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Meanings of lingo in English

Portuguese
jargão
Catalan
llengua vernacla
Spanish
patois

A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

      jargão
      Usage of lingo in English
      1
      Why don't all of the PRT team members speak the local lingo?
      Wired
      2
      A common lingo naturally sprang up like the Pigeon English of China.
      Lectures and Essays
      3
      An hour in LA and she was already speaking the local lingo.
      Hostile intent
      4
      But it wasn't the lingo that got me; it was the voice.
      The Vultures
      5
      That's because I know all the gymnastics lingo that my daughters use.
      Wired
      6
      He switched back to the lower-level lingo, the language of education, authority.
      Leviathan Wakes
      7
      Climbing is certainly one of the most lingo-intensive sports in the world.
      Climbing Magazine
      8
      Jord Parma knew his priestly lingo well and did his job magnificently.
      Foundation
      9
      When you go on your travels it helps to know the lingo.
      The Irish Times
      10
      Talk football lingo as if you was still out of your haid.
      The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
      11
      I'm sure you've had considerable experience in his lingo by this time.
      The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole
      12
      A moment later he reappeared forward, wild-eyed and spluttering his own lingo.
      The Blood Ship
      13
      No, I can polish up my lingo with the best of 'em.
      Ronicky Doone
      14
      But the Kabyle lingo's quite different-Berber ,orsomething racy of the soil.
      The Golden Silence
      15
      They are chatterboxes, whose lingo we are not sharp enough to master.
      Yet Again
      16
      Good beds, good food, and, thank God, one can speak the lingo.
      The Happy Foreigner
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      Translations for lingo
      Spanish
      patois
      Lingo through the time
      Lingo across language varieties
      United Kingdom
      Common
      United States of America
      Common