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• n  language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams

• Entitled Autobiography, the gaudy billboard includes a life history in telegraphese, his horoscope, and a skeletal portrait of himself composed from 13 X rays.
• Like the other Kiplinger letters, the first issue of Overseas Postscript was composed in punchy, prophetic telegraphese.
• Another colleague rewrote the paper in telegraphese, leaving out most adjectives, inserting the word 'stop' for periods.