crimespeak
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
crimespeak (uncountable)
- (informal) The jargon associated with crime and criminals.
- 2020, Ewan Scott, Seven Shorts:
- “They say Mr Luckhart was the shooter,” the girl tells her, confident in the lingua franca of modern crimespeak, “so the cops had to take him out.”
- Synonym of wrongspeak
- Coordinate term: crimethink