Russiagate

Her [Fiona Hill's] time as special assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian Affairs, a role that put her at the center of domestic and geopolitical intrigue, follows the arc of the Russiagate scandal that dogged Trump’s presidency almost from its inception.

2019 September 30, Natasha Bertrand, “The Russia Hawk in the White House”, in POLITICO Magazine:

(US politics, informal) The controversy and Russia investigation that ensued after the 2016 US presidential election regarding the discovery of myriad secretive links between Trump associates and Russian officials.


Cold Warrior

Like many other ‘Cold Warriors’ of the European political center, [Raymond] Aron had only limited sympathy for the United States—‘the U.S. economy seems to me’, he wrote, ‘a model neither for humanity nor the West’.

2005, Tony Judt, “Culture Wars”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

(history) A participant in the Cold War.


Memory Alpha

(rare) A collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek; Star Trek wiki.


slave state

(US, historical) Prior to the American Civil War, any of the states in which the owning of slaves was legal.


Foggy Bottom

Perhaps in reference to the smoke from industrial facilities.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked boldly about smart power projection, but by the time she left Foggy Bottom, she was still stuck deploying the same meager, smart power tools that she inherited.

2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic:

(US politics, metonymically) The United States Department of State, whose headquarters are nearby.


Wizard of Oz experiment

en-noun

Wizard of Oz experiment (plural Wizard of Oz experiments)

Referring to a scene in which the Wizard of Oz hides behind a curtain to project an intimidating shadow image.

human-computer interaction
human-computer interaction

In the field of human-computer interaction, a research experiment in which subjects interact with a computer system that they believe to be autonomous, but which is actually being operated by an unseen human being.


Berniecrat

(US politics) A Democratic supporter of Bernie Sanders or his policies.


Trumpistan

The essay helpfully applies lessons she learned in the Putinsphere to the Trumpistan she sees unfolding in the United States.

2016 November 11, Jonathan Chait, “Trumpistan Week One: The Unthinkable Slowly Becomes Normal”, in New York Magazine:

Welcome to Trumpistan, a country two weeks into the tumultuous rule of a miserable, cruel and seemingly captive president.

2017 February 3, Joy-Ann Reid, “In Trumpistan, Things Fall Apart”, in The Daily Beast:

So what’s it going to be, America: a democratic republic, or Trumpistan?

2018 May 23, Gene Lyons, “Welcome to Trumpistan, my fellow Americans”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

The United States under president Trump.


Clintonist

A word of caution however is needed in Clinton's relationship with Indochina, bearing in mind that his foreign policy is being determined by Carterites, Reagan Democrats and Clintonists.

This MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) professor, however, is neither a Seguinist nor a Chevenementist but... a Clintonist.

1993, Daily Report: West Europe, page 33:

(US politics) A supporter of Bill Clinton.

Many Clintonists invested their campaign with a self-mythologizing notion that theirs was a historic quest—to achieve, at long last, the greatest of all gender breakthroughs in the history of the nation, or even the world.

2015, Alan H. Levy, The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998: Electoral Failures and the Vagaries of Identity Politics, →ISBN, page 336:

“We find that individuals with only a few followers and individuals with hundreds of followers make up a larger share in the Trump camp than in the Clinton camp, while by contrast individuals with a few dozen to 200 followers have a larger presence among the Clintonists,” say Wu and co.

2016 March 18, “Twitter Facial Analysis Reveals Demographics of Presidential Campaign Followers”, in MIT Technology Review:

2017 July 23, Edward Helmore, "‘Dirtbag left’ takes aim at Clinton supporters", The Observer (UK, Sunday sister paper of The Guardian).
“The fear is we’re going to do ’68 over again and that’s the argument the Clintonists will make – that a battle within the Democratic party will help elect a conservative militia that will then, despite being a sociological minority, craft the institutions so they can remain a political majority.”

(US politics) A supporter of Hillary Clinton.


Clintonist

en-adj

Clintonist (comparative more Clintonist, superlative most Clintonist)

more Clintonist (comparative)
most Clintonist (superlative)

In the 1990s, setting his jaw against Clintonist internationalism, he moved into the public eye once more with his predictions of an impending "clash of civilizations," which made him a cause célèbre, especially among those who hoped that the end of the cold war would not mean the end of cold-war levels of military spending.

2005, Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, “Introduction”, in Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, editors, Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back, →ISBN, page 11:

(US politics) Pertaining to the politics of Bill Clinton or his supporters.

2017 July 23, Edward Helmore, "‘Dirtbag left’ takes aim at Clinton supporters", The Observer (UK, Sunday sister paper of The Guardian).
In a recent edition, Chapo co-host Will Menaker accused – and not for the first time – Clintonist liberalism of being the architect of its own defeats.

(US politics) Pertaining to the politics of Hillary Clinton or her supporters.


Dynamic Duo

A nickname for the fictional superheroes Batman and Robin as a team.


Trekkian

Trekkian (comparative more Trekkian, superlative most Trekkian)

more Trekkian (comparative)
most Trekkian (superlative)


Star Trekkian

Star Trekkian (comparative more Star Trekkian, superlative most Star Trekkian)

more Star Trekkian (comparative)
most Star Trekkian (superlative)

Of or relating to the Star Trek media franchise.


NuTrek

Obviously you've brought up NuWars and NuTrek the absolute rock bottom of modern blockbusters which I'm not going to defend

2020 April 21, anonymous author, “Re: How are western comics and cartoons art style received in Japan as opposed to how many westerners want to draw in an anime style?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

NuTrek and the ass goblins who tpost about it make my eyes bleed. It's so fucking boring watching retards shill the newest slop from Paramount

2024 June 25, anonymous author, “Re: /trek/”, in 4chan, retrieved 2024-08-26:

(fandom slang, derogatory) The films and television series in the Star Trek franchise from 2009 onward.


Abramsverse

From Abrams + -verse, after the American film director J. J. Abrams, involved in the reboot franchise's creation.

The "triumvirate" of Kirk-Spock-McCoy, often represented as central to the appeal of ST: TOS, is also seen as diminished by the Abramsverse in favor of emphasizing the Kirk-Spock relationship, […]

2015, Matt Hills, “From 'Multiverse' to 'Abramsverse': Blade Runner, Star Trek, Multiplicity, and the Authorizing of Cult/SF Worlds”, in J. P. Telotte, Gerald Duchovnay, editors, Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text, page 32:

Partly as a result of this division in intellectual property ownership, and the fact that Paramount had reimagined Star Trek via its differentiated 'Abramsverse,' it was actually not necessarily in Paramount's commercial interest to link Beyond to the anniversary of The Original Series.

2018, Derek Johnson, “Spin-offs, Crossovers, and World-building 'Energies'”, in Paola Brembilla, Ilaria A. De Pascalis, editors, Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes: A Narrative Ecosystem Framework, unnumbered page:

By comparison, the Abramsverse is a smaller and less interesting place, and it tends to be far more violent, frequently using the threat of genocide itself as entertainment, […]

2019, Ace G. Pilkington, “Science Fiction and the New Trek Timeline”, in Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Ace G. Pilkington, editors, The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams' Final Frontier, page 124:


Targ

If the Targ looks were carried by dominant genes, they wouldn't be so rare.

