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