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intel

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈɪnt.ɛl//
  • //ˈɪn.tɛl//

Intelligence (secret information).

noun

  1. 1

    Intelligence (secret information).

    Intel is important in espionage.

    We have reason to believe one of our people is giving intel to the enemy. Hit an enemy communication center and get us a name.

    “The Bynar ship went missing on stardate 58934.9.” “Okay, so your intel is legit, but this still feels like a trick.” “No. I'm a changed computer. Just look at me. Do you see the blue light?” “The light is reassuring.”

    Aaaaaand that’s pretty much everything we know about Zazie and David’s ‘ship, but definitely check back here for any and all intel on the couple. ❤️

Etymology

Clipping of intelligence.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).