2005 January 18, Jenny Chase, “Re: Ashara Dayne”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):

Targs do like to marry other Targs.

2005 July 20, Palpie, “Re: *Bringing up an old topic*”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):

AND, if, in fact Jon turns out to be R+J^([sic]) after all, making him a Targ by blood if not even legally (who's to say Rhaegar didn't marry Lyanna? Wouldn't be the first time a Targ had two or more wives), what issue would this create with Jon having been made legally a Stark?

2008 July 9, vecki, “Jon Snow-Stark-Targaryen?”, in alt.fan.grrm (Usenet):

(ASoIaF/GOT fandom slang, often attributive) Any member of House Targaryen.


ASoIaF

There is an infinite amount of foods to choose from in ASoIaF, enough to fill an entire cookbook of its own.

2015, Cassandra Reeder, The Geeky Chef Cookbook: Real-Life Recipes for Your Favorite Fantasy Foods:

A Song of Ice and Fire
w:A Song of Ice and Fire


Doggettfic

No deadline to this challenge--but if you write fast, my birthday's on Thursday and a box full of Doggettfic would be a great present. ;)

2001 April 18, Bigbeautifulspoon, “Smash That Cliche! a Doggettfic challenge”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Although I won't archive Doggettfic on Xemplary, it isn't outlawed on the XF Creative Mailing List, where just about anything goes.

2001 July 13, Shannara, “Re: What's with the witch hunt of XF authors?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

there is less and less xf fanfic being written now, and most of it seems to be either Doggettfic or based on spoilers for season 9, neither of which i care for.

2001 October 12, Kelly, “update at A Quiet Plaace to Read”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(X-files fandom slang) Fan fiction about the character John Doggett from The X-Files.


Valyrian

From Valyria (“fictional location”) + -n.

constructed language
constructed language

A family of constructed languages created by David J. Peterson for the television adaptation of Game of Thrones.


Trumphobia

On 9/6/2015 9:14 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > On 2015-09-06, Mike B wrote: > I wonder if the strip will be affected by his move. (He now lives in Canada.)< Has he said why he moved - new job, new relationship? Trumphobia?

2015 September 6, Mark Jackson, “Deja Vu: Questionable Content”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet):

2016 March 9, Suffering From Trumphobia? Get Over It. The Wall Street Journal.
Edwark N. Luttwak writes that if you're suffering from Trumphobia, an irrational fear of Donald Trump becoming president, get over it.

Calls to crisis and suicide prevention hotlines surge post-election By Jessica Ravitz, CNN Updated 6:03 PM ET, Fri November 11, 2016

2016 November 12, “TRUMPHOBIA driving many Americans to suicidal despair”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

Apparently, some federal employees plan to quit employment due to a sudden onset of Trumphobia, including at least one VA psychologist.

2016 November 29, “Sudden Onset Of Trumphobia Causes VA Psychologist To Quit”, in Disabled Veterans:

He was also into hyperbole topped up with a dose of Trumphobia.

2017 May 11, “Gerard Henderson: Virginia Trioli says ABC needs more comedians”, in The Australian:

Trumphobia and how it can be cured by taking a closer look at South Africa. News24. "The next time you feel you are exhibiting Trumphobia combat it by educating yourself about the politics of countries like South Africa."


Trumpster

Phineas Taylor Barnum, godfather of the modern age of hot press and selfpromotion, was Donald's direct precursor, the man who anticipated the Trumpster more than a century before the Trumpster was born.

2005, Timothy L. O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

How long before he grew his thinning hair long enough to comb it over his receding hairline in the Trumpster's signature style?

2016, Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, page 105:

This guy, who sounds like what we might call a “Scottish redneck”, adamantly refused to knuckle under to the Trumpster, and sell out, or even clean up his “eyesore” property.

2012, Jeff Foulk, Jay A. Blum, Over the Ocean and to the Links: A Golfer's Journey, Malcolm Press, →ISBN:


Pizzagate

Battle of the Buffet
Pizzagate conspiracy theory

(slang) A 2016 conspiracy theory claiming that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, was involved in human trafficking, and alleging the existence of a secret child sex ring associated with the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington, D.C.


Amalgamverse

From amalgam + -verse, after Amalgam Comics.

Understandably, as both Cyborg and Deathlok were by and large good guys for most of their appearances. But, I guess the answer could be much like the Age of Apocalypse (where some formerly very good X-men were awfully mean) -- some events in the Amalgamverse were so different from regular continuity that a few of the good guys were warped (and some of the bad guys were un-warped, too, I think, though no examples come to mind).

1997 April 16, shawn h, “Re: Magnetic Men amalgams, part 2”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <5j1aks$mo0$1@news.fas.harvard.edu>:

Not to mention the fact that bringing Access into continuity emphasizes the existence of at least two alternate Universes, the Marvelverse and the Amalgamverse.

1997 November 23, Bala Menon, “Re: return to glory”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <658hj5$krl@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of the Amalgam Comics, which is populated by alternate versions of characters merged from Marvel Comics and DC Comics.


Nolanverse

From Nolan + -verse, after Christopher Nolan, the director of the films.

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of the Batman film trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan: Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).


Arrowverse

From arrow (“projectile that is shot from a bow”) + -verse, after Arrow (TV series), from Green Arrow (a fictional archer and superhero, the protagonist of the TV series).

af

(fandom slang) The fictional shared universe that serves as the setting of various live action series based on DC Comics superheroes: Arrow (2012), The Flash (2014), Legends of Tomorrow (2016), etc.

Arrow (TV series)
Arrowverse
Green Arrow


Timmverse

From Timm + -verse, after Bruce Timm, one of the creators of this universe.

I think the Batcave came from Batman's radio show. Renee Montoya, Harley Quinn from the animated series. Hey, before the Adam West show did anybody know Alfred was British? (maybe.) And a lot of the recent redesigns across the DCU have come from the Timmverse, including Robin's spiffy new duds.

2007 September 29, Denny Colt, “Re: JLA Movie: You Knew It Would Suck But This Badly?”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <1191098202.149049.200890@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>:

(fandom slang) The DC Animated Universe (DCAU).


Batmanverse

Not exactly, because in the Batmanverse, Robin's love is reciprocated by the super hero, so his leaving would be a romantic betrayal. >:-)

2003 February 27, Rose, “Re: ME vs The Fans (Storyteller spoilers)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet), message-ID <20030227110035.23170.00000150@mb-mk.aol.com>:

I think it is too soon for talking about the details of the story, but I can't wait to have the chance to work again with Jeph Loeb, the man who has stated the pillars of the modern Superverse and Batmanverse.

2003 December 1, Briker, “Loeb es la rehostia, Pacheco dixit”, in es.rec.comics (Usenet), message-ID <bqfts0$2339c3$1@ID-112383.news.uni-berlin.de>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe depicted in the Batman comics, films, television series and video games.


DCverse

From DC (ellipsis of DC Comics, originally initialism for Detective Comics) + -verse.

That said, I think the poster meant JUST AFTER the 9/11 attacks in 2001, no one woulda freaked out about them in the DCverse or Marvelverse since they would be par for the course from various supervillains, extradimensional gods and outer space aliens.

2013, Ken from Chicago, “Re: CW's Wonder Woman project gets new writer”, in rec.arts.sf.tv (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The fictional universe created by DC Comics.


