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lingos

noun , plural of lingo

variants: or lingoes

Synonyms and Antonyms of lingos

1 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

Synonyms of lingos

languages, mother tongues, speeches, tongues, vocabularies

Words Related to lingos

argots, cants, colloquials, dialects, idiolects, idioms, jargons, parlances, patois, patter, pidgins, slangs, slanguages, vernaculars

colloquialisms, localisms, provincialisms, regionalisms, shibboleths, vernacularisms

coinages, modernisms, neologisms

2 the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field

the shorthand medical lingo that the hospital staffers use with one another

Synonyms of lingos

argots, cants, dialects, jargons, jives, languages, patois, patter, shops, shoptalk, slangs, terminologies, vocabularies

Words Related to lingos

colloquials, colloquialisms, idioms, localisms, parlances, pidgins, provincialisms, regionalisms, speeches, vernaculars, vernacularisms

bureaucrateses, computereses, cyberspeaks, educationeses, governmenteses, journaleses, technobabbles

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