Sentences with phrase «argot as»

Sporting goods stores routinely carry a variety of such lethal models (known in the popular argot as «intimidators» — an understatement if there ever was one).

Not exact matches

In Halasian argot, people of all ages really do hail from all walks of life; America, a football hotbed, is that part of God's green earth which stretches from coast to coast; one's heart goes out to the less fortunate; athletics formulate character, as they have produced the stars of yesteryear, and have also given us the stars of today (the Bears themselves are coming of age under Finks, who is as sharp as a tack).

But the Mills and Boon argot took on a decidedly less courtly colour overnight, as speculation mounted about the possibility that Clegg might spurn the Tories after all (see — it's hard not to) and return to Labour's close embrace (sorry).

Rather, they would consist of discrete fragments — quanta, in the argot of physics — just as light is composed of individual bundles of energy called photons.

Knowing which professors to approach in a department, and how often to drop into their offices; understanding which publications to bring up in a conversation, or which professional associations to join; assimilating the argot of the industry and separating slang from necessary jargon: all these skills are as important to success as grades and lab technique.

You join yet another IRC channel: a screen of names, or «nicks,» working out deals in the typo - ridden low - ercase that acts as the argot of the marketplace.

Key to these functions is its role as a sort of chromatin control panel — a chromatin «factor,» in research argot — regulating those openings, closings and shape - changings.

Define slang: language peculiar to a particular group: such as; argot; jargon — slang in a sentence We've been just a little bit obsessed with old timey and subcultural slang here at the Floss as of late, and today we're going to mine one of the

The film was shot on location, at the prison of the same name, using the prisoners as extras, and they speak their own argot, probably making subtitles necessary even for Spanish speakers.

The characters speak a corn - pone argot that's too self - consciously literary, and many of the scenes, such as the ones between Tyrone and the white, racist sheriff (Stacy Keach), are familiar.

But, ludicrous as Pryor's argot is (and Colin McEnroe skewered him a few weeks ago), we are fools if we keep listening to him — right, legislators?

Drawing from David W. Maurer's Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern (1955), Meloy equips the whiz mob with authentic pickpocket slang that effectually functions as coded speech — a detail sure to delight kids enamored by the clandestine.

As the boomers get older, many will move out of the houses where they raised families and move into cozier apartments, condominiums and townhouses (known as multifamily units in industry argotAs the boomers get older, many will move out of the houses where they raised families and move into cozier apartments, condominiums and townhouses (known as multifamily units in industry argotas multifamily units in industry argot).