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  • noun Plural form of lingo.

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Examples

  • May 27th, 2008 7: 56 am ET si si puede, OMG now she's down to stealing campaign lingos from Obama.

    Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico 2008

  • The woman might only have mastered two or three lingos, one of them merely shopping-list Greek, but she was bound to have wheedled out of her lover a little apartment “to keep mother in”, and Calliopus would probably have his foolish name on the transfer deed.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • The family used some one of the little lingos - Icelandic, it might have been.

    The Rolling Stones Heinlein, Robert A. 1952

  • I hope you will be good honourable young gentlemen, and obey that good lady, your Mama; and also I hope you will learn your lessons, as a sight of learning is a good thing, tho 'I don't rightly know who speaks them lingos as Madame talks.

    Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton

  • I don't hold with these foreign lingos, sir; there allers seems something sly and deceivin 'about em.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • Hi 'eard as' ow them Noo Zealanders wus comin ', an' I says ter meself as 'ow it' ud be another o 'these' ere lingos we'd 'av ter try an' parley.

    The Tale of a Trooper 1930

  • In ten languages if you'll find men talkin 'that many lingos.

    Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912

  • Specially when it's full of low-brow mechanics who speak in seven different lingos and subsist mainly on cut plug and garlic.

    The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

  • And now, Professor, here is an opportunity for you to come out strong; you are acquainted with no end of these African lingos, are you not?

    With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886

  • We dodged under the narrow awnings of the shops, and bargained blindly in the most unmusical lingos.

    Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

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