lingo

These types of initial roundups, dubbed "toppers" in White House press lingo, are usually followed by a long question-and-answer session in the packed room -- often extending to dozens of questions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

In 2019, after a character on his Netflix series “The Kominsky Method” appeared remarkably fluent in church lingo, reports surfaced of pre-TV career church membership.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

In modern lingo, plague is shorthand for something really awful: “I caught the plague last weekend!,”

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

While you might know the lingo that describes what’s happening on the field, the salary-cap gain has a vocabulary all its own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

One of the first things needed when you begin the study of any subject is a little introduction to the "lingo."

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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 William S. Sadler

The Doctor introduced me, with much affectionate effusion and many particulars concerning my family and early history, to the man of unearthly lingoes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various

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 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 Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

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

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