lingo

Neither of those are on the menu, so you have to know the lingo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

In Wall Street lingo, approval “de-risks” the drug from being an experiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Vance’s efforts to seem hip come across as forced, as if he has never met a fellow millennial and can only approximate their lingo and cadence from reading old magazine reviews of movies like “Clueless.”

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

"Why are we getting into the lingo of Gen Z?" she asked.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Pollard, in the lingo of jockeys, asked Seabiscuit the question.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Well, of all the lingoes I iver heard," said Flathootly, "this is the worst case yet.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

Men may learn strange lingoes to humour their fellow-men, but how can any dog be expected to understand "Viens ici"?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 by Various

"Gosh, he can nearly keep still in two lingoes," thought Mr. Cassidy.

From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Clarence Edward Mulford

The young man's father was a consul; and he has half a dozen foreign lingoes stowed away in his brain.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

"I been listenin' good, an' I hear 'em jabber, jabber, jabber all dey fanciful lingoes, but I 'ain't heern nair one say polly fronsay, an' yit I know dats de riverend book French."

From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Ruth McEnery Stuart