See tin-pot dictatorship on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tin-pot dictator",
"3": "-ship"
},
"expansion": "tin-pot dictator + -ship",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From tin-pot dictator + -ship.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tin-pot dictatorships",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "tin-pot dictatorship (plural tin-pot dictatorships)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ship",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1979, John Wainwright, Death of a Big Man, Berkley, →ISBN, page 37:",
"text": "And, if so, why not the arms-dealer who sells his products to some tin-pot dictatorship, knowing that they will be used to slaughter innocent women and kids?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, John Hossein Ghazvinian, Untapped, Harcourt, →ISBN:",
"text": "Though venality rather than thuggery is the dominant characteristic of the Gabonese political system, to an outsider the distinction is not always clear and the country can look like a classic tin-pot dictatorship—a sort of banana republic (with the part of the bananas played by Cameroonian understudies)",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:",
"text": "Speaking of the suspension of habeas corpus, and the curbs on the press, he warned that Mrs Gandhi was turning her country into a 'tin-pot dictatorship'.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A country ruled by a tin-pot dictator; an autocracy, especially one ruled by someone with delusions of grandeur."
],
"id": "en-tin-pot_dictatorship-en-noun-6QHefX9R",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"country",
"country"
],
[
"tin-pot dictator",
"tin-pot dictator"
],
[
"autocracy",
"autocracy"
],
[
"delusion",
"delusion"
],
[
"grandeur",
"grandeur"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, derogatory) A country ruled by a tin-pot dictator; an autocracy, especially one ruled by someone with delusions of grandeur."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "tin-pot dictatorship"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "tin-pot dictator",
"3": "-ship"
},
"expansion": "tin-pot dictator + -ship",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From tin-pot dictator + -ship.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "tin-pot dictatorships",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "tin-pot dictatorship (plural tin-pot dictatorships)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English derogatory terms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ship",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1979, John Wainwright, Death of a Big Man, Berkley, →ISBN, page 37:",
"text": "And, if so, why not the arms-dealer who sells his products to some tin-pot dictatorship, knowing that they will be used to slaughter innocent women and kids?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, John Hossein Ghazvinian, Untapped, Harcourt, →ISBN:",
"text": "Though venality rather than thuggery is the dominant characteristic of the Gabonese political system, to an outsider the distinction is not always clear and the country can look like a classic tin-pot dictatorship—a sort of banana republic (with the part of the bananas played by Cameroonian understudies)",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:",
"text": "Speaking of the suspension of habeas corpus, and the curbs on the press, he warned that Mrs Gandhi was turning her country into a 'tin-pot dictatorship'.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A country ruled by a tin-pot dictator; an autocracy, especially one ruled by someone with delusions of grandeur."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"country",
"country"
],
[
"tin-pot dictator",
"tin-pot dictator"
],
[
"autocracy",
"autocracy"
],
[
"delusion",
"delusion"
],
[
"grandeur",
"grandeur"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, derogatory) A country ruled by a tin-pot dictator; an autocracy, especially one ruled by someone with delusions of grandeur."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "tin-pot dictatorship"
}
Download raw JSONL data for tin-pot dictatorship meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.