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Example sentences for: parlance

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In Southern parlance, a bait ment more than enough.
' To shift fields: art movements, in particular, often identify themselves through the addition of a syllable to a word in common parlance.
Other folks say that an operating system is just the core functionality (or in computer parlance, the kernel) necessary to run the chips in your machine.
In American theater parlance, the term gag is used frequently to differentiate funny lines in a movie script or stage comedy from mere jokes that are exchanged indiscriminately in everyday life.
Safire dismisses the exculpatory remarks by Hubbell concerning Hillary's innocence, etc. as what FBI parlance calls "tickling the wire"--producing self-serving statements because you know you are being overheard.