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autospeak en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From auto- + speak.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) Thoughtless, automatic speech.
    • If management is not quite as routinised as teaching, it still involves quite a lot of autospeak when what people say follows familiar pathways. 1998, Michael Strain, Policy, leadership and professional knowledge in education:

autospeak en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From auto + -speak.

Meanings

  1. (US, informal, uncountable) The jargon associated with motor vehicles.
    • WHAT you call the Kia Rondo depends on how far you bend to the fickle winds of autospeak. 2007 June 24, Nick Kurczewski, “A Minivan That Is Actually Mini”, in New York Times:
    • Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'. 2007, Nury Vittachi, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, page 199: