argot

• But we all know that there are thousands of words in everyday speech which never get recorded in dictionaries - slang, argot, colloquialisms of all kinds (such as the hundreds of words for saying you're drunk).
• In Market Time argot, a "boarding" meant a search of the vessel by one or more crew members, and "inspecting" meant merely conducting a visual examination while alongside as well as checking identification and manifest papers. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
• The quotes concerning the naming of the boats by their crews and the demonstration of Mobile Riverine Force argot were both taken from a newsletter dated 31 May 1967 sent home to the families of the Mobile Riverine Force sailors (a "family gram" in Navy jargon) by Commodore Wells. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
• Yale had taught me none of these things There was also a Creole argot, of which I understood a few words: the women called me bras-coupé, after a famous one-armed bandit of an hundred years before, or bête-marron, meaning a tame beast gone wild. —  FSF,March2008
• But after years of formal study of a language - any language - it's nice to know that its native speakers have their own argot, their own way of flavoring their classical language to adapt it to their needs. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home

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