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noun, plural -goes.

the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual: gamblers' lingo.

language or speech, especially if strange or foreign.

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Origin:
1650–60; apparently alteration of lingua (franca); compare Polari lingo language

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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The shoe salesman has a lingo all of his own, quite incomprehensible to the average customer.

If you're interested in career options at the labs, don't worry about understanding the lingo.

The idea is to make search more focused-"vertical", in the lingo.

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The shoe salesman has a lingo all of his own, quite incomprehensible to the average customer.

If you're interested in career options at the labs, don't worry about understanding the lingo.

The idea is to make search more focused-"vertical", in the lingo.

In the technical lingo this string was known as a topofil.

Young and old, thus, are exposed to the lingo and to scientific procedures and concepts.

His naming system, known as binomial nomenclature, became the standard scientific lingo and is still used today.

That's marketing lingo for what's essentially noise cancellation.

Most stimulus lingo is turning up in campaigns for marketers in categories hardest hit by the recession.

And your ability to speak and understand the lingo will serve you well during your next interview for a full-time position.

Rather than hiring an ebonics expert to understand the lingo of drug dealers, they'd be better off hiring a former drug dealer.

Goat is railroad lingo for the smaller locomotives used for moving rail cars around over short distances.

That's because the insular subculture of this thankless job requires a lingo almost as funky as the work itself.

We're talking standard boiler-plate lingo here--nothing to get upset about.

Honestly, it seems to me that you're the one playing lingo tricks.

Maybe it's the top-gun lingo and ramrod driving posture.

Its longevity in the lingo beyond a reference to temperature is remarkable to slanguists.

The only alternative left will be to inflate our way out of the mess, which is nothing but econ lingo for theft.

What would really be a good study is to measure how often chat lingo creeps into more formal writing.

Keeping up with the latest rough-and-tough football lingo.

Just because graduate students have been around academe awhile doesn't mean they all understand the lingo of the.

The best part of poker is hearing someone recount in so much detail and poker lingo exactly how fate cheated them.

The bureaucratic tangles and mysterious lingo of the health care industry make filling out income tax forms seem simple.

Not that alterna-medicine has cornered the market on cryptic lingo and dubious directives.

Ward's screenplay supplying hoodlum lingo you could cut with a knife and outlining a set of similar shenanigans.

While the reader cannot avoid learning some of the lingo of this tall ship.

Victims or perps, as police lingo has it, they are definitely up against the wall.

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noun, plural -goes.

lingoe.

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lingo (ˈlɪŋɡəʊ)

—n , pl -goes
	informal any foreign or unfamiliar language, jargon, etc

[C17: perhaps from lingua franca; compare Portuguese lingoa tongue]

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Word Origin & History

lingo

"foreign speech," 1660, possibly a corrupt form of lingua franca (q.v.), or from Prov. lingo "language, tongue," from O.Prov. lenga, from L. lingua "tongue" (see lingual).

Slang Dictionary

lingo definition

n.
language; special vocabulary. : When you catch on to the lingo, everything becomes clear.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

Lingo definition

An animation scripting language.
[MacroMind Director V3.0 Interactivity Manual, MacroMind 1991].

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