lingo

There’s sculling lingo to learn — eight seat, catching a crab, puddles, the engine room, rushing the slide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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

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

“Tons of things. Hard to remember all the names now, you know. Was speaking the lingo like a native by the time I left.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

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

That the requisite number of individuals well acquainted with some of the outlandish lingoes which had to be grappled with proved to be forthcoming, is a matter of surprise and a subject for congratulation.

From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell

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