Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of argot or slang: as, argotic locutions.

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Examples

  • He was familiar with every turn of expression in Descartes and Condillac, but would have been sorely puzzled to translate the argotic locutions of Monsieur de Kock, père.

    Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

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