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grim-gram en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹɪmˌɡɹæm/

Etymology

From grim + -gram.

Meanings

1. (US, colloquial, historical) The "Violence Week in Review" cable sent from the US embassy in El Salvador, listing the names of killed and missing persons.
   • By mid-1983 domestic political reaction to the "grim-gram" totals forced the administration to begin pressuring the Salvadoreans. 2018, Tommie Sue Montgomery, Revolution In El Salvador:
   • She peeks into the tallies of the weekly "grim-grams" that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador sends to Washington. 1983, Time, volume 121, page 40:
   • Embassy "Grim-Grams," the weekly reports on human rights abuses, documented the systematic repression of unions […] 1991, Clifford Krauss, Inside Central America: its people, politics, and history, page 83:

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