Example sentences for: argot

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

  • 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.

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

  • (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."

  • 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.

  • 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.


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