"Fingergate" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Etymology: From finger + -gate. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|finger|gate}} finger + -gate Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Fingergate
  1. (informal) A 2015 controversy around a video, later found to be doctored, allegedly showing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis making an obscene hand gesture to punctuate his comments about the financial relationship of Greece and Germany during a lecture in Croatia in 2013. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-Fingergate-en-name-WsQA~rTI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -gate, Pages with 1 entry
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