Sentence examples for the lingo for from inspiring English sources

Anderson's first job in Washington was as a researcher — a legman, in the lingo — for the journalist Drew Pearson, the muckraking founder of "Washington Merry-Go-Round".

In general, here's the lingo for haircut length: haircuts done with clippers are described by the number of the guard used.

It's the lingo for someone who is married but might as well be a bachelor because they're stuck with unaccompanied orders.

I did this for myriad reasons -- for the golf, for the lingo, for Noonan -- but mostly I did it in the spirit of Andy Dufresne: Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'.

"That's very Seventh Avenue, for the lingo of somebody who has worked in the industry for a long time," LaForce said.

In his masterpiece "Kim," Kipling did the same for the lingo of Russo-British rivalry ("the great game"), but Chandler and le Carré devised, as they say, an entire world, increasingly detailed and comprehensive, a joy for adepts and for the quickly initiated.

These chiringuitos -- the local lingo for the bars and restaurants built in the sand -- dot the Spanish coast.

"The lingo of a pub game for fatties besmirching the commentary of the toughest endurance sport in the world.

As I nursed some sore toes, I looked up both "up for that" and "down with that" on urbandictionary.com, the go-to site for learning the lingo of the hip.

"S was frustrated and embarrassed" by the lack of U.S. action, one official told me using the lingo S for Secretary of State.

The therapeutic community has just the fancy lingo for this.