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Is there a name/term for this abomination? I've only ever heard one person speak in that form (omitting "to be"), and it has haunted me ever since.
I think you’d call this elision. Assume that the phrase is originally “the car needs to be washed” but you cut out “to be”, making it into a shorter form.
Worse, to me, is that there is a perfectly grammatically correct way to be just as brief.
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And for a linguist the question is really whether there are native speakers who consider it correct. Here there are millions who say yes.