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policespeak en · NOUN

Etymology

From police + -speak.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The jargon or formal language used by the police.
    • In the passage above, two of the terms used by the interviewing officer are typical of legalistic/pseudo-legalistic policespeak. The officer uses the term "vehicle" even after the details of the vehicle type have been established, […] 2008, John Gibbons, M. Teresa Turell, Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, page 75: