Word

jargon, n.
(jargons)
freq. cnt. 1

a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
<noun.communication> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

argot cant jargon lingo patois slang vernacular

sample sentences

"they don't speak our lingo"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

slangy slang

member of this domain (usage)

bennie cat stiff baddie

semantic pointers

member of this domain (usage)

square, straight crocked, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet can-do freaky uncool butch grotty some mean bolshy, stroppy pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off slam-bang plumb, clean, plum drop-dead bite swiz heist, rip-off shakedown power trip fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup cock sucking, blowjob jacking off, jerking off, hand job, wank dekko square-bashing shakedown caff deck gat, rod Mickey Finn nick schlock, shlock, dreck cert legs soup-strainer, toothbrush arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy niff, pong corker stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop skin flick dibs bunfight, bun-fight burnup nosh-up hood 'hood poor white trash, white trash whitey, honky, honkey, honkie Redskin, Injun, red man kike, hymie, sheeny, yid chink, Chinaman wop, dago, ginzo, Guinea, greaseball Jap, Nip spic, spik, spick Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun airhead bad egg boffin butch, dike, dyke good egg guvnor old man out-and-outer schlockmeister, shlockmeister squeeze suit tripper wog juice pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money key skinful juice the shits, the trots jitters, heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies bitch give buy it, pip out feel hoof chuck, ditch bunk off, play hooky

hyponym

street name rhyming slang

hypernym

non-standard speech

specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
<noun.communication>

jargon

semantic pointers

hypernym

style, expressive style

hyponym

doctorspeak ecobabble Eurobabble gobbledygook psychobabble technobabble

a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
<noun.substance>

jargon jargoon

semantic pointers

hypernym

zircon, zirconium silicate