Argot



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.隐语, 黑话
• ［英］ n.隐语, 黑话 ( slang; speech spoken by only a small group of people)
• ［类］ 反义词: standard language ( 标准语言) ; common verbalism ( 一般用语)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: French
• Date: 1842
• an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group shoved into a taxi by a porter whose argot I couldn't understand — Allen Tate

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