1
: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
sports jargon
2
: obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words
an academic essay filled with jargon
3
a
: confused unintelligible language
b
: a strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect
c
: a hybrid language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and grammar and used for communication between peoples of different speech
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Noun
medical jargon that the layman cannot understand
an academic essay filled with jargon
Verb
the birds who began jargoning to greet the dawn
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Its talky theatricality and soapy melodrama is bolstered by more political jargon than a CNN Election Night roundtable (and with smarter dialogue).
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Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
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Noun
For the lyrics, Camille integrated the legal jargon that would typically go into a closing argument.
—Paula Aceves, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Its talky theatricality and soapy melodrama is bolstered by more political jargon than a CNN Election Night roundtable (and with smarter dialogue).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
That’s like the same thing that happened in 2008 when everybody was bedazzled by all these Wall Street jargon terms like collateralized debt obligations.
—Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
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“Jargon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jargon. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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jargon
noun
jar·gon
ˈjär-gən, -ˌgän 
1
: the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity, group, profession, or field of study
medical jargon
2
: unintelligible, meaningless, or incoherent speech (as that associated with Wernicke's aphasia or some forms of schizophrenia)
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