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