1. (

• slang ,
• cant ,
• jargon ,
• lingo ,
• argot ,
• patois ,
• vernacular ,

) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" ;

2. (

• vernacular

) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) ;

1. (

• common ,
• vernacular ,
• vulgar ,

) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" ;