Word: argot
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...summer-stock Silk Stockings at San Diego, leggy (39 in. from hipbone to toe) Juliet Prowse, 24, obliquely discussed her durable relationship with Frank Sinatra. Although allowing that he might consider her "dingaling" and perhaps had "flipped," the sinuous dancer was hardly ready to spill the banns. In the argot of the Rat Pack, explained she, "flip" means "to like someone an awful lot but not necessarily to fall in love. It's more like an urge...
...seducing the customer out of his change-it ranges from a hatchick's friendly pat on the shoulder to the Greenwich Village waiter who pursued a nontipper out into the street crying: "No tip! No tip!"-employees around the country have by now established their own argot. A nontipper is universally called a "stiff," while in Boston he is also a "fishball." in New Orleans a "frog," in Seattle a "mossback," in Kansas City a "clutch," in Chicago a "snake" or a "lemon." Someone free with money is a "live one" ,or a "mark...
...Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus...
...Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus...
...Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today, the tale of wily Odysseus...