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Word: copspeak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...recently turned into a real-life Hollywood chase scene. Instead of just glancing at the familiar chopper footage on the tube, many crime seekers surfed over to PoliceScanner.com a Website with real-time audio from police radio, including the Dallas and L.A. cops. The result: a sort of gruesome copspeak play-by-play to accompany the TV spectacle. Even the site's more mundane offerings--including lost kittens and traffic stops--attract some 10,000 daily visitors, each eager to take a byte out of crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECH WATCH: Mar. 24, 1997 | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

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