented Puig in 2021 and 2022, testified at trial that his then-client tried to be helpful during the interview but, because the interpreter’s Spanish dialect differed from Puig’s, his answers were translated poorly.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Puig’s former attorney Steven Gebelin testified that during the January 2022 interview, Puig tried to be helpful in answering the investigators’ questions and the interpreter struggled with Puig’s Spanish dialect, according to the New York Times.—
Jaimie Ding,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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After 35 rounds of radiation and painful robotic surgery on his tongue, Coulier can finally begin to recover from his cancer battle.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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This neutral running shoe has a slim, knitted tongue that floats over the top of your feet, locking them in without applying uncomfortable pressure.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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Pachuco was a term used for Mexican American men in the 1930s and 40s who wore flashy zoot suits, spoke their own slang and formed a small but notable countercultural scene in Los Angeles.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Jan. 2026
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Indiana, to quote Gen Alpha slang, is mid, literally.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
13 Jan. 2026
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But as the practice evolved, eager writers like Jefferson and John Adams (but not George Washington or James Madison, for instance), gravitated to a richer, sympathy-bearing idiom, which no doubt bled into intimate speech, now lost.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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All's fair in love and war — an idiom that Cressida (second from left, played by Jessica Madsen) and her meddling mama would do well to remember while courting the Prince!—
Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Lingo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lingo. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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