ˈin-ˌreference
[cf. in a. 2.]
A reference understood by only a limited group of people. Cf. in-joke.
| 1967 Punch 15 Feb. 243/2 The pieces..have clearly journeyed from a lost civilisation, although..in-references to..period West End lions, have been omitted. 1968 Listener 26 Sept. 421/2 Peel's linking comments are liberally sprinkled with in-references to musicians and to long-playing records destined, one suspects, for infinitesimal sales. |