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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.

promiscuous person

PROMISCUOUS PERSON

bike noun, AUSTRALIA, 1945
Suggests ‘easy availability for a ride’. Often in
compound as ‘office bike’, ‘school bike’, ‘town
bike’, ‘village bike’, etc; occasionally, if reputation
demands, ‘the bike’.
• What an ugly old bike. I wouldn’t ride her
for practice!!! —Barry Humphries, Bazza
Pulls It Off! 1971

dartboard adjective, UK, 1982
< had more pricks than a second-hand
dartboard
used of a sexually promiscuous woman
As the punch line of a joke from the early 1980s
‘second-hand’ is dispensible.
• —Ted Walker, High Path 1982

punchboard noun, US, 1977
A ‘punchboard’ is a game which used to be
found in shops, where for a price the customer
punched one of many holes on the board in the
hope of winning a prize.
• Claymore Face, the platoon punchboard, was
there too. — Larry Heinemann, Close
Quarters 1977

slut noun, UK, 1450
• Well, a slut is one who will go to a bar
that’s known to be a place for mostly guys
– and walk in alone and sit at the bar.
—Murray Kaufman, Murray the K Tells It
Like It Is, Baby, 1966

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