Lingo

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lingo \Lin"go\ (l[i^][ng]"g[-o]), n. [L. lingua tongue,
     language. See {Lingual}.]
     Language; speech; dialect. [Slang]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  lingo
       n : a characteristic language of a particular group (as among
           thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: {cant}, {jargon},
            {slang}, {argot}, {patois}, {vernacular}]
       [also: {lingoes} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "lingo":
     argot, cant, dialect, gibberish, gobbledygook, idiom, jargon,
     language, langue, lingua, locution, mumbo jumbo, mumbo-jumbo,
     parlance, parole, patois, patter, personal usage, phraseology,
     pidgin, scatology, slang, speech, taboo language, talk, tongue,
     usage, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Lingo
       
          An animation scripting language.
       
          [MacroMind Director V3.0 Interactivity Manual, MacroMind
          1991].
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Lingo, NM
    Zip code(s): 88123