lingo[noun]Synonyms: dialect, argot, cant, jargon, patois, patter, slang, vernacular
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lin‧go /ˈlɪŋɡəʊ $ -ɡoʊ/
noun [countable usually singular] informal[
Date: 1600-1700;
Language: Provençal;
Origin: lingo 'tongue' or Portuguese lingoa, both from Latin lingua]
1. a language, especially a foreign one:
I’d like to go to Greece, but I don’t speak the lingo.2. words or expressions used only by a particular group of people, or at a particular period of time:
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