- cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
--1 is a kind of non-standard speech
--1 has particulars: street name; rhyming slang - jargoon, jargon - a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
--2 is a kind of zircon, zirconium silicate
- jargon - specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
--3 is a kind of expressive style, style
--3 has particulars:ecobabble; Eurobabble; gobbledygook; psychobabble; technobabble