Sentence examples for * lingo in from inspiring English sources

I'm skeptical of the "poke" lingo, in part because the street is probably the most inaccessible place to get Viagra.

Mr. Miyazaki, who learned Spanish in college, said the students often adopted American lingo in their eagerness to learn.

Nancy's lingo in the updated novel ("Totes OK. Mos def") suggests satisfying contemporary equivalents are hard to find.

In 1938, two Talk of the Town reporters consulted a TV engineer, hoping to master the lingo in advance.

He started as a deckhand, moved up to mate, and became a captain — a "throttle jockey" in tug lingo — in 1992.

After acting in the provinces, primarily at York, he first appeared on the stage in Dublin in 1794 and made his London debut in 1803 in the role of Lingo in The Agreeable Surprize, by the English dramatist Samuel Foote.

If you really say hashtag, LOL, BRB or any other internet-lingo in actual conversation, it might be time to put down the phone.

That resolution established the incentive program for private developers, whereby developers construct public spaces -- plaza "bonuses," in zoning lingo -- in return for bigger buildings.

In the 13th century, the balled coot was a water bird with a white mark on its forehead, lingering in the lingo today in the simile bald as a coot.

Where the play shows real talent is in its acute ear for callous school lingo and in the quality of its observation.

It's unmistakably moulded – let's use Tenacious D lingo here – in the shape of a cock and balls.