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shoptalk
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of SHOPTALK
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field <eventually, he got bored with the shoptalk of the nuclear engineers, which he barely understood>
Synonyms argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patois, patter, shop, shoptalk, slang, vocabulary
Related Words colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism; slanguage; bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble
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