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  1. a combining form extracted from newspeak (coined by George Orwell in his novel, 1984), used in the formation of compound words, usually derogatory, derisive, or facetious, that denote the style or vocabulary of a discipline, person, era, etc., as specified by the initial element: techspeak; artspeak; nukespeak; leetspeak; geek-speak.
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-speak

suffix forming nouns
  1. informal the language or jargon of a specific group, organization, or fieldcomputerspeak
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Word Origin

C20: formed on the pattern of newspeak
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