» jargon
Noun (3 meanings)
Example:
- “they don't speak our lingo”
jargon is a type of:
- non-standard speech (noun) - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
types of jargon:
- rhyming slang (noun) - slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component
- street name (noun) - slang for something (especially for an illegal drug)
jargon is derivationally related to:
- to slang (verb) - use slang or vulgar language
- slangy (adjective) - constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang
Member of this domain - USAGE:
- 'hood (noun) - (slang) a neighborhood
- Benzedrine, bennie (noun) - a form of amphetamine
- Caterpillar, cat (noun) - a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts
- Jap, Nip (noun) - (offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
- Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun (noun) - offensive term for a person of German descent
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- Mickey Finn (noun) - slang term for knockout drops
- Redskin, Injun, red man (noun) - (slang) offensive term for Native Americans
- airhead (noun) - a flighty scatterbrained simpleton
- arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole (noun) - vulgar slang for anus
- baby, babe, sister (noun) - (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women
- bad egg (noun) - (old-fashioned slang) a bad person
- baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle (noun) - pretentious or silly talk or writing
- besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet (adjective) - very drunk
- bitch (noun) - an unpleasant difficulty
- bite (noun) - a portion removed from the whole
- boffin (noun) - (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research
- bolshy, stroppy (adjective) - obstreperous
- bunfight, bun-fight (noun) - (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion
- to bunk off, play hooky (verb) - play truant from work or school
- burnup (noun) - a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road
- butch, dike, dyke (noun) - (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- butch (adjective) - (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance
- to buy it, pip out (verb) - be killed or die
- cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains (noun) - the dead body of a human being
- caff (noun) - informal British term for a cafe
- can-do (adjective) - marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done
- cert (noun) - an absolute certainty
- chink, Chinaman (noun) - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
- to chuck, ditch (verb) - throw away
- clean, plumb, plum (adverb) - completely
- cock sucking, blowjob (noun) - slang for fellatio
- corker (noun) - (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person
- deck (noun) - street name for a packet of illegal drugs
- dekko (noun) - British slang for a look
- dibs (noun) - a claim of rights
- drop-dead (adverb) - extremely
- to feel (verb) - pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
- folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop (noun) - nonsensical talk or writing
- freaky (adjective) - strange and somewhat frightening
- fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup (noun) - slang for sexual intercourse
- gat, rod (noun) - a gangster's pistol
- to give (verb) - occur
- good egg (noun) - (old-fashioned slang) a good person
- gook, slant-eye (noun) - (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)
- grotty (adjective) -
- guvnor (noun) - (British slang) boss
- heist, rip-off (noun) - the act of stealing
- hood (noun) - (slang) a neighborhood
- to hoof (verb) - dance in a professional capacity
- jacking off, jerking off, hand job, wank (noun) - slang for masturbation
- jitters, heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies (noun) - extreme nervousness
- juice (noun) - electric current
- juice (noun) - energetic vitality
- key (noun) - a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- kike, hymie, sheeny, yid (noun) - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew
- legs (noun) - staying power
- mean (adjective) - excellent
- nick (noun) - (British slang) a prison
- niff, pong (noun) - an unpleasant smell
- nosh-up (noun) - a large satisfying meal
- old man (noun) - (slang) boss
- out-and-outer (noun) - someone who is excellent at something
- paleface (noun) - (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians)
- pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money (noun) - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off (adjective) - well below average height
- pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy (noun) - slang for a paunch
- power trip (noun) - (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people
- schlock, shlock, dreck (noun) - merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
- schlockmeister, shlockmeister (noun) - (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
- shakedown (noun) - extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- shakedown (noun) - a very thorough search of a person or a place
- skin flick (noun) - a pornographic movie
- skinful (noun) - a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk
- slam-bang (adjective) - violent and sudden and noisy
- some (adjective) - remarkable
- soup-strainer, toothbrush (noun) - slang for a mustache
- spic, spik, spick (noun) - (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent
- square, straight (adjective) - rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- square-bashing (noun) - drill on a barracks square
- squeeze (noun) - (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend
- stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock (noun) - senseless talk
- suit (noun) - (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
- swiz (noun) - British slang for a swindle
- the shits, the trots (noun) - obscene terms for diarrhea
- tripper (noun) - (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations
- uncool (adjective) - (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring
- villain, baddie (noun) - the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction
- white trash, poor white trash (noun) - (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
- whitey, honky, honkey, honkie (noun) - (slang) offensive names for a White man
- wog (noun) - (offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
- wop, dago, ginzo, Guinea, greaseball (noun) - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent
jargon is a type of:
- expressive style, style (noun) - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
types of jargon:
- Eurobabble (noun) - the jargon of European community documents and regulations
- doctorspeak (noun) - medical jargon
- ecobabble (noun) - using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware
- gobbledygook (noun) - incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
- psychobabble (noun) - using language loaded with psychological terminology
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- technobabble (noun) - technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects