Sentence examples for lingo in from inspiring English sources

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She says: "It was the same old jargon… the same old fifties lingo in disguise.

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.

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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.

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

Was the music interrupted by two adolescent male voices jabbering trucker lingo?… In the early nineteen-seventies, my Uncle Walter, who wasn't a "real" uncle but had a better intuition about my hobbies and interests than some of… Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in the Meuse Valley, in eastern France, in September , 1918

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

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