noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
speak
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His son is probably the guy in the Guinness Draught ad, who is no tourist because he speaks the lingo .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Deliver the package" is pilot lingo for dropping a bomb on a target.
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He picked up the local lingo straight away.
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I'd like to go to Greece, but I don't speak the lingo .
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Travelling in Spain is much easier if you can speak the lingo .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And not much chance of Fishy learning enough of the local lingo to set up a sting like this.
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Consumers have no say in this arrangement; they are expected to simply buy the new devices and learn the lingo .
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He picked up the lingo right away, but I can't get any kind of fix on it.
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In computer lingo , a million bytes is commonly referred to as one megabyte.
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In the lingo of modern thinking, the human is part of the loop.
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In the lingo of the Cold War, who had turned whom?
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Tourists navigated with resigned expressions: this was Holiday and at least you could understand the lingo .