Sentence examples for lingo meaning from inspiring English sources
That decline means more and more homeowners are saddled with "impaired mortgages" (to use the current lingo), meaning their homes are worth less than what they owe on them.
As patients entered, they were "cohorted," in medical lingo, meaning that they were separated from the general population and quarantined in a 40-foot hallway (normally a psychiatric emergency area), lined with molded plastic chairs, sealed by glass doors at either end, a giant fish tank of people in face masks.
That's what the lingo means, "to help regional forces remove from the battlefield," meaning capture or kill. .
The earlier studies had each been "single-arm," in the lingo of clinical trials, meaning there had been no comparison group.
In the 1960's, it was adopted in drug lingo as a verb, to freak out, meaning "to rave under the influence of hallucinatory drugs".
Like the Kindle Fire, Amazon's iPad-like tablet, its phone is powered by a modified ("forked" in the lingo) version of Google's Android operating system, meaning it comes without Google's stamp of approval and its services.
The locution to be there for you, meaning "capable, reliable, to be depended upon," reached the general lingo in the 1920's, and its most recent sense of "to be nurturing, comforting" began with a religious overtone in 1981.
The Russian queer-lingo for those places where quick meetings might take places was "pleshka," meaning literally a "bald spot," and one of the main attractions of "The Lenin Museum" is a 9-painting series called... what else?... "Pleshkas of the Revolution".
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