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What is an argot?

What is an argot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
  2. The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers; a jargon.
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Its roughly 7 million people call themselves cariocas and have an argot all their own.
Happily, Rowan's efforts are as edgy and buzzing with street life as the argot he describes.
Now, brilliantly, or duplicitously, or frighteningly, Fox has given its critique of boringness and complacency and sameness a right-wing argot.
They are, in the argot of right-wing theology, paleocon rather than neocon.
They developed their own argot and rebellious fashion codes.
The special argot bespoke a fraternity with shared affinities extending beyond child larcenists.

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