Watchmenverse

I don't have the issues here with me, but I remember reading it at the time and saying "yup,he saved the world just about a month before the big Wall o' Energy (tm) comes plowin' through."
Okay, you can say Crisis never affected the Watchmenverse, but I prefer it this way. Adds to the tragic futility of it all...

1994 April 22, kristoff, “Re: Ozymandias- Got away with it?”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet), message-ID <2p8ib5$cvk@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>:

Hmmm ... 3 more universes + the Watchmenverse (because miracles can happen) we can expect to be folded in after the NEXT Final Crisis in 20 years! :-)

2007 June 7, CleV, “Re: The 52 Earths”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <4ing63145rjbakol2atrjnv9lrcq1hf5un@4ax.com>:

Nixon won in 1960 in the Watchmenverse, no?

2008 April 9, Michael Alan Chary, “Re: When Benderism Goes Bad”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <ftj1tg$dm7$1@reader2.panix.com>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of Watchmen, a DC Comics miniseries published in 1986, which also includes other related comics and media.


Smallvilleverse

From Smallville + -verse, after the TV show Smallville, named after a fictional rural American town of the same name, from Superman comics.

Now that doesn't mean that Smallville or the US in the Smallvilleverse hasn't banned human cloning, it is a TV show after all. Regardless, and something I should've mentioned in my original response, Clark and Lana likely told the sheriff about the little girls in the "incubators."

2003 May 8, Jedi Tyro, “Re: Why a police matter? (spoils 5/6/03)”, in alt.tv.smallville (Usenet), message-ID <1ayoo3ccaxb3r$.148xdxfv9ugcx.dlg@40tude.net>:

I'm also assuming that, given the age her mother died at and that she wasn't in the photos, that Lucy Lane, Lois' little sister, doesn't exist in the Smallvilleverse.

2004 October 8, ANIM8Rfsk, “Re: Sam Lane (Lois Lane's father)”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), message-ID <20041002185844.08240.00001474@mb-m18.aol.com>:

In the Smallvilleverse, Kryptonite also gives humans superpowers, so I would imagine it will as closely controlled as U 235 is, as soon as someone reveals to the public what meteor rocks do.

2006 August 27, James Nicoll, “Re: hero right on the boundary of the possible”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <ecssc3$bkm$1@reader2.panix.com>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of the TV show Smallville.

Smallville
Smallville (TV series)
Smallville (comics)
Smallville (place)
Superman


Ultimateverse

From ultimate + -verse, after Ultimate Marvel, an imprint of comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Since Ultimate Power now takes place before Ultimates 3, instead of after it, I guess the secret character switch between Squadron Supreme and Ultimateverse is not happening now (since there are now a LOT of stories taking place in the Ultimateverse after the switch was supposed to have happen).

2007 July 15, Wayne S Garmil, “Squadron Supreme and Ultimate Power question”, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe (Usenet), message-ID <f7bq57$9b1$1@pcls6.std.com>:

There's nothing to stop any of the comic companies producing realistic comic. Even the big two have gioven^([sic]) it a go. Ultimateverse nods in the general direction but doesn't really do anything more. Supreme Power was better but has since become more superheroey and is about to join the Ultimateverse officially.

2006 April 6, Fallen, “Re: Chucking Conventions (was Re: So Has The Hulk Finally Killed Someone?)”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <5HbZf.1556$QP1.794@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>:

My only minor complaint is I'm not terribly fond of Ultimate Pyro. I have a bit of a conservative streak in me - I'm fine with radical reinterpretations of 616 characters in the Ultimateverse, but when the original character is dead (or depowered or otherwise unrecognizeable from their original state), my feelings change.

2007 March 28, Peter Dimitriadis, “Unreachable Star Reviews March 28th, 2007 (SPOILERS)”, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks (Usenet), message-ID <1175113872.697206.68560@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>:

Totleben is handling the art on an upcoming issue of Marvel's "Ultimate Marvel Team-Up" book written by Brian Bendis and featuring the continuity-streamlined Ultimate Spider-Man teaming up with other characters from Marvel's Ultimateverse ...

2001 February 1, Beau Yarbrough, “The Comic Wire for February 1, 2001”, in alt.comics.batman (Usenet), message-ID <95b636$2u0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of Ultimate Marvel.


Glorithverse

According to the Bierbaum's sourcebook (I don't remember if this particular nugget was presented clearly in the comic itself...), the Glorithverse actually came in two pieces. The first iteration of the Glorithverse resulted from the events of v4 #5, and did not include the pocket universe, Superboy, et al. in any way, shape, or form. However, about ten issues later things changed again, […]

2003 July 25, Sean Daugherty, “Re: Return of Superboy to Legion”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh (Usenet), message-ID <e8789e16.0307242029.48bf3415@posting.google.com>:

(fandom slang) A fictional alternate universe created by DC Comics character Glorith, a foe of the Legion of Super-Heroes.


From 52 + -verse, after 52, a DC Comics limited series released in 2006. The "52" refers to fifty-two fictional parallel universes in the multiverse.

A second question, once again, haven't read the new stuff, but I saw a reference somewhere to The Authority moving to a "Low Energy Earth" with no heroes... could this be part of the 52verse... a possible Earth-Prime?

2007 July 16, Duggy, “52verse/Wildstorm”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <1184642670.175317.11580@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of DC Comics after the conclusion of Infinite Crisis, as shown in the 52 comic book series.


Disneyverse

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of Disney films, TV series, comics, video games, etc.


Vertigoverse

From vertigo + -verse, after Vertigo, a DC Comics imprint created in 1993.

Mordru is just being reintroduced in the LSH reboot. Universo and Time Trapper have not been reintorduced^([sic]) yet so they're unlikely. Phantom Stranger and Destiny maybe be trapped in the Vertigoverse which may make them unavailable. Dr. Fate isn't around any more. Brainwave and Ultra-Humanite are JSA villains so DC will deny they ever existed. Shazam will probably wind up being an Ally if he's used. Same with the Chief.

1997 January 20, Christopher L. Tumber, “Re: [OverPower] Which skill will now Dominate Tournaments?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.misc (Usenet), message-ID <5c04oc$soh@freenet-news.carleton.ca>:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of Vertigo, the DC Comics imprint.


Bat-embargo

From Bat- + embargo, reflecting a morphologic pattern established earlier by such terms as Bat-phone and Bat-signal.

Since certain characters are currently exclusive to The Batman, and therefore off-limits for JLU (not to mention Teen Titans--man, the Batman family is getting pretty spread out), I was wondering if any of those characters could appear in the Justice League Unlimited comic?

2005 August 4, Richmond, “Does the bat-embargo extend to JLU comics?”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <mCiIe.158498$HI.30430@edtnps84>:

But Robin is currently occupied in Teen Titans and I think this is a side effect of the Bat embargo affecting the DCU shows (No Bat-villains in the JLU any more for example).

