Definitions for lingo

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lingo lin·go

Spelling: [ling-goh]

IPA: /ˈlɪŋ goʊ/

Lingo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in lingo (gilno).

Definitions for lingo

noun

1. the language and speech, especially the jargon, slang, or argot, of a particular field, group, or individual:
2. language or speech, especially if strange or foreign.
3. lingoe.
4. a metal weight attached to the cords of a Jacquard harness, for lowering the warp threads after they have been raised and for keeping the harness cords taut.
5. the same object attached to a drawloom.

Origin of lingo

1650-60; apparently alteration of lingua (franca); compare Polari lingo “language”

Examples for lingo

The “no-diet diet” lingo may sound trendy, but the idea has been around for decades.

She taught me the lingo and one or two other things; but what happened?

I can talk to the men—well it is that I know their lingo sufficiently for that.

But Cunningham had to have you, because you know the Malay lingo.

She may be disappointed about the false appropriation of such Twilight lingo.

To use the lingo he used, it would be a medical “procedural.”

The men had all sorts of lingo and acronyms that they used to review the services of the women they procured erotic services from.

There is no end of 'paddies' along this river, and I'm sure they cannot understand your lingo.

She had curly hair and they would finger it and talk in their lingo.

So I picked up a lot of the lingo from sitting and listening to them.