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The term was used in gambling argot to refer to a gambler.
Matthews (1887, 94f) writes that, once this trade had been outlawed, traffic was conducted in an argot in which gems were referred to as 'calves'.
Lodge records "an enduring literary convention which made argot an indispensable component in any portrayal not only of the criminal fraternity, but of workingclass males in general" (247).
I will make sure that the services avoid the use of argot.
We are talking about a term which is common argot within the legal trade.
However, it seems to me that that is different from what might be called, in the argot, a "sting" operation because they vary infinitely.
But that argument is the argot of the thieves' kitchen.
Hecht, in particular, was wonderful with slang, and he peppered his films with the argot of the streets.
But the film's ham-handed reliance on period argot not only wears thin; it keeps the characters, such as they are, at a chilly distance.
Some speak a dialect or argot of their own, while others speak the prevailing dialect or language.
For instance the "archissupots" were meant to be former students in charge of teaching the local slang ("argot") to the new recruits.
The novel is written with literary language with elements of argot and slang of drug addicts.
But such complete secret languages are rare, because the speakers usually have some public language in common, on which the argot is largely based.
In this way, jargon can be argot and can provide an ingroup with shibboleths.
Images must be cut, dialogue overdubbed or deleted, and explicit messages and subtle implications excised from what the argot of film criticism calls the diegesis.
