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lingo

noun as in dialect spoken by a group

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He's poured a metaphorical can of Australian beer over the novel by converting Tolstoy's prose into a lingo that wouldn't sound out of place in the popular Aussie sitcom Kath & Kim.

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When you started at Google in 2015, having just left Morgan Stanley, how confusing was the lingo, given your background in finance?

If someone is using surfer lingo after the game — stoked! — you’ll know it was a good night for the Breakers.

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A few of these reports have included amusing “to be sure” paragraphs, to use trade lingo: brief acknowledgments of some contrary argument or analogous trend.

In the healthcare and insurance lingo we’ve all been forced to learn and use in recent years, this was a “well visit.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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