argot

In the argot of the day, Flynn faced “morals charges” carrying a possible five-year prison term.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Regardless of the language, the United Nations has its own argot, too.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

The object, known as 3C273 in the flavorless argot of astronomy, was 3 billion light years away, a good chunk of the way back to the Big Bang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

Greitens — taking refuge in literary argot — has responded that the ad is merely a “metaphor.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022

Every human pastime—music, cooking, sports, art, theoretical physics—develops an argot to spare its enthusiasts from having to say or type a long-winded description every time they refer to a familiar concept in each other’s company.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Melding the argots of Silicon Valley and self-care, Joyous delivers treatment primarily by text message, replete with exclamation points and emojis.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

Youth slang is one of the most consistently refreshing of argots.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016

Include argots – the characteristic language of a particular group – and that number climbs ginormously.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016

Here are some argots peculiar to their groups.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2016

Paris he knew as you and I know the palms of our hands, and he could converse with the precision of the native-born in any one of the city's several odd argots.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance