lingo

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

The word “hawk” in Fed lingo is associated with officials committed to raising rates to tamp down inflation, even if it means some damage to the economy, such as rising unemployment.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Pollard, in the lingo of jockeys, asked Seabiscuit the question.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

"How do I know any such thing—that is, for a certainty—while you keep cruising amongst so many lingoes, as Tom there says?"

From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott

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

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

"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

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