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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.

PIMP

cigarette pimp noun, US, 1972
a pimp whose lack of professional pride leads
him to solicit customers for his prostitutes
• Black pimps never solicit for their women if
they are “true pimps,” and call a man who
does a cigarette pimp, popcorn pimp, or
chile pimp. —Christina and Richard Milner,
Black Players 1972

easy rider noun, US, 1914
• —Robert A. Wilson, Playboy’s Book of
Forbidden Words 1972

mack noun, US, 1903
• In being a mack, you’re supposedly the
supreme being of a man. Man rules woman.
In being a mack, you acknowledge this fact.
—Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure 1972

man noun, US, 1973
• Sometimes me and my man Daddy drive up
Park Avenue in his car. —Susan Hall,
Ladies of the Night 1973

pee-eye noun, US, 1960
• He nursed a new rhythm from Kid’s drums
until the prostitutes were doing the
funkybutt so sexy that even the pee-eyes
were flashing their money. —Patrick Neate,
Twelve Bar Blues 2001

popcorn pimp noun, US, 1972
a small-time pimp; a pimp who fails to live up to
pimp standards
• One of the bouncers pulled his wallet out.
Popcorn pimp, he didn’t have fifty dollars.
—Edwin Torres, After Hours 1979

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