(n.) A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expert view A sneaky, bar-room blow When Alexander Lebedev said he "neutralised" a man by punching him in the face on Russian television, he echoed the dark argot of the KGB, the agency of which he was a member long before spending a slice of his fortune on the Independent and the Evening Standard.
(2) Meanwhile their two sons were trying out their own trash-talking skills in this rather bizarre green screen face off (presumably allowing chroma key footage of dinosaurs and car chases to be added in later): Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Though by the time Mayweather had endured that final bout of dad-dancing at the press conference, even the man who lives for showmanship seemed to have lost his appetite for it: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.38am BST Kevin is back All those knockdowns in the last fight were probably rather avoidable, as Kevin is quick to point out in his latest missive: The referee in the junior-feather (super-bantam in our argot) fight between Leo Santa Cruz from LA and the old Venezuelan Alexander Munoz was one Vic Drakulich.
(3) If you "blow up", to use the argot of the City, your anticipated bonus will not be paid, or it will be much reduced.
(4) It relates the battle of Waterloo and its themes of chance and destiny to the sewers through which Valjean wanders after he has left the barricades; and it links the sewers to the underground slang, the argot, which Hugo delights to record in his prose.
(5) It is hard for me with my Vietnam experience to talk with these recent warriors – the argot, the slang, of war has changed .
(6) But the Mills and Boon argot took on a decidedly less courtly colour overnight, as speculation mounted about the possibility that Clegg might spurn the Tories after all (see – it's hard not to) and return to Labour's close embrace (sorry).
(7) The quickest and most dramatic way to achieve this was by taking an over-familiar garment and, in the argot of the age, "subverting" it.
(8) And, in the dismal argot of the modern British bureaucrat, he has a transferable skill-set which has been put to good use in a rural community.
(9) When Alexander Lebedev said he "neutralised" a man by punching him in the face on Russian television, he echoed the dark argot of the KGB, the agency of which he was a member long before spending a slice of his fortune on the Independent and the Evening Standard.
(10) In the technical argot of economics, this is known as counting your chickens before they are hatched.
(11) Everyone makes a dull record occasionally.” As the 80s went on, so Smash Hits became bolder, eventually inventing its own argot, affectionately mocking the hyperbolic language of pop.
(12) In the dismal argot of the American high street, Salmond has made the SNP the go-to party for Scots on the democratic left.
(13) In the argot of the beat, the figures were "cuffed, skewed, nodded and stitched".
(14) If we appear more critical of the government than of the opposition, it is only because we believe that - excuse cricketing argot - there is no point in bowling to the fielding side.
(15) MK possesses its own argot: suburbs are “gridsquares”, cycle paths are “redways”, vertical and horizontal roads are known as V8 or H3, and the centre is CMK.
(16) "Most people will say it can't be fair for people who have no right to be here in the UK to continue to exist as everybody else does," May said last week, and that was that: to use the argot of the last Tory campaign Crosby masterminded, she's thinking what they're thinking, which is all that matters.
(17) Nothing escapes Hugo's omnivorous collage, not the argot of the criminal underworld, nor songs in dialect, nor the scraps of paper scribbled with revolutionary notes which Hugo loves quoting - incomprehensible fragments, like imported nonsense poems.
Slang
Definition:
() imp. of Sling. Slung.
(n.) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
(n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
(n.) Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.
(v. t.) To address with slang or ribaldry; to insult with vulgar language.
() of Sling
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
(2) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
(3) Downing Street, reluctant to become involved in a slanging match , offered no response to the announcement last night.
(4) (You need to know that "dog" is pejorative slang in America for an ill-favoured woman).
(5) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
(6) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.
(7) Her videos have been "accessorised with black dancers" and she uses US street slang like "rachet" (ghetto-diva) in her lyrics.
(8) It was recommended that more attempts should be made to subdivide measures of social deviancy by means of slang as there is some evidence of possible further differentiation of subcultural types by means of slang.
(9) It was a piece of rag on which was written a message describing a "TOS", jailhouse slang for "terminate on sight".
(10) But it emerged afterwards he was simply using snowboarding slang, meaning to "go big".
(11) It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated.
(12) In my role as a journalist working for TÊTU , the biggest French gay-oriented magazine, I used to think French society was mature enough to face such a debate without resorting to slanging matches.
(13) In Alain's work, the mixture of graceful, sometimes slightly quaint French, Congolese rhythm and Parisian street slang is very complex, but it is a complexity achieved by him as a writer.
(14) According to one reader, who for the sake of his career shall remain nameless, ecstasy tablets on Merseyside at the time owed their nickname to a piece of rhyming slang derived from the former Liverpool defender Gary Ablett.
(15) All the classic ingredients of tabloid fare are there: vast wealth, broken promises, honour, shame, "krysha" – Russian for "roof" but a slang term meaning "protection" – and a few chateaux, yachts and flamboyant women thrown in too.
(16) Richard McLaren receives ‘deluge’ of requests after Wada doping report Read more “I don’t want to get into a slanging match with the IOC about the way they’ve handled it.
(17) It turned into a slanging match in which the Iranians came to the assistance of the Russians.
(18) Indeed, the recent dustup about supposedly fixed parliamentary elections was essentially a slanging-match between the Blairite pressure group Progress (largely funded by Lord Sainsbury, and founded by people close to such über-New Labour types as Peter Mandelson), and the trade union Unite, whose leader Len McCluskey has recently been heard bemoaning the power held by "Oxbridge Blairites".
(19) Jungle don mature” [the jungle has matured] goes the Nigerian slang meaning: “the game is on.” It is a phrase on the lips of more than one Nigerian political commentator and aptly describes the tension as Africa’s most populous nation gears up for presidential elections just eight weeks away.
(20) Conrad also took Kimball to task for his lack of understanding of much of the slang Tsarnaev used in his tweets.