2005 October 14, Brian Doyle, “Batman villains Q”, in rec.toys.action-figures.discuss (Usenet), message-ID <434FEA9D.5C6C8C54@nyc.rr.com>:

Of course, the bat-embargo works out here since the Batman villians need to survive for Batman Beyond. ;)

2006 February 9, Astrobiochemist, “Re: JLU Ep 5x12 Alive! SPOILERS AHEAD!”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <1139534265.256960.25620@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

Yes it did.I believe the name of that ep was "For The Man Who Has Everything".It had all the main players in it except,Robin.Which was probably due to the Bat-embargo the suits had going on which basically made it impossible for anyone from the Bat-books other than Batman to appear on JLU.

2007 February 13, George Alexander Jr., “Re: when was the last incredible Superman story?”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet), message-ID <12024-45D1642A-1219@storefull-3335.bay.webtv.net>:

But folks were also irked by the fact that the DCAU's beloved Justice League Unlimited, still in production when The Batman debuted, was forbidden from using most of the Dark Knight's rogue's gallery, since a "Bat-embargo" reserved them for the new series, while Batman Begins made the Scarecrow and Ra's Al Ghul unavailable to either show.

2017, Joseph McCabe, 100 Things Batman Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 375:

(fandom slang) A prohibition against having the same fictional characters appearing in multiple DC Comics animated series in the decade of the 2000s, which caused Batman's allies and enemies save for Batman himself to be unavailable for the animated series Justice League (although Joker, Clayface and Firefly made appearances in this show) and Justice League Unlimited, and Robin to be unavailable for animated series other than Teen Titans.


Man of Steel

A moniker for Superman, the fictional superhero.


continuing resolution

en-noun

continuing resolution (plural continuing resolutions)

From continuing + resolution. From being an act of congress (a congressional resolution) which extends the situation.

(US politics, law) An act of Congress which extends the current governmental budget situation through allocation of further funds in the same manner as the current budget, to avoid a government shutdown due to lack of allocated funding.


Dixie flag

(Southern US) The Confederate battle flag.


rebel flag

In fact, the rebel flag is so prolific in the revival some musicians intentionally avoid using it not because of racially charged meanings but to affirm their own uniqueness and individuality as southern rockers.

2017, Jason Eastman, The Southern Rock Revival: The Old South in a New World, page 190:

(Southern US) The Confederate battle flag


Louisiana Purchase

(historical, US) The acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles or 2.14 million km²) by the United States from France in 1803.


Hooverize

en-verb

Hooverize (third-person singular simple present Hooverizes, present participle Hooverizing, simple past and past participle Hooverized)

Hooverizes (present singular third-person)
Hooverizing (participle present)
Hooverized (participle past)
Hooverized (past)

From Hoover + -ize, named after Herbert Hoover, who, as head of the Food and Drug Administration during World War I, encouraged Americans to ration food. Apparently coined in the poem reproduced below.

The clean plate is the slogan of today, / And we this vital war-cry must obey, / And waste no single particle or crust / And save the scraps, for now we really must / Hooverize! / The empty garbage pail is now the rage, / And in this ‘war on waste’ which we must wage / To throw away an egg shell will be sin / So if, with great success, we are to win, / Hooverize! / Things must be canned which never were before, / We must have fruits and vegetables galore, / There must be lots of corn and beets and beans, / And to us all this warning simple means, / Hooverize! / Our soldiers must be fed in France and here, / To all of us our soldiers are most dear, / And we must ‘do our bit’ and help along, / And every one of us must sing the song, / Hooverize! / ‘Conserve your food supply and win the war,’ / All of you have read these words before, / But when you red them now remember you / Have got your ‘little bit’ cut out to do— / So Hooverize!

1917, Margaret Leet Beckman, “Hooverize!”, in Table Talk, volume 43, number 3, page 21:

‘Hooverize’ is the word in our national economical situation. Let us Hooverize in the telephone service; conserve the force that plays such an important role in our present-day business methods; save time; save electricity spent on tomfoolery gossipping over the wire; keep the front door for business wide open; Hooverize for measured service.

1918, Whilhelm Bodemann, “Hooverizing the Telephone”, in N.A.R.D. Journal, volume 26, page 25:

As William Leuchtenburg writes: So pervasive were the food administrator’s messages that Webster’s gained a new entry: Hooverize, meaning to economize in the national interest. It became a household word. A 1918 Valentine’s Day card read: I can Hooverize on dinner, / And on lights and fuel too, / But I'll never learn to Hooverize, / When it comes to loving you.

2017, Barry Riley, The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(dated, transitive, intransitive) To be economical in the use of a resource, particularly food.


Trumpworld

So, several figures inside Trumpworld have been wrestling with the very dilemma that animated my fictional characters. Put simply: if you’re convinced that the leader you serve is a danger to your country and the world, where does your patriotic and democratic duty lie?

2018 September 7, Jonathan Freedland, “If you were in the White House, how would you tackle Trump?”, in The Guardian:

Donald Trump's circle of associates, employees and appointees.

The mental landscape of Donald Trump or of his supporters.


Disney parent

(informal) A non-custodial parent who eludes disciplinary responsibilities over their children and pampers them with treats or gifts.


Eisenstadt

en-proper-noun

Eisenstadt (countable and uncountable, plural Eisenstadts)

(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Eisenstadt v. Baird. A 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that expanded legalized contraception, expanding access to contraceptives to unmarried couples, and effectively legalized premarital sex, under the Equal Protection Clause following the Griswold ruling; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


Dakotaverse

(fandom slang) The fictional universe of the city of Dakota, the home of the superheroes Static Shock, Icon, etc., in comics published by Milestone Media/DC Comics.


dummymander

(US politics) A gerrymander that has narrow margins to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party and has a high probability of backfiring.


Federal

(chiefly US, law) Alternative form of federal


macaca moment

In reference to US politician George Allen's use of the ethnic slur macaca in 2006.

(US politics, informal) A situation where a politician says something controversial that harms their chances of success.


ATWT

(television) Initialism of As the World Turns, an American television soap opera aired between 1956 and 2010.


Iuka

All are apparently named after the Chickasaw chief Iuka. Alternatively the Kansas town was named after the Battle of Iuka.

A village in Marion County, Illinois, United States.

A small city in Pratt County, Kansas, United States.

Livingston County
Livingston County#English

An unincorporated community in Livingston County, Kentucky, United States.

Tishomingo County
Tishomingo County#English

A city, the county seat of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, United States.

An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.


Spotsylvania Courthouse

census-designated place
census-designated place

Spotsylvania County
Spotsylvania County#English

A census-designated place, the county seat of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States.


Spotsylvania

From Alexander Spotswood (British colonial Lieutenant Governor of Virginia). From Spotswood (“from Spots(wood)”) + sylvan (“pertaining to woods, forest, from (Spots)wood”) + -ia.

af

a battle in the American Civil War; see Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.


Never Trumper

From Never Trump + -er, after one of the names applied to the Stop Trump movement.

...the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness.

2019 November, Donald Trump (as quoted by AP Newshttps://apnews.com/7bc6f95f311a46dcbc0e75bdd2f25b1b)

(US politics) A conservative who opposes Donald Trump.


Bushlicker

Mike is such a Bushlicker; I spoke out against Bush's position on marijuana and he said, "How DARE you question our president's position on drugs after 9/11!"

Why the hell've you gotta be such a big Bushlicker? The way you say we should be "rallying around" him couldn't make me sicker

2003 August 24, savegra...@yahoo.com, “Funny song: Bushlicker”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet):

Pass-the-buck Bush after the bankruptcy predictably claimed that he barely knew Kenny-Boy; this lie even the most fawning Bushlicker couldn't buy.

