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lingo

noun

ˈliŋ-(ˌ)gō

Definition of lingo

as in vocabulary

the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication medical missionaries struggling to learn the lingo of the African tribe that they were treating

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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field the shorthand medical lingo that the hospital staffers use with one another

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Recent Examples of lingo The standard container size today is 20 feet long, 8 feet wide and 9 feet tall, translated as TEU, for 20-foot equivalent container unit, in shipping lingo. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2026 And his influence has even reached everyday lingo. — La'tasha Givens, CBS News, 17 June 2026 At the same time, some of the concepts that dominate fashion industry lingo barely registered among respondents. — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 11 June 2026 The beaches of Normandy, France, were about to become the site of one of the largest amphibious invasions ever, and this day would forever be known as D-Day, the military’s standard lingo for the first day of a major op. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for lingo

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Noun

The long-form video uses the vocabulary of New Age therapy to achieve satirical retail wellness.

— Sharon Edelson, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Having never been exposed to pictures, the children invented their own visual vocabulary.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of vocabulary

Noun

In ordinary tax terminology, income, property, and estate taxes are often described as direct taxes, while sales, excise, and customs duties are generally characterized as indirect taxes.

— Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
The platform will allow students to learn circularity terminology, look at design-stage impact decisions, and explore realistic compliance scenarios.

— Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of terminology

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Jurin keeps working after the conversation ends—across phone, email, web chat and LINE, the messaging app used by the vast majority of Japan’s population—connecting plain language to the software that acts.

— Jurin AI Contributor, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Born and raised in Paris’s Chinatown, Zouaghi’s fluent command of Mandarin led him to teach the Chinese language to students in New York City, and eventually London.

— Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of language

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Researchers have built ArabCulture-Dialogue, the first benchmark for testing whether leading AI models can understand and converse in Modern Standard Arabic and 13 national dialects.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026
But after Carter reset the unit later that year by bringing in new leaders who were native speakers of both the tech world’s dialect and the language of warfighting, the organization succeeded in building a bridge between the two communities.

— Doug Beck, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of dialect

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But Jesus would always emerge out of the darkness again, and scoop out his tongue or sew up his mouth and eyes and then shoot him full of arrows.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Augmental says MouthPad is best suited for people over 18 who have enough tongue dexterity to operate it.

— Jesse Watson , Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of tongue

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Young artists like the members of the Chilean boy band Q_ARE are fusing these elements with Latin music styles, Spanish and English lyrics and Chilean slang to pioneer a uniquely Latino pop subgenre.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026
The latest slang to capture the Gen Z zeitgeist is a way to say poser, try-hard or fraud.

— Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of slang

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There are plenty of idioms to describe Andrean outside hitter Aleece Ehler’s freshman season.

— Noah Poser, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
The Dodgers acquired Skubal in an abundantly predictable bombshell trade with the Detroit Tigers in exchange for a trio of prospects, wanting to test the idiom that a ballclub can never have enough pitching.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026

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