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  • noun Plural form of lingo.

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Examples

  • GRIFFIN: I don't, but Josh Levs, this is by design up there in D.C. They like to slip in these lingoes so no one knows what the heck they're saying.

    CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2009 2009

  • First, let's begin with you, Dana, so what is the lingoes (ph), where do they stand?

    CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2009 2009

  • "Governor, if you want my humble opinion, with the height we've got, and those bedroom eyelashes we don't know what to do with, and all the ladies we've got up our sleeve, I would say we are a lot of people under one helmet, which is why we do the lingoes so nice."

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • "Governor, if you want my humble opinion, with the height we've got, and those bedroom eyelashes we don't know what to do with, and all the ladies we've got up our sleeve, I would say we are a lot of people under one helmet, which is why we do the lingoes so nice."

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • But so far was Bruin from entertaining the least suspicion, that he encouraged me to begin a conversation with my mistress in a language unknown to him, by telling her, that he had a gentleman who could jabber with her in French and other foreign lingoes as fast as she pleased; then, turning to me, said,

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Finally the English officer, a great lanky fellow with his trouser leg half torn off and a bloody bandage round his knee, succeeded in wrenching the banner away, but the Frog officer, who was about four feet tall, grabbed an end of it, and they came stumbling down in my direction, yelling at each other in their respective lingoes, with their crews joining in.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • Every child suffering from warts usually passes through the stage of charms and lingoes which are popularly used to remove these disagreeable growths.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • We hardly see any efficacy in "bean-ie, bean-ie take this wart away," or any particular virtue in stealing mother's dishcloth, cutting it up into as many pieces as there are warts on the hand and rubbing each wart with a separate piece of the cloth; but you will find people in every town or village who will assure you that their warts were driven away by one of these charms or lingoes.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • Men may learn strange lingoes to humour their fellow-men, but how can any dog be expected to understand

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 Various

  • Siamese, Englishmen and Yanks, who negotiate and this interchange of wares manage to conduct the bargaining in their various lingoes by the aid of a polyglot dialect of their own, chuckling over the dollars and cash and cowries as they rake them in with the impression that they are getting the best of the deal, when all the time, perhaps, they are being cheated themselves!

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

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