2004, Robert Sterling, 50 Reasons Not to Vote for Bush, →ISBN, page 76:

Tell us how you are proud to be a Bushlicker.

2006 April 20, Ryd, “Is T-Bone the Biggest Bushlicker On Usenet?”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(informal, derogatory) A person who acted or spoke sycophantically towards the authority of former U.S. president George W. Bush.


Vietnam syndrome

In reference to the domestic controversy over the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.

(US politics) Public aversion to overseas military actions by the United States.


DFLer

(US politics) A member or supporter of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.


Trumpite

en-adj

Trumpite (comparative more Trumpite, superlative most Trumpite)

more Trumpite (comparative)
most Trumpite (superlative)


Trumpite

What do an Etonian, a Trumpite and a Corbyn fan have in common? My church.

2017 December 28, Giles Fraser, Guardian:


Bernie bro

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A male political supporter of the US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.


Shillary

Blend of shill + Hillary, likely to invoke the view that Hillary Clinton serves corporate interests, lobbyists, etc. over the voters she represents.

If Shillary gets the Nomination theres^([sic]) still a chance to win via write in candidates. And even if Bernie "looses"^([sic]) the number of votes taken from Hillary will make it quite apparent that she does NOT have the support of the progressive base. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HER.

2015, §nühw¤Łf, “Re: Shillary wants your emailz”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):

Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye.

2016 February 13, Gene Lyons, anonymous quotee, “Understanding the 'Bernie Bros'”, in The Daily Journal, volume 83, number 37, page A11:

Idiot Trump is going to beat up Idiot Joe so viciously that it will be almost as satisfying as when Idiot Trump ended Shillary's career.

2020 April 18, Uchena Shorey, “Our demise”, in Daily News, volume 101, number 298, Voice of the People, page 19:

(US politics, derogatory) Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician and diplomat, former first lady (1993–2001) and secretary of state (2009–2013) of the United States.


Kinsley gaffe

Named after American journalist Michael Kinsley (b. 1951), who drew attention to the phenomenon.

They said it had been only a trial run, posted in error, showing hypothetical results from one small electoral district. You might call this a sort of Kinsley gaffe on a national scale.

2013 October 9, Max Fisher, The Washington Post:

Give Thune credit for candor, or at least for a Kinsley gaffe: Intentionally or not, he made clear that the game was getting the best available walk-back and moving on.

2018, David A. Graham, “Trump Can Never Go Too Far for Republicans”, in The Atlantic:

(US politics) A mistake whereby a politician inadvertently says something truthful which they had not meant to reveal.


couch gag

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-couch gag.wav

A visual joke at the end of the opening credits of a Simpsons episode, during which the Simpson family settles down to watch television.


Mango Mussolini

Mango refers to Trump's orangish skin tone; the reference to Benito Mussolini is because of Trump's conservative nationalist politics, which his opponents liken to fascism.

Also, Bill Maher is a liberal in the same way Mango Mussolini is a conservative.

2017 June 6, Freezer, “LIEberal ICON Bill Maher uses N-Word, is NOT called, "RACIST!!! by LIEberals, and is NOT suspended”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory, slang, offensive) Donald Trump.


Chimperor

Blend of chimp + emperor, compare Chimpy.

Now, pulling out a goodly number of troops and replacing them with international soldiers, plus forfeiting the "leadership" position to the UN sounds like a good deal. Fat chance the Chimperor will let that happen.

2004 April 23, Max O., “Re: Why Bush's war has already failed”, in nashville.general (Usenet):

The Chimperor lets water supplies get diluted with mercury and arsenic, led Texas to have one of the WORST water and air quality scores during his tenure as gubnor...

2004 October 9, DaveNOSPAM, “"Culture of Life" ??????? WTF?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Could be a modern day indictment against the Chimperor. Especially the "I tell you one and one makes three" part. Time to overthrow those damned activist mathematicians!

2006 May 31, Jason Todd, “Re: On the cover of National Review: 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs”, in alt.punk (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009), seen as a tyrant.


QAnon

/ˌkjʉː ɘˈnɔn/

Q clearance
United States Department of Energy

From Q + anon. From the United States Department of Energy's Q clearance + anonymous. Compare Q (“QAnon”).

2017 November 18, Amazing Answers, “RE: Who is QAnon?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

In October, an anonymous 4chan account began making cryptic posts about earth-changing political and judicial events to come. Ever since then, conspiracy theorists, journalists, and amused observers have speculated about who was behind the account that has come to be known as QAnon.

2018 May 29, Mike Rothschild, “Who is Q Anon, the internet’s most mysterious poster?”, in The Daily Dot:

The question “Who is the most hilarious person QAnon could turn out to be?” yielded thousands of responses. Here are the best and most common ones.

2018 August 6, Joe Berkowitz, “Who is the mastermind behind QAnon? Twitter has some fun theories”, in Fast Company:

In The mysterious figure called “Q” or “QAnon” first appeared online on Oct. 28, 2017, with a post on the far-right /pol/ message board of 4chan that they had inside information about a secret plot being hatched by the Trump administration.

2018 November 11, Michael Barkun, “Failed Prophecies Won’t Stop Trump’s True Believers”, in Foreign Policy:

(US politics) An anonymous poster on the Internet message boards 4chan, 8chan and 8kun, claiming to possess Q clearance, who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory claiming that Donald Trump is working against a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles comprised of his political opponents.

These bizarre results, first spotted by the NBC reporter Ben Collins, are not the result of the latest #MeToo era investigation reporting. Instead, they are the entirely unsubstantiated manifestation of a sprawling rightwing conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
[…] Joseph Uscinski, a University of Miami professor who studies conspiracy theories, said by phone that QAnon remains a “fringe” belief held by “a very small number of people”.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

It's nebulous and continuously changing to adapt to current events, but the overarching conspiracy theory has been given a name: "QAnon".
 […] The baseless core of the QAnon story is that the Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia is actually an investigation into global elites, and that the president is masterminding a secret plan to arrest top politicians and Hollywood stars for corruption and child abuse.

2018 August 2, Elizabeth Cassin, Mike Wendling, “QAnon: What's the truth behind a pro-Trump conspiracy theory?”, in BBC:

QAnon, whose supporters also call it “The Storm” or “Great Awakening,” is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory that burst into greater visibility this summer, after supporters at a Trump rally wearing Q shirts prompted a rush of national media coverage about it.

2018 September 12, Abby Ohlheiser, “Reddit bans r/greatawakening, the main subreddit for QAnon conspiracy theorists”, in The Washington Post:

Like much of the new conspiracism, QAnon began with conspiracy entrepreneurs.[…]11. For instance, on August 3, 2018, the authors consulted the discussion of “clues” by QAnon researchers on the following Reddit.com message board: https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/84sam4/does_anyone_have_the_link_to_the_current_8chan/.

2019 April 16, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy, Princeton University Press, pages 133 (Who Owns Reality?) and 195 (Notes):

(US politics) The conspiracy theory originated by this anonymous poster.

If QAnon's claims were true, they would shake the very foundations of global government and explain the confusion of politics in recent years. As it is, they are not true – but their importance could nonetheless be hugely significant.

