Example sentences for: argot

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

  • It is a very old argot influenced by many languages, including French, English, Italian, Greek, and Hebrew, and was spoken by the gypsies of Spain.

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

  • (Or, as Slate 's crack software development team puts it, in the strange argot of their tribe: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're working on that."

  • 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.


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