Argot (Noun)
Meaning
A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The argot of the jazz musicians was a colorful mixture of slang and jargon that only they could understand.
- In the inner city, the local youth had developed their own argot that was incomprehensible to outsiders.
- The thieves' argot was full of cryptic expressions and code words that allowed them to communicate without being detected.
- The computer hackers had their own argot, full of technical terms and abbreviations that were unintelligible to non-experts.
- The old sailors had a distinctive argot that was peppered with nautical terms and sea-faring slang.