Words similar to lingo
Example sentences for: lingo
How can you use “lingo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
McCarthy excels in the laconic, colloquial dialogue of his Texas and New Mexico cowboys, and the untranslated lingo of his Mexican characters generally rings true as well.
In ranch lingo branding often implies vaccination, castration, and ear-marking as well.
American cowboys, perhaps confusing the Spanish dale with English dally, began to understand, maybe at the cost of an eye or two, and in their own lingo called the rawhide lariats dally ropes . That, at least, was the etymology current in Southern Arizona, which was plausible enough to convince me.
I'd like to add a word to Harry Cohen's delightful list in “Jingo Lingo” [XVI, 4].
The book preaches this now familiar creed to the multitudes; Shlaes uses folksy lingo and homespun anecdotes to give her message a warmly populist glow.