2018 August 2, Andrew Griffin, “What is QAnon? The origins of the bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that Trump-Russia investigation is a hoax to catch pedophiles”, in The Independent:

A group dubbed "QAnon" has emerged at Trump campaign events recently. They follow and try to decipher the online posts of someone named "Q", who traffics in conspiracy theories focused on people in government and media.

2018 August 3, Jeff Brady, “QAnon: The Conspiracy Theorist Group That Appears At Trump Rallies”, in NPR:

"What a movement such as QAnon has going for it, and why it will catch on like wildfire, is that it makes people feel connected to something important that other people don’t yet know about,” says cult expert Rachel Bernstein, who specializes in recovery therapy. "All cults will provide this feeling of being special.”

2018 November 12, Renee Diresta, “Online Conspiracy Groups are a Lot Like Cults”, in Wired:

(US politics) The movement supporting this conspiracy theory.


Trumptard

@MyInfidelAnna I’m thinking Anna’s brain got grabbed, logic is hard for Trumptards.

2018, Judith E. Rosenbaum, quoting @jdgirl99, “#MAGA, #ImWithHer, and #Snowflake: Politics and Twitter”, in Constructing Digital Cultures: Tweets, Trends, Race, and Gender, Lexington Books, →ISBN, section “Tweeting with a Passion: Twitter, Politics, and Social Justice”, page 206:

Finally, Hannity cited a tweet from the account @TheResistANNce, apparently run by a self-identified progressive schoolteacher: “Oh, they’re probably Trumptards,” wrote the Twitter user, referring to the concert audience.

2018, Ben Sasse, “The Polarization Business Model”, in Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part II (Anti-Tribes), page 108:

Every one of those girls, I respected, supported in my own way. Till some became Trumptards on their Twitter, then you just gotta fap to them being disrespected. But the rest—mad respect.

2022, Miguel Syjuco, I Was the President’s Mistress!!, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

(US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A supporter of Donald Trump; a Trumpist.


Mickey Mouse plant

en-noun

Mickey Mouse plant (plural Mickey Mouse plants)

Any of several plants in the genus Ochna which have large, black fruits that look like the ears on an upside-down Mickey Mouse cap.


Scaramucci

Anthony Scaramucci
White House Director of Communications

Borrowed from Italian Scaramucci, the measurement comes from Anthony Scaramucci's short time as White House Director of Communications.

Ardern's peroration began, “It's been three weeks now since I was asked to take this job ...” From the crowd, a laugh of astonishment. In the space of only two Scaramuccis, to steal the unit of measurement of the day, she had transformed the fortunes of the Labour Party.

2017, Toby Manhire, “The rapture”, in Toby Manhire, editor, The Spinoff Book, New Zealand: Penguin Random House, published 2019, →ISBN:

My White House tenure lasted for approximately 220 “Scaramuccis.”

2018, Dan Pfeiffer, Yes We (Still) Can, London: Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

If Trump himself had been more experienced at governing, or if he'd kept some senior officials longer than one or two Scaramuccis, or if he'd surrounded himself with true pros, not sycophants and sons-in-law, things might have been different.

2020, Paul Begala, You're Fired, New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 14:

(humorous, US politics) A unit of time equal to the duration of Anthony Scaramucci's tenure as White House Director of Communications, variously defined as 10 or 11 days.


Buffyspeak

As one would say in Buffyspeak, soak in the irony for a moment.

2006, Jennifer Ouellette, The Physics of the Buffyverse, unnumbered page:

During "The Writing for Teens and Television" symposium, in an exchange about adolescent language, Whedon readily admits, as he has done in other interviews, that Buffyspeak was his creation and not intended to be mimetic.

2007, Dear Angela: Remember My So-Called Life, page 216:

The linguistic distinctiveness of Buffyspeak is not reproduced in the Italian version, where teenagers' speech style is, at most, characterized by an informality which does not have any particular connotation as 'youth language.'

2008, Diana Bianchi, “Taming teen-language: The adaptation of Buffyspeak into Italian”, in Delia Chiaro, Christine Heiss, Chiara Bucaria, editors, Between Text and Image: Updating Research in Screen Translation, page 187:

(fandom slang) The invented slang used by characters on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


mumbly Joe

From “Treehouse of Horror VII”, an episode of The Simpsons. In it, Homer Simpson uses the term to refer to real-life politician and then–US presidential candidate Bob Dole.

"Except, um... there's this election next week, so after that, it might not be him anymore. It might be what's-his-name, uh... Mumbly Joe, uh... I saw him on TV the other... uh... Bob Dole!"

1996 October 27, David S. Cohen, Dan Greaney, Ken Keeler, “Treehouse of Horror VII”, in The Simpsons, season 8, episode 1 (television show), spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta), via Fox:

"For instance, Phoenix’s infamous interview with David Letterman, which first introduced a wide audience to Phoenix’s mumbly Joe would-be rap star character, has now been revealed to be a joke that even Letterman himself was in on."

2010 September 20, Sean O'Neal, “Yes, David Letterman knew that Joaquin Phoenix was not really a crazy rapper”, in AV News, archived from the original on 2019-11-20:

"Maybe it’s because this version of Hex is a real mumbly Joe (even when he’s yelling), but I did think it was hard to follow what he told Sara about his past."

2016 November 18, Dylan Todd, Matt Wilson, “‘LEGENDS OF TOMORROW’ POST-SHOW RECAP: SEASON 2, EPISODE 6: ‘OUTLAW COUNTRY’”, in Comics Alliance:

(slang, humorous) Someone who mumbles and is difficult to understand when speaking.

Bob Dole
Homer Simpson
The Simpsons
Treehouse of Horror VII


Radical Republican

Radical Republican (plural Radical Republicans)

(historical) A member of the Republican Party or the Radical Republican Party in the United States, who supported Reconstruction as the rapid full emancipation of African Americans and continuation of the martial law regime in former Confederate states.


sweet summer child

sweet summer child (plural sweet summer children)

As an idiomatic phrase, apparently from the 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, although isolated occurrences go back to the 1800s. In the novel, a young boy is called a "sweet summer child" by an old woman, since seasons last for years in the novel's world and he has yet to experience winter. Later popularized by its use in the episode "Lord Snow" (2011) of the television adaptation Game of Thrones.

Don't think people have tried to put Mario games in order? Oh sweet summer child.

2015 February 19, Christopher Castano, “Out Of Control”, in The Georgetown Voice, Georgetown University, page 10:

"Starts?" I hear you cry, "How can it get any weirder than that?". Oh, my sweet summer children, what George wants me to do while he licks my feet clean is take pictures and humiliate him.

2019, Dee Dickens, Duct Tape and Daddy Issues: Phone-Sex Worker Tells All, unnumbered page:

It can't be worse than "X-Men: The Last Stand," can it? Oh, sweet summer child. It can always get worse…especially in Hollywood.

2019 October 24, Jared Rasic, “Film Shorts”, in Source Weekly, page 34:

(often sarcastic) Someone who is naive, or who has never experienced hardship.

A Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
Lord Snow


Three Amigos

From three + amigo. From Spanish amigo (“friend”), and there being three of them.

