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the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
medical missionaries struggling to learn the lingo of the African tribe that they were treating
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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
the shorthand medical lingo that the hospital staffers use with one another
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Recent Examples of lingo
Bowden is a young guy who is well-versed in the lingo of this generation, but I was always taken aback by how many parents went out of their way to single out how good their experiences with him were.
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Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
This series has many of his signatures: officers who take things too personally on account of their painful back stories, police lingo 101 and criminals whose clunky villainy could be ripped from a comic book.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Well, to go back to lame culinary school lingo, because agitation promotes crystallization.
—Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2025
Good luck at learning 2025's lingo Gen Alpha parents!
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 29 Dec. 2024
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Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
This series has many of his signatures: officers who take things too personally on account of their painful back stories, police lingo 101 and criminals whose clunky villainy could be ripped from a comic book.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Well, to go back to lame culinary school lingo, because agitation promotes crystallization.
—Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2025
Good luck at learning 2025's lingo Gen Alpha parents!
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lingo
Noun
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The distinct local vocabulary is sprinkled with Guaraní, an Indigenous language widely spoken in neighboring Paraguay.—
Graciela Mochkofsky,
The New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2025
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Pulp Fiction might be the dictionary of his cinematic vocabulary, offering insights into the language of his other works.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The world of wellness, especially online, can sometimes be a chaotic mix of terminology and memes.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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The Warriors historically don’t practice much at all, so there will be an adjustment period as Butler learns Golden State’s terminology and set plays.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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The Academy didn’t seem to mind, awarding the film 13 Oscar nods, the most for any non-English language film in history.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
8 Feb. 2025
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The social satire became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Director Brady Corbet denied the allegations, saying that stars Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones worked for months with a dialect coach to perfect their characters’ Hungarian accents, and that only the Hungarian portions of the film were adjusted manually using Respeecher technology.—
Zoe G. Phillips,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Feb. 2025
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In his interview with Red Shark News, Jancsó said AI was used to tweak certain parts of the Hungarian dialect spoken by stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist for the sake of accuracy.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Aaliyah Edwards might not be the first name that rolls off the tongue when listing off former UConn women’s basketball players.—
Staff And Wire Reports,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2025
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The story ends up focusing not on the man who could not remain silent, but on a man who held his tongue.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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Although challenges remain, future systems trained on greater amounts of non-English data could be capable of discerning subtle differences between dialects and understanding the meaning and cultural context of slang or Internet memes.—
Anne Neuberger,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Jan. 2025
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Plus, since most of the app's content is in Mandarin, subtitles are suddenly rampant — as are posts from Americans who want to learn the language, including by exchanging translations of popular slang phrases with Chinese commenters.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
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Knowing the correct four-word idioms is a sign of education.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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Glover’s score — for rock band, piano and acoustic strings — evokes pop idioms while politely sidestepping direct quotation.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Lingo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lingo. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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