Meanings
autospeak1
nounautospeak (uncountable)
- informaluncountableThoughtless, automatic speech.
If management is not quite as routinised as teaching, it still involves quite a lot of autospeak when what people say follows familiar pathways.
1998, Michael Strain, Policy, leadership and professional knowledge in education
autospeak2
nounautospeak (uncountable)
- USinformaluncountableThe jargon associated with motor vehicles.
Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'.
2007, Nury Vittachi, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, page 1991 more example
WHAT you call the Kia Rondo depends on how far you bend to the fickle winds of autospeak.
2007 June 24, Nick Kurczewski, “A Minivan That Is Actually Mini”, in New York Times
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APA
autospeak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autospeak
MLA
“autospeak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autospeak. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autospeak,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autospeak.
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