Identi-Kit

American

[ahy-den-ti-kit, ih-den-] / aɪˈdɛn tɪˌkɪt, ɪˈdɛn- /

Trademark.

a brand name for a kit containing drawings of hairlines, eyes, noses, chins, etc., in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, used by law-enforcement agencies to construct a composite picture of a suspect from descriptions provided by witnesses.

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Identi-Kit

"He looked like one of those Identi-Kit police drawings," he says, a rough sketch waiting to be rounded out and colored in by his next role.

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