field show-up
n.— «With closing arguments set to begin today, the case against 10 Long Beach youths accused of beating three white women Halloween night hinges almost entirely on identifications made in a Ralphs parking lot the night of the attack. In a procedure known as a field show-up, police told the victims and a reputed witness that the youths—nine girls and a boy, ages 12 to 17—were suspects and asked if they recognized them from the melee.» —“Key tactic in hate-crime case assailed” by Joe Mozingo Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
If you speak a second or third language, you may remember the first time you dreamed in that new tongue. But does this milestone mean you’re actually fluent? And a couple’s dispute over the word regret: Say you wish you’d been able...
A Los Angeles, California, listener shares the following pangram, a succinct but understandable statement that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: A quick fox jumps high / Vexing birds, zigzag winds fly / Haikus trap words, why? This is part of...