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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
Veteran crew members taught the participants how to decipher call sheets, use walkie-talkie lingo and survive 12-hour days on their feet.
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ABC News, 12 Mar. 2026
Different industries use various code words, shorthand, and lingo to communicate.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2026
Sanders, apparently bored by the standard vernacular of police work and not enamored with the work of American journalist and short-story author Damon Runyon, developed his own lingo for his reports.
—Kevin Foster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2026
Scandal rocked the set; lingo like smize, tooch, and flawsome entered the vernacular; and one particular Banks blowup went viral years before the word viral itself went mainstream.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
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ABC News, 12 Mar. 2026
Different industries use various code words, shorthand, and lingo to communicate.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2026
Sanders, apparently bored by the standard vernacular of police work and not enamored with the work of American journalist and short-story author Damon Runyon, developed his own lingo for his reports.
—Kevin Foster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2026
Scandal rocked the set; lingo like smize, tooch, and flawsome entered the vernacular; and one particular Banks blowup went viral years before the word viral itself went mainstream.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lingo
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The propeller hat has become a signature look for the pig — a 4-year-old Vietnamese potbelly named Merlin — who has more than 1 million followers on Instagram, a surprisingly hefty vocabulary and a Guinness World Record.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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The subject matter is deathly serious—international war, unfolding in real time, killing thousands—yet the visual vocabulary is preposterously trivializing.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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With highly specialized terminology, of course.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The terminology for these classes is well-established and often recycled.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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Arghavan runs a small language school that teaches French to Iranians who want to live in the Canadian province of Quebec.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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That language isn’t in the new law.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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Today, many of those words fill out the default dialect of an entire generation — regardless of race, region or class — living online.—
Moriah Humiston,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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The Poison frontman, evoking the regional dialect of his native Pittsburgh, bursts with adrenaline on a typical day.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Yellow roach powder covered the scuffed parquet floors and coated the tongue of Masha the cat, who roamed freely through the complex.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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The woman pauses, runs her tongue over her teeth.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Mogging is internet slang for dominating someone less attractive.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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But alcohol rations for sailors in general had been eliminated many years before Daniels’s ban, and the wine prohibition would have applied only to a small set of officers, too small a group to generate such popular slang.—
Aman Kumar,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
16 Mar. 2026
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An idiom is a phrase that is common to a certain population.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Lingo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lingo. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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