identikit

The definition of identikit is various pictures or qualities put together with the help of an eye witness to a crime as a way to create a picture of a suspected criminal.

(adjective)

An example of identikit used as an adjective is an identikit drawing which is a combination of nose, cheeks, hair, lip and eye characteristics, combined to depict a suspected robber.

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See identikit in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

like or suggesting a composite picture, as of traits or qualities arbitrarily put together to form a type: an identikit lawyer

Origin: < Identi-Kit, trademark for a set of transparencies depicting types of noses, eyes, etc. that can be combined variously to form a composite face < identi(fication) + kit

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