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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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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.
Lacking devoted patronage, there Telugu evolved into a spectacularly hideous argot.
Every illicit drug now has its own subculture, with its own esoteric knowledge, its own rituals and its own argot.
The special argot bespoke a fraternity with shared affinities extending beyond child larcenists.
Many words in English have obscure origins, particularly those which may be said to have risen in the world from lowly origins in argot, cant or slang.

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