LINGO (lingoes)

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lingo mean? 

• LINGO (noun)
  The noun LINGO has 1 sense:

1. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

  Familiarity information: LINGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINGO (noun)

Meaning:

A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

argot; jargon; lingo; patois; vernacular; slang; cant

Context example:

they don't speak our lingo

Hypernyms ("lingo" is a kind of...):

non-standard speech (speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community)

Domain member usage:

bite (a portion removed from the whole)

heist; rip-off (the act of stealing)

shakedown (extortion of money (as by blackmail))

square-bashing (drill on a barracks square)

shakedown (a very thorough search of a person or a place)

caff (informal British term for a cafe)

deck (street name for a packet of illegal drugs)

gat; rod (a gangster's pistol)

Mickey Finn (slang term for knockout drops)

nick ((British slang) a prison)

dreck; schlock; shlock (merchandise that is shoddy or inferior)

cert (an absolute certainty)

legs (staying power)

soup-strainer; toothbrush (slang for a mustache)

bay window; corporation; pot; potbelly; tummy (slang for a paunch)

niff; pong (an unpleasant smell)

corker ((dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person)

hooey; poppycock; stuff; stuff and nonsense (senseless talk)

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)

applesauce; codswallop; folderol; rubbish; trash; tripe; trumpery; wish-wash (nonsensical talk or writing)

skin flick (a pornographic movie)

bun-fight; bunfight ((Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion)

burnup (a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road)

nosh-up (a large satisfying meal)

'hood ((slang) a neighborhood)

Jap; Nip ((offensive slang) a person of Japanese descent)

airhead (a flighty scatterbrained simpleton)

baby; sister ((slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women)

bad egg ((old-fashioned slang) a bad person)

boffin ((British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research)

good egg ((old-fashioned slang) a good person)

guvnor ((British slang) boss)

old man ((slang) boss)

out-and-outer (someone who is excellent at something)

schlockmeister; shlockmeister ((slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise)

squeeze ((slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend)

tripper ((slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations)

wog ((offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia)

juice (electric current)

big bucks; big money; bundle; megabucks; pile (a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit))

key (a kilogram of a narcotic drug)

skinful (a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk)

juice (energetic vitality)

the shits; the trots (obscene terms for diarrhea)

heebie-jeebies; jitters; screaming meemies (extreme nervousness)

bitch (an unpleasant difficulty)

bumf; bumph (toilet paper (often used for printed matter that might as well be used as toilet paper))

give (occur)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

feel (pass one's hands over the sexual organs of)

hoof (dance in a professional capacity)

chuck; ditch (throw away)

bunk off; play hooky (play truant from work or school)

square; straight (rigidly conventional or old-fashioned)

besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; potty; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tiddley; tiddly; tight; tipsy; wet (very drunk)

can-do (marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done)

freaky (strange and somewhat frightening)

uncool ((spoken slang) unfashionable and boring)

grotty (very unpleasant or offensive)

some (remarkable)

built; stacked; well-stacked (well or attractively formed with respect to physique)

mean (excellent)

bolshy; stroppy (obstreperous)

pint-size; pint-sized; runty; sawed-off; sawn-off (well below average height)

slam-bang (violent and sudden and noisy)

clean; plum; plumb (completely; used as intensifiers)

drop-dead (extremely)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lingo"):

street name (slang for something (especially for an illegal drug))

rhyming slang (slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component)