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Argot (French, Spanish, Catalan for "slang is a language used by various groups, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary of study, hobby, job, sport, etc. Victor Hugo was one of the first to research argot extensively. He describes it in his novel, Les Miserables.

Sterling defines argot as "the deliberately hermetic language of a small knowledge clique... a super-specialized geek cult language that has no traction in the real world."

The earliest known recording of the term "argot" was in 1628, and the word probably derives from the name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

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MALE PROSTITUTE

hustler noun, US, 1924
• All right, she was a hustler, but she wasn’t
hustling for me and I did her a favor.
—Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick 1950
joey noun, AUSTRALIA, 1979
a youthful, attractive homosexual male
prostitute
• — Maledicta 1979: ‘Kinks and queens:
linguistic and cultural aspects of the
terminology for gays’

joyboy noun, UK, 1961
a young male homosexual, especially a young
male homosexual prostitute
• There were many other ways; masturbation
was first but homosexuals or prisonmade
“joy-boys” came in second. —Piri Thomas,
Seven Long Times 1974

midnight cowboy noun, US, 1972
a homosexual prostitute, originally one who
wears cowboy clothes; hence a homosexual man
Brought from gay subculture into wider use by
the film Midnight Cowboy, 1969. The less subtle,
general sense resulted from the film’s success.
• The clothes chosen by the fetishists epito-
mize masculinity: cowboys, sailors, etc. The
model acting out the cowboy then is a
midnight cowboy[.] —Bruce Rodgers, The
Queens’ Vernacular 1972

tea-room cruiser noun, US, 1982
a male homosexual prostitute who frequents
public toilets
• — Maledicta Summer/Winter, 1982: ‘Dyke
diction: the language of lesbians’

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