A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
A secret or private language used by various groups to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.
1Sadie had, in the argot of the day, a really good built.
2The new argot is just a different way of masking old anxieties.
3I forgot that you lived in a world unsullied by such argot.
4He played, drank, talked argot, and cast off every shred of reserve.
5Also now he employed some of the argot of the underworld:
6His simple French, innocent of argot, had a good country twang.
7I detest jargon of every kind, except for sailor's argot and pirate slang.
8This argot had come straight from his graduate school days in the United States.
9So I answered him in the mother argot at a venture, and he bit.
10And I was immediately in danger of drowning in a whirl pool of argot.
11In the criminal argot a counterfeit American twenty-dollar gold piece is called a 'horse.'
12To borrow the current managerial argot, England have been too soft around the edges.
13I wanted to tell him not to use what he evidently thought was thieves' argot.
14I recognized at a glance, in this incomprehensible farrago, the argot of the true alchemist.
15The vilest thoughts, uttered in the low argot of Paris, were much affected by them.
16As I recall, she only spoke French to us, argot at that. Arthur looked stunned.