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LOVEINT

LOVEINT noun: the use of government espionage tools or techniques to investigate one's love interests.

Noun

LOVEINT (uncountable)

  1. (US, humorous) The use of government espionage tools or techniques to investigate one's love interests.
    • Anyway, when analysts thought about abusing the system, they were far less interested in what it could do for them professionally than in what it could do for them personally. This led to the practice known as LOVEINT, a gross joke on HUMINT and SIGINT and a travesty of intelligence, in which...2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN

Origin of LOVEINT

Parody of SIGINT, HUMINT, etc., suggesting "love intelligence".

Questions about LOVEINT

What does LOVEINT mean?
LOVEINT means the use of government espionage tools or techniques to investigate one's love interests.
What part of speech is LOVEINT?
LOVEINT is a noun.

Words near LOVEINT in the dictionary

  1. Lovegroves
  2. lovehandle
  3. lovehandles
  4. lovehole
  5. loveholes
  6. LOVEINT
  7. Lovejoy
  8. Lovejoys
  9. lovekin
  10. lovekins
  11. Lovel

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