argot

Example Sentences

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Characters speak in modern slang, Shakespearean verse, ’80s pop lyrics and that timeless argot of clumsy melodrama.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

That’s at work here, too — an effort to gather up the fragments of a woman’s life and argot and make of it something whole.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 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