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Slim Gaillard's Vout dictionary: jazz hipster argot from the 30s. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Oh well, the stir, or the pen, as they call it in convict argot, is a training school for philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
The 'argot' to which you doubtless refer was the invention of certain of your literary. From Wordnik.com. [Whirligigs] Reference
The argot of Tsingani, the dialect of the Dalriada. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
"To blow" is, especially in the jazz argot, to play music. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Ramble On Rose"] Reference
This phrase entered the Cameronian argot, and is used to this day. From Wordnik.com. [Sloganeering] Reference
But in the argot of the New Right, he was never really "" one of us. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Not In Kansas Anymore] Reference
In the argot of the blousards he is known as the Chevalier of the Hook. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
Yet Steele's entire interview with the Times is laced with an odd argot. From Wordnik.com. [John Ridley: Michael Steele Gets Funky for the RNC] Reference
The quirky tics and argot of the Radlett family are the Mitfords 'to a T. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Laughter] Reference
It was one of the eunuchs who addressed me, speaking in the zenyan argot. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
"Looks as if it would hold," he said in thieves 'argot as he turned around. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
Grove, which during several weeks rang with Parisian argot and Parisian fun. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
In the argot of another Vegas big shot, the Amazing Kreskin, what a mind meld!. From Wordnik.com. [Danke Schoen, Mr. Las Vegas] Reference
Vendors bellowed over the noise to hawk their fried argot wings and cold beer. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
The multiracial teens talk a careless mixture of Valley-speak and hip-hop argot. From Wordnik.com. [Drugs, Sex, Whatever] Reference
In the criminal argot a counterfeit American twenty-dollar gold piece is called a 'horse.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
The wayfarer stood in the middle of the road, hurling imprecations in the choicest argot at. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Will even go so far as to adopt a particualr parlance or argot given a particular audience. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Oprah Weekend All Over Local Press] Reference
Much as though the Communist argot may inspire him, Britain has no vacancy for a Dear Leader. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Having to read out the New Labour newspeak was bad enough, but the Brownian argot is dreadful. From Wordnik.com. [MPs should ask what they have done to preserve Parliament's stature] Reference
(It was television, of course, that had given Myrtle this easy familiarity with criminal argot.). From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
Wooden Cross and a little garden growing over your tummy, 'is the way they put it in their argot. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
Brand equity, that perennially overused bit of marketing argot, does actually have real monetary value. From Wordnik.com. [World's Most Valuable Brands: Brand Finance (PHOTOS)] Reference
Rather than a difficult, Anthony Burgesslike future argot, Mark E Smith speaks a language we understand. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - all mud and witches] Reference
Where there is much more "commonality of purpose," to use the think-tank argot, is on the electoral front. From Wordnik.com. [Gerhard-Bill-Lionel-Tonyism?] Reference
They discussed it in the idiom of Ortygia, the mixed argot of the foreign troops, thick with the terms of their trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
In the argot of the area, Makawi was a "collaborator" -- one of hundreds, if not thousands, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. From Wordnik.com. [Death by Firing Squad] Reference
Merely explaining it took the better part of the morning, accomplished in a babble of tongues, with the zenyan argot pervading. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Three mothers sit in the living room of a temporary residence called Casa Rita in the Bronx and speak of this in the argot of poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids] Reference
Gladly I went in and out of the women's cabins and listened to the argot of the men; my own ruling, administering, soldiering little lot. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
He currently has five bikes – or "steeds" in his argot – but this book follows his quest to build one dream machine "to grow old with". From Wordnik.com. [It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels by Robert Penn] Reference
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