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- noun linguistics A
secretive language form used by asubculture ; anarcane cant .
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Examples
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But don't go off giving your lil 'scholars detention slips or bad grades - indeed, congratulate them on practicing grammatical sleight of mouth, what linguists call a cryptolect, a secret language used by a subgroup to communicate with each other while keeping outsiders clueless.
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But don't go off giving your lil 'scholars detention slips or bad grades - indeed, congratulate them on practicing grammatical sleight of mouth, what linguists call a cryptolect, a secret language used by a subgroup to communicate with each other while keeping outsiders clueless.
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They practiced a form of what linguists call a cryptolect, a secret language used by a subgroup to communicate with each other while keeping outsiders clueless.
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And I gar-on-tee you, Lushootseed is as cryptic a cryptolect as anyone is likely to need.
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- Practicing a form of what linguists call a cryptolect.
Tucson Weekly 2009
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