lingo

A New York Wheels is a macadamia almond milk iced latte to go — “wheels” is the lingo the baristas there use for “to go.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Before paying medical bills, contact the provider and ask for an itemized bill that contains current procedural terminology, or CPT, codes, which are basically the lingo and the coding that the medical industry uses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 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

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

"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

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

What a sad neglect in our education, among all the acquired lingoes extant, to have overlooked the Gaelic!

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

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