shorthand

“Closing the border” has been Trump’s shorthand for a draconian crackdown on illegal immigration.

A not-insignificant amount of Trump’s support is predicated on that notion that his outrageous rhetoric and belligerent policy proposals are merely performative — Trump being Trump, to use the shorthand.

“No Obamacare?” an attendee asked Johnson, using the shorthand name for the ACA.

At times it was bizarre - he admired my shorthand, commented on my British accent and seemed to patronise me - calling me “sweetheart”.

Hitler had a shorthand term for such vile rhetoric: Rassenschande, or “bastardization” of the German race.