NORAD

North American Aerospace Defense Command

(plural only, informal, Canada, US, politics) Canada, Mexico, and the United States.


Dickbats

From Dick (first name of Dick Grayson) + Bats (nickname for Batman).

compound

I refuse to call him Dickbats. I know many of you call him that, but I won’t.

2012 October 13, Andrew Asberry, “Batman: Knightfall Vol. 3 – Knightsend review”, in Batman News:

With the man who beat him out of the picture, Croc settles for a scuffle with Dickbats and Robin.

2016 July 16, Brian Warshaw, “Batman: Arkham: Killer Croc review”, in Batman News:

The dialogue is also classic King, with Gordon saying to Dickbats “you’re not him. You’re that other him.”

2018 July 20, Quinn Morris, “Comic Review: Batman #51”, in Sequential Planet:

(fandom slang) Dick Grayson in the role of Batman.


Trumpophobic

en-adj

Trumpophobic (comparative more Trumpophobic, superlative most Trumpophobic)

more Trumpophobic (comparative)
most Trumpophobic (superlative)

Now, like many other Trumpophobic Republicans, he (Lindsey Graham) fears that, should the Donald be duly nominated in Cleveland in July and then whipped by Hillary Clinton in November, Republicans will spend the next few decades hanging upside-down in a cave.

2016 March 2, “How Donald Trump happened”, in Macleans.ca:

Once again, the Trumpophobic Left has proved that it will not give President Donald J. Trump credit for anything

2017 April 18, “The MOAB Attack on ISIS Was a Beautiful Bargain”, in National Review:

the effort to turn this into an illegal campaign contribution reaches a new depth in Trumpophobic improvisation.

2018 May 9, “How a Febrile Press Whipped Up Anger At Trump, for Nothing”, in New York Sun:

Characterized by hatred or fear of Donald Trump.


Trumpophobia

At home, I see intolerance, various forms of prejudice, demonisation and the exploitation of fear – the last like shooting at the side of a barn, in the American context – at work in our Trumpophobia. This is the soft despotism of the American neoliberal.

2016, Stan Grant, Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming:

Heer, who writes a bi-weekly column with headings such as “Steve Bannon is Turning Trump into an Ethno-Nationalist Ideologue” and “Donald Trump is the Bizarro Noam Chomsky”, appears to have contracted a particularly virulent strain of Trumpophobia

2017 April 20, D McCann, “The new totalitarians: Fresh thoughts on James Burnham”, in Quadrant:

Comedian Bill Maher — currently in the midst of his 15th season on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" — has certainly been the beneficiary of increased viewership due to Trumpophobia.

2017 May 7, Zach Freeman, “Maher needed to put away his notebook and be present at Chicago Theater”, in Chicago Tribune:

Alan Dershowitz, a Clinton voter in the last election, warned that the effort to escalate perfervid Trumpophobia from criminalization of policy differences (as well as sour grapes over the lost election) to “psychiatrization” was even more sinister and anti-democratic.

2018 January 10, Conrad Black, “Michael Wolff and the Death Rattle of Trumpophobia”, in National Review:

We may disapprove of Donald Trump's crude behaviors and documented low respect for truth[3]. However, these may have created a kind of Trumpophobia that leads otherwise thoughtful people to exaggerate earlier positive influences of US foreign policy

2018, FT Manheim, “Is Donald Trump's Influence on World Affairs Really Worse than Earlier American Policies?”, in papers.ssrn.com:

(US, politics, informal) Fear of Donald Trump


Republicant

"[…]I mean ... republicant's will use anything, even a person's own humanity against them, Just don't go out of your way to mention it at every campaign stop, If somebody asks, you can tell 'em if it's any of their business a' course."

2008, Ross Nicholson, Hillary's Angel: The McGovern Campaign in Dallas, Texas, 1972: What Happened to Hillary Clinton Thirty-Five Years Ago, page 141:

The Kennedy family has been an inspiration to all of humanity. As I write this, Ted is in my prayers as he battles a brain tumor. And for the record, I am not a Democrat (Demobrat) or a Republican (Republicant). I am a Godsurecan!

2009, Hippie Bob, Hippie Bob & the Chocolate Factory: A True Fairytale, page 63:

And that goes double and then some for them folks that strutted around the Republicant Convention wearing Purple Heart band aids and otherwise putting down everybody that has ever fought and died for our country.

2010, Terry P. Rizzuti, R. E. Armstrong, The Life and Times of Bubba Lee Boatbum, page 29:

Congress was an ineffective mix of "blue balls" and "blue-dog" Democrats, "Republi-Dems", and "Republicants."

2012, W.J. Reichertz, Purpose Beyond 2012: The Wisconsin Idea, Occupy Wall Street and Democracy's Future:

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A member, especially a politician, of the Republican Party (with an implication that they are unable to get things done).


Cadillac tax

(US politics, informal) The excise tax levied on particularly expensive private health insurance plans, so-called Cadillac plans.


BBT

(television) Initialism of Big Bang Theory, a US sitcom first aired in 2007.


Clintonoid

en-adjective

Clintonoid (comparative more Clintonoid, superlative most Clintonoid)

more Clintonoid (comparative)
most Clintonoid (superlative)

Which Clintonoid columnist or propagandist did not employ this dramatic phrase, as their hero found himself at the mercy, not of a law 'n' order Democrat on the approved model, but of a law 'n' order Republican?

1999, Christopher Hitchens, chapter 3, in No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton:

But this, he asserted, "does not require the rhetoric of reparations," and it fit what he called "the Clintonoid tenor of sappy public apologies and maudlin psychobabble about collective pain and healing."

2005, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey, The Limits of Law, →ISBN, page 89:

Clintonoid liberals have their own narratives that minimize the lessons to be drawn from Trump's victory.

2018, Adolph L. Reed Jr., “Foreword”, in Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement:

(derogatory, informal, US) Clintonian: relating to or supporting Bill or Hillary Clinton.


Clintonoid

A Clintonoid would be able to easily dismiss it as just some sort of clerical error if it weren't so logically cohesive.

1995, Michael Cliff Kellett, The Murder of Vince Foster, page 135:

Samuel Francis sounds like a Clintonoid in his column "Will Europe Survive?" (Principalities & Powers, August).

2016, Ted Rall for Counterpunch, Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote:

(derogatory, informal, US) A Clintonite.


mind meld

From the Star Trek franchise, where the term was first used in 1966 for a telepathic ability possessed by the alien race of Vulcans to share thoughts and feelings with another individual.

By this point, Axelrod's mind meld with Obama was so complete that the two men barely needed to speak.

2018, Didier Ndongala Mumbata, Barack Obama, The Political Phenomenon, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 134:

(colloquial) A state of deep compatibility in opinion or plans between two people.


drain the swamp

en-verb

drain the swamp (third-person singular simple present drains the swamp, present participle draining the swamp, simple past and past participle drained the swamp)

drains the swamp (present singular third-person)
draining the swamp (participle present)
drained the swamp (participle past)
drained the swamp (past)

(figurative, US politics) To eliminate the root causes of problems, especially to rid politics and government of evils, such as corruption and bureaucracy.


Trumperor

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Trumperor.

(US politics, informal, derogatory) U.S. president Donald Trump, seen as a tyrant.


