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Plural
argots
1
a special set of words or expressions used by a particular group, often to keep communication private or exclusive
- The novel is filled with the argot of 19th-century criminals.
- Gamers often speak in an argot unfamiliar to outsiders.
- The detectives struggled to understand the argot used in the intercepted messages.
- Surfers have their own laid-back argot.
- The prison argot was incomprehensible to new inmates.