cryptolanguage

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

crypto- +‎ language

Noun[edit]

cryptolanguage (plural cryptolanguages)

  1. (linguistics) A secret language.
    • 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page vii:
      The history of cant lexicography has contributed in part to a widely held misconception about slang, namely, that slang is used as a secret language known only to the members of a select group: that slang is a crypto-language.
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