as in terminology
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
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Recent Examples of shoptalk
These were often portraits of people at work—jockeys, preachers, movie stars—that showcase the indiscriminate pleasure Crews took in shoptalk.
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Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
The house rule is that shoptalk is verboten on Saturdays.
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Sue Reilly,
Peoplemag,
13 Feb. 2024
In between performances and shoptalk, Saul and Caprice are drawn into overlapping intrigues involving a dead child and an inner-beauty pageant.
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New York Times,
2 June 2022
The numb shoptalk of consulates?
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Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes,
23 Sep. 2021
In shoptalk, this is called the 5:2 diet.
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Mark Barna,
Discover Magazine,
2 Mar. 2018
My mother was becoming increasingly wary of the stir-crazy shoptalk from a group of 40-year-old guys who were three trail beers away from skiing down the mountain to their deaths.
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Kaitlin Phillips,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2018
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
The house rule is that shoptalk is verboten on Saturdays.
—
Sue Reilly,
Peoplemag,
13 Feb. 2024
In between performances and shoptalk, Saul and Caprice are drawn into overlapping intrigues involving a dead child and an inner-beauty pageant.
—
New York Times,
2 June 2022
The numb shoptalk of consulates?
—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes,
23 Sep. 2021
In shoptalk, this is called the 5:2 diet.
—
Mark Barna,
Discover Magazine,
2 Mar. 2018
My mother was becoming increasingly wary of the stir-crazy shoptalk from a group of 40-year-old guys who were three trail beers away from skiing down the mountain to their deaths.
—
Kaitlin Phillips,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoptalk
Noun
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Learning about their industry and its terminology would be a huge task for me.
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Every major technology shift creates terminology confusion.
Noun
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There is no real vocabulary and no grammar.
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Is retirement in your vocabulary at all?
Noun
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Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.
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Ultimately the difficulty of the task was what led him to sign on, which involved working with three different dialect coaches and studying with a Cuban professor named Rafael Rojas.
Noun
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AIs can communicate with us using our language.
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Mamdani, proud of his socialist values, had developed a language for communicating a collective, interdependent vision of city life through his consistent emphasis on affordability.
Noun
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
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How did the name Go-Go being used as slang for parties come about?
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“Shoptalk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoptalk. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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