"Cosmospeak" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Cosmo + -speak Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Cosmo|speak}} Cosmo + -speak Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Cosmospeak (uncountable)
  1. The characteristic jargon and copy style of Cosmopolitan magazine. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Jargon, Periodicals

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          "ref": "1974 August 11, Stephanie Harrington, “Ms. versus Cosmo”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Cosmopolitan, the magazine that goes on and on asking women in italicized Cosmospeak: “Don't you just love loving men, and don't you feel just miserable when you don't have a man to love, and wouldn't you love to learn how to love them better, and without fear or guilt and—best of all—to get the right one to love you?”",
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          "ref": "1989 March 14, Moira Bailey, “Bachelor No. 1 Faces Dating Game's Toughest Questions”, in The Orlando Sentinel",
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          "ref": "1995 September 19, “Power-dressing of party apparat-chick”, in The Herald, Scotland",
          "text": "She is also one of the stars of a politics spread in Cosmopolitan. In Cosmospeak, Clare, left, is an apparat-chick, a party girl, one of a new generation of young people who have embraced politics because they are tired of the way the aforementioned suits are ruining the country.",
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