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a combining form extracted from newspeak, used in the formation of compound words, usually derogatory, that denote the style or vocabulary of a discipline, person, era, etc., as specified by the initial element: adspeak; artspeak; futurespeak.
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suff.  Language characteristic of: doctorspeak; cop-speak.

[From (new)speak.]
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