nosecount

[ nohz-kount ]

noun

, Informal.

1. the counting count of individual persons, as for a census.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nosecount¹

First recorded in 1935–40; nose + count ¹

Example Sentences

In an advance nosecount, the coalition could only muster 209 votes for Landrum-Griffin�ten short of the 219 needed to win.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neither wind nor rain nor flagpole-sitters stopped most of the nation's 140,000 census enumerators last week, but the biggest nosecount in U.S. history was not without its moments of travail.

From Time Magazine Archive