Cosmospeak

Cosmo +‎ -speak

Cosmospeak (uncountable)

1. The characteristic jargon and copy style of Cosmopolitan magazine.
   • 1974, Stephanie Harrington, "Ms. versus Cosmo", The New York Times, 11 August 1974:

     Cosmopolitan, the magazine that goes on and on asking women in italicized Cosmospeak: “Don't you just love loving men, and don't you feel just miserable when you don't have a man to love, and wouldn't you love to learn how to love them better, and without fear or guilt and—best of all—to get the right one to love you?”

   • 1989, Moira Bailey, "Bachelor No. 1 Faces Dating Game's Toughest Questions", The Orlando Sentinel, 14 March 1989:

     Granted, these living Love Magnets must meet tough criteria. They must be good-looking, "self-made men" (that's Cosmospeak for "a nice bank account").

   • 1995, "Power-dressing of party apparat-chick", The Herald (Scotland), 19 September 1995:

     She is also one of the stars of a politics spread in Cosmopolitan. In Cosmospeak, Clare, left, is an apparat-chick, a party girl, one of a new generation of young people who have embraced politics because they are tired of the way the aforementioned suits are ruining the country.