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