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Compound of crime + think, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: The crime of having unorthodox or unofficial thoughts (thoughtcrimes). Full definition →
Compound of crime + think, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.