How to Use lingo in a Sentence

lingo

noun
Definition of lingonext
Synonyms for lingonext
  • It can be hard to travel in a foreign country if you don't speak the lingo.
  • The book has a lot of computer lingo that I don't understand.
  • But there was odd lingo slipped into the otherwise mundane posts.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • That’s using mortality as an endpoint, in the lingo of the field.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 10 Aug. 2020
  • In the lingo of epidemiology, this is called source control.
    — Rajeev Venkayya, STAT, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Like so much else in the lingo of U.S. politics, the answer lies in horse racing.
    — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2020
  • When the song first dropped on Friday, Witherspoon also tried her best to channel teen lingo.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 12 July 2020
  • On the one hand, their use of inappropriate business lingo is a big ideological tell.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 11 May 2020
  • Yet, military culture, lingo, chains-of-command, values and experiences are unique.
    — Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • In addition, lots of minorities prefer the company of white working-class people over the pajama-boy wimpy lingo and look of Antifa.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 8 Sep. 2020
  • This experience of sinking into emotional quicksand while bingeing on doom-and-gloom news has become so common that there's internet lingo for it: doomscrolling.
    — Brian X. Chen, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Crop tops, 20-year-old lingo and hoop earrings abound as Alba’s character, Honey, climbs her way to the top only to be brought down by an evil video director.
    — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Corporate lingo is all about obfuscation, group-think, and creating unnecessary work rather than clarity.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • In conservationist lingo, Dallas proper needs to increase its tree canopy from a ghastly 28% to a bare minimum of 35%.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 24 May 2020
  • Adapt, learn the lingo and maybe even eat lunch with the band geeks.
    — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The off-roaders gotta have their own style lingo, dude.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2021
  • In that case, the lingo more or less matches what the Almanac says.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Everything from our lingo, to our style and aura is unique to the world and sets the pace.
    — Essence, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Some of the lingo in the tale, a comic noir set mostly in the 1940s, comes directly from the books and movies of that era.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2022
  • In the lingo of big AI, the dataset contains 500 billion tokens.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse.
    — James Heskett, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021
  • In plumbing lingo, these ridges are called splines or points.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • Kayfabe, a dialect of pig Latin, lingo for the promise to drop at the laying on of hands.
    — Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • So, avoid the buzzy lingo—or at least back it up with actionable words.
    — Jeff Schmitz, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • No worries: there’s a big bubble—trail lingo for the bulge of hikers who start at about the same time in the spring and head up the trail more or less at the same pace.
    — Karen Berger, Outside Online, 28 June 2021
  • When he was hired, the lingo sounded over-the-top and easy to dismiss as the musings of a hyperactive mind.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Collins spent weeks with jockeys, doing grunt work in the barn, learning the lingo, earning their trust.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The stop-motion flow, the lingo, the dances, and the inherent waviness of Brooklyn drill signify the coolest city on the planet.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
  • However, there is a way to break through the marketing lingo to find a toothpaste that’s best for your teeth.
    — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The robbers wanted to be well-versed in bank lingo so they’d be taken seriously.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 June 2024

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