shorthand

Timing and temperature got their own shorthand with “BTBRTS” — Bring to Boil, Reduce to Simmer.

The fabric has long been shorthand for rugged individualism and the everyday workwear mythos of the American frontier — in other words, a different, portable performance of Americana.

Since the start of the war it has become shorthand for a series of intractable and maximalist demands that Putin say stand in the way of a ceasefire.

"The Scots-Irish becomes a kind of shorthand for a lot of the things that we're seeing from the kind of cultural perspectives of the current administration."

Still, it was his passion for female protagonists who were “reliable in a world of lying men” that also fueled his output, if only partly dealt with in Stewart’s shorthand approach.