Example sentences for: argot

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

  • Expressions and vocabulary used by Chicanos today come from the pachuco argot of the 1940s.

  • 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.

  • A great deal of argot appears to be ordinary language — not only in the English-speaking sunderworld.

  • 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.

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


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