misper

English

Etymology

Portmanteau of missing + person

Shortening of missing person as in “missing persons report”.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

misper (plural mispers)

1. (law enforcement, slang) A missing person.
   • 2015, Peter James, You Are Dead, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN:

     ‘I had my researchers check the files on all the mispers and cold cases five years either side of that date estimate, on females of that approximate age. This is what they found. Fill your boots.’ He took a large gulp of his drink. / ‘I’m impressed, you've been moving fast.’ / ‘On it like a car bonnet, mate.’

Anagrams

• Priems, Primes, Simper, emirps, primes, simper