Words similar to argot
Example sentences for: argot
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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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