lingo

If you think his millennial lingo is a sign that he lacks judgment in other areas, you can tell him that “you guyses” are splitting up with him.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

“I know the lingo and how to communicate with them. And I think the reception to the story has been quite strong, in that it’s very differentiated to other quantum stories.”

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

If the Labour Party is up the creek without a paddle after last week, to revert to Yank lingo, it also finds itself in an anomalous position.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

There's a lot of astro-jargon involved in space missions, and TLI is the latest space lingo many of those following this mission have come to know.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

And if our readers do know the lingo, we might be insulting their intelligence by spelling it out.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

I had thought—and had hoped—that both these actor-created lingoes were happily obsolete; but in their full flower of perfection I now heard them here in London.

From Europe Revised by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

"How do I know any such thing—that is, for a certainty—while you keep cruising amongst so many lingoes, as Tom there says?"

From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael

I say, HUM," says FUM—FUM, of course, spoke Chinese, But, bless you! that's nothing—at Brighton one sees Foreign lingoes and Bishops translated with ease— "I say, HUM, how fares it with Royalty now?

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

"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 Stuart, Ruth McEnery

Every child suffering from warts usually passes through the stage of charms and lingoes which are popularly used to remove these disagreeable growths.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.