What is "apocopes"

Usage examples of "apocopes".

Gately disastrously decides to go ahead and allow a nonviolent burglary to become in effect a robbery which the operative legal difference involves either violence or the coercive threat of same and Gately draws himself up to his full menacing height and shines his flashlight in the little homeowner's rheumy eyes and addresses him the way menacing criminals speak in popular entertainment d's for th's, various apocopes, and so on and takes hold of the guy's ear and conducts him down to a kitchen chair and binds his arms and legs to the chair with electrical cords neatly clipped from refrigerator and can-opener and M.