cablesen.
/keɪb(ə)lˈiːz/ The contracted or cryptic jargon used in cablegrams, esp. by journalists.
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1895 A. Roberts & R. Morton Adventures A. Roberts viii. 104 The cold language of cablegramese fails to do justice to my prowess.]
1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue xxv. 205 And, thus transformed into French cablese, paste them on to telegram forms.
1955 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy (1956) ii. 14 Messages were now framed in cablese..combining and contracting words until the output..bordered on gibberish.
1958 E. A. Robertson Justice of Heart iv. 45 One of his correspondents..was said to have wired back a long dispatch in plain English, and been told to use cable-ese, to save telegraph bills.
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