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12:58 Dec 5, 2015 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Art/Literary - Military / Defense / NYC police speak | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 19:45 | ||||||
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4 +7 | location |
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location Explanation: Quoting reference below: what's your 20? The phrase essentially means, "What is your location?" or "Identify your position," but is a corrupted phrase from the original "10-20" used by United States law enforcement to verbally encode their radio transmissions to that non-police listeners would not easily discover police operations, as well as to communicate quicker and more efficiently by standardizing frequently used phrases. These verbally-coded messages were called "10 codes", of which "10-20" stood for "Identify your position," or "Where are you?" originally. Reference: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=what's+y... |
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