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lingolin‧go /ˈlɪŋɡəʊ $ -ɡoʊ/ noun [countable usually singular] informal lingoOrigin: 1600-1700 Provençal lingo ‘tongue’ or Portuguese lingoa, both from Latin lingua - "Deliver the package" is pilot lingo for dropping a bomb on a target.
- He picked up the local lingo straight away.
- I'd like to go to Greece, but I don't speak the lingo.
- Travelling in Spain is much easier if you can speak the lingo.
- And not much chance of Fishy learning enough of the local lingo to set up a sting like this.
- Consumers have no say in this arrangement; they are expected to simply buy the new devices and learn the lingo.
- He picked up the lingo right away, but I can't get any kind of fix on it.
- In computer lingo, a million bytes is commonly referred to as one megabyte.
- In the lingo of modern thinking, the human is part of the loop.
- In the lingo of the Cold War, who had turned whom?
- Tourists navigated with resigned expressions: this was Holiday and at least you could understand the lingo.
the words used by the people in a particular country or area► language a system of words, phrases, and grammar that is used by the people who live in a particular country: speak a language: · "What language do they speak in Brazil?" "Portuguese."· She can speak four different languages - French, German, English, and Dutch.foreign language: · Every pupil has to learn at least one foreign language.official language (=the language used by the government): · English is the island's official language, but people also speak French and Creole.speak the language (=be able to speak the language of the country you are in): · It's difficult living in a country where you don't speak the language. ► lingo informal a foreign language: speak/know the lingo: · Travelling in Spain is much easier if you can speak the lingo.learn/pick up the lingo: · He picked up the local lingo straight away. ► dialect a form of a language which is spoken by the people who live in one area of a country, and which has different words, grammar, or pronunciation from other forms of that language: · In this region, the dialect sounds a lot like German.· At home, they speak in dialect.Yorkshire/German/Cantonese etc dialect: · In some Yorkshire dialects, people say "spice" instead of "sweets" or "candy".dialect word: · "Nowt" is a northern dialect word meaning "nothing".dialect of: · He spoke a dialect of French that I found hard to understand. ► slang very informal words used in a particular country or place: · I was totally confused by the slang that the other kids were using.slang for: · "Bladdered" is slang for "drunk".slang word/term/expression: · "Shepherd" was a slang term for a spy.US/British/Southern etc slang: · "Baloney" is US slang for nonsense. ► colloquial language that is colloquial is only used in conversation, not in formal situations: · It's a useful little phrase book, full of colloquial expressions.· The best way of improving your colloquial English is by listening to native speakers.· You shouldn't use phrases like "sort of" in essays -- they're too colloquial. ► speak the lingo I’d like to go to Greece, but I don’t speak the lingo. VERB► speak· His son is probably the guy in the Guinness Draught ad, who is no tourist because he speaks the lingo. 1a language, especially a foreign one: I’d like to go to Greece, but I don’t speak the lingo.2words or expressions used only by a particular group of people, or at a particular period of time: academic lingo |