familylect
n.— «Not those complex computer codes or ubiquitous bar codes or the lol codes used in so many IMs. Rather, the secret acronyms, subtextual phrases and redefined nouns that people invent at home.…Academics have developed a term for these kinds of codes. It’s called “familylect.”» —“Speaking in COD…“ by Melissa Dribben Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania) May 21, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Unparalleled misalignments are pairs of phrases in which the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other, but the phrases themselves mean different things. For example, the phrase blanket statement can be paired with cover story...
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