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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
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
I quickly started to pick up on their lingo and style, the swagger of my new teammates and neighborhood friends.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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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
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
I say, HUM," says FUM—FUM, of course, spoke Chinese, But, bless you! that's nothing—at Brighton one sees Foreign lingoes and Bishops translated with ease— "I say, HUM, how fares it with Royalty now?
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
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
"Gosh, he can nearly keep still in two lingoes," thought Mr. Cassidy.
From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Clarence Edward Mulford
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