单词 | misper |
释义 | mispern. British (chiefly Police slang). = missing person n. at missing adj. and n.2 Special uses. ΚΠ 1994 Guardian 11 June (Weekend Suppl.) 38/4 The JPU [= Juvenile Protection Unit] recognise a girl being cornered by two young men outside Stringfellows near Leicester Square as a ‘Misper’. 1995 Guardian 29 Sept. ii. 7/3 He..leaves the sister of a ‘misper’ in peace rather than ask ‘And how did you feel?’ 1999 I. Rankin Dead Souls xi. 77 Last estimate I saw said there could be as many as a quarter of a million MisPers out there. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1994 |
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