Example sentences for: argot

How can you use “argot” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They don't like it, they wish it had never come to this, but they don't identify with, in antiseptic doctor argot, the "products of conception."

  • A revised edition of half of The Argot also exists.

  • Large numbers of young men from El Paso, speaking the pachuco argot, settled in Los Angeles during the early 1940s, and it was there that they became recognized as an identifiable group, and considered to be gang members.

  • Thirty-five obviously feels that these terms which are not specific to the sub-group have assumed a special place in the `argot,' or are used intensively in the underworld or in prison.

  • Nor is it easy to determine its origins, although historically an argot known as pelting speech was employed by bands of ne'er-do-wells in Elizabethan England.


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