lingo

Wearing a headband, speaking in a strained attempt at hip lingo and calling himself Raww, the creature seems proudly to pander to the audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

I have to hand it to her; Dr. Minerva picked up on my lingo pretty quickly.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

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

This is the history of many such lingoes; but unfortunately Owen’s opinion, even if it be legendary, will not prove that the Painted People spoke the Shelta tongue. 

From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

"All the lingoes you ever heard of are talked in Brest," said the Dutchman.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard

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

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

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