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testilie en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of testify + lie. Possibly a back-formation from the noun testilying, which appeared a few years earlier and is more common.

Meanings

1. (US, euphemistic, informal) To commit perjury (as a police officer).
   • Higher rank officers in New York advocated that those officers who testilied should not be prosecuted because testilying was a police tradition. 2007, Jack R. Greene, “Courtroom testimony and ‘testilying’”, in The Encyclopedia of Police Science, volume 1, page 274:
   • In Manhattan, grand jury prosecutors are urged to interview police officers separately if there is any possibility they may be fabricating evidence or about to testilie. 1999 January, Larry Cunningham, “Taking on Testilying”, in Criminal Justice Ethics, volume 18, →DOI, pages 26–40:

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