jargons

Noun

jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)

1. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
   • He used technical jargon but I managed to catch the drift of his argument.
2. (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
   • They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they...1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 11

   Synonyms:

   argot, cant, intalk, lingo

3. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
   • Cut the jargon and get to your point.

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