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identikit|aɪˈdɛntɪkɪt|
Also identi-kit.
[Blend of identity + kit n.1]
A composite picture of a person whom the police wish to interview assembled from features described by witnesses. Also transf.
1961Observer 12 Mar. 5/7 About forty police forces in this country are now testing an American device called an ‘Identi-Kit’, which is used to translate witnesses' descriptions of a person into visual terms. 1961Spectator 1 Sept. 277 The identi-kit must depend..on the memory of the witness being questioned. 1962Times 19 Apr. 13/2 The identi-kit method of political detection is not really very plausible here. 1963Listener 19 Sept. 416/2 At their worst the genres of contemporary fiction provide no more than a kind of ‘identikit’ novel, prefabricated from ready-made elements. 1967Spectator 29 Sept. 359/1 One at least managed to build up an identikit description of the soul: ‘A most wonderful, delicate, small thing’. 1969G. Greene Trav. with my Aunt ii. iii. 245, I don't resemble whatever identikit portrait you have of me. 1969Times 13 Mar. 13/1 If one were looking at that time for an Identikit of an England side to defend the World Cup in Mexico in 1970 one would scarcely have recognized the person we were looking for. 1971‘J. Ashford’ Bent Copper vi. 43 He'd called in the D.C. from H.Q. who specialised in Identikit and..the D.C. had built up several faces. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Mar. 255/1 The identikit of this regime [in Greece] is predictably unpleasant. |