Entry 82
semaphorism
a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on the subject but don’t go any further —an emphatic nod, a half-told anecdote, an enigmatic ‘I know the feeling'—which you place into conversations like those little flags that warn diggers of something buried underground: maybe a cable that secretly powers your house, maybe a fiberoptic link to some foreign country.
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