Example sentences for: argot

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

  • And every gang wants its own argot, a test by which a potential recruit can be measured: if you don't know the language, very often you cannot get in; or, if you are already in, not knowing the latest key words can be disastrous for your credibility.

  • Convicts shipped to Australia spoke a criminal argot described by James Hardy Vaux as flash language in his New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language of 1812.

  • Some of these idioms are the pachuco dialect, Chicano Spanish, New Mexico colonial Spanish, south Texas vocabulary, caló, and the argot of the tirilones of El Paso.

  • Its domain is clearly more extensive than the range of argot or slang.

  • The political movements that support English as an official language are not threatened by Breton, Basque, or Boontling (a moribund argot spoken in a town in Northern California).


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