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How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: vulgar, common
How to sign: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo";
Similiar / Same: jargon, lingo, argot, patois, slang, cant
Categories: non-standard speech
Within this category: rhyming slang, street name
