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Telegraphese

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this. uncountable

    "Vythilingam said: "Injection every day. Perhaps all right then." Anstruther had not been long in Malaya. He attributed this wog's clipped telegraphese to the shyness of one who meets socially a racial superior."

  2. 2
    language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams wordnet

Etymology

From telegraph + -ese.

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