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shoptalk

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Synonyms and Antonyms of shoptalk

the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field

eventually, he got bored with the shoptalk of the nuclear engineers, which he barely understood

Synonyms of shoptalk

argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patois, patter, shop, slang, terminology, vocabulary

Words Related to shoptalk

colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism

bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble

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