Hitlery

Given the perverted acts of her "husband", there were in January 1998 two alternate dramatic ways Hitlery could establish her legacy as America's Top Feminist: […]

1998 September 20, Reynmeistr, “The Legacy of HITLERY”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):

It looks as if Hitlery Clinton went to visit some wives, of Marines that are getting ready to ship out to go kick Sadam's ass. To bad for Hitlery that most of those wives did not want Hitlery to be anywhere around them.

2003 January 26, Alvin Valkenheiser, “HITLERY CLINTON IN UPSTATE N.Y.”, in nyc.politics (Usenet):

Hitlery’s most recent rhetoric about guns are the usual boiler-plate Democrat talking points: close the online and gun show loophole, ban guns for those on the no fly list, etc.

2015 December 30, Roddy D. Riggs, “Letters to the Editor: Gun Blather is Usual Rhetoric”, in Belleville News-Democrat, volume 158, number 364, Belleville, Ill., page 2C:

(US politics, derogatory) Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician and diplomat, former first lady (1993–2001) and secretary of state (2009–2013) of the United States.


Shrub

A play on his surname Bush, a shrub being a smaller bush, thus indicating that he is the junior Bush in relation to his father George H. W. Bush. Popularized by American newspaper columnist Molly Ivins (1944–2007), who co-wrote Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (2000) with Lou Dubose.

Ann Richards [...] is running for reelection as Governor of Texas against George W. Bush, a Republican and the eldest son of the former President. […] She derides him as “all hat and no cattle.” […] Her followers hand out bumper stickers saying: “Don't elect the son-of-a-Bush.” They call him “Shrub.”

1994 October 20, Ian Brodie, “Lone Star governor struggles to uproot the Shrub”, in The Times, London, page 15:

For the past five days, mostly in New York and SC, the Shrub has apparently been running ads that characterize McCain’s policy proposals in what Murphy terms a “willfully distorting” way.

2000 April 13, David Foster Wallace, “David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’”, in Rolling Stone:

If this tax-cut were proposed in exactly opposite proportions, conservatives would be screaming about communist re-distribution of wealth and having aneurysms right and left. It’s much better when the rich take from the poor. After all, the American rich are oppressed and deserve this windfall. Shrub said so. It must be true.

2001 April 4, David Hollingsworth, “Readers’ views: Tax cut helps only rich”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, volume 19, number 91, Lexington, Ky., page A10:

It seems that a recent letter opines that President Shrub deserves our loyalty simply because we can’t possibly know his decision making “unless we were to step into the role as president.” […] As to our inability to understand his choices, Shrub has a record in Texas.

2001 May 7, Dick Goodemoot, “Letters: President Bush deserves disrespect”, in Corvallis Gazette-Times, volume 139, number 127, Corvallis, Ore., page A11:

Less than 24 hours after the idiot Shrub gives that disasterous inaugural speech of his, the Shrub's daddy goes to the media to apologize to the world for his son's crazy talk. Shrub's daddy is now going around trying to reassure other countries that his son didn't really mean what he said and that he is not really going to invade them after all.

2005 January 24, AbelM...@webtv.net, “Shrub is a Certifiable Loon & The Whole World Knows This.”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

George H. W. Bush
Lou Dubose
Molly Ivins


Forrest Trump

From Forrest Gump, the slow-witted title character of the 1994 film and 1986 book Forrest Gump.

What owns Atlantic City and sits on a park bench?
Forrest Trump.

1994 October 25, Paul Kowalski, “Forrest Gump”, in alt.tasteless.jokes (Usenet):

Your assertion that getting it down to 2 people makes it easier to prevent Forrest Trump's gaining a majority is ridiculous .^([sic])

2016 March 6, halfpastdead9, “ROMNEY/KASICH”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

(derogatory) Nickname for Donald John Trump.


Shrubya

If I believed Shrubya could learn from experience, and take correction, I wouldn't be as worried about the meanspirited manipulative rat being the Republicratic nominee.

2000 September 13, STella, “Re: Bush vs.Subliminable Messages”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

Clinton worked hard and did some good things. To his detractors: he’s gone folks, get over it. Your “Shrubya” was appointed by the U.S. Supremes. So the rich get richer, the economy heads south, public schools may begin Bible study, Roe v. Wade’s days are numbered, and the environment is secondary to corporate profits.

2001 February 21, John R. Love, “Letters to the editor: The blame game”, in Idaho Statesman, volume 137, number 210, Boise, ID, page 14:

President Shrubya expressed shock and dismay today over the fact that his energy policies have brought exploding gas prices and huge new profits to his friends in the oil industry.

2001 May 18, Doug Robarchek, “Shrubya taking big oil profits mighty hard, sources claim”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 132, number 138, Charlotte, NC, page 13B:

Years ago, in response to some political bullshit heaved by Shrubya and his ignoble Cabal of Curs, I remember seeing long lines of people outside Mexican consular offices waiting to get a Matricula Consular card.

2017 March 24–30, Gustavo Arellano, quoting Gringo Wants to Play Bingo, “¡Ask a Mexican!”, in OC Weekly, volume 22, number 30, page 8:


Obummer

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Barack Obama, mostly used by conservative detractors.


ruby red

(US politics) Extremely Republican-leaning.


DSA

Until very recently, it wasn’t that socialism was toxic in a red-scare way. It was irrelevant, in a dustbin-of-history way. But then came Bernie Sanders’s 2016 candidacy, then the membership boom of DSA, then the proliferation of socialist cultural products like Chapo, and then, finally, the spectacular rise of Ocasio-Cortez.

2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine:

Democratic Socialists of America
w:Democratic Socialists of America

(US politics, socialism) Initialism of Democratic Socialists of America.


Chimpy McFlightsuit

From Chimpy (“George W. Bush”) + Mc- + flightsuit. Referring to the flightsuit that Bush wore in his "mission accomplished" stunt in 2003.

[see title]

2006 April 26, the scarey internet, “Chimpy McFlightsuit selects Max Headroom as his spokesperson”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

[see title]

2007 February 5, anonymous author, “Chimpy McFlightsuit wants $ for Iran War”, in alt.military.retired (Usenet):

For 76 minutes, President Chimpy McFlightSuit prowled the stage Wednesday in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, giving a speech and answering questions about everything from his opposition to tax increases to his veto of a bill to expand children's health insurance.

2007 October 4, BizarroBush, “Audience Endures 76 Mins Of Chimpy McFlightSuit”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet):


LaRouchebag

Your meaning was always clear. Equally clear is how adherance to LaRouche "philosophy" effectively negates one's ability to have a meaningful impact on most discussions, if for no other reason than others' inability to take a LaRouchebag seriously.

2003 August 21, Jamie, “#HOT! US deploys nuclear missiles in Israeli subs”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

Larouchebag is a racist douche bag who was one of the originators of Urban mythology.

2005 November 14, George, “Many in Jordan See Old Enemy in Attack: Israel”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

..., 29, is a follower of cultish, crypto-anti-Semitic pseudo-leftist Lyndon Larouche, also known as a LaRouchebag.

2010 August 9, Twitchell, “Crazy Town Hall Lady Wants To Win Barney Frank's Seat, Colonize Mars”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A political follower of Lyndon LaRouche.


Jediist

en-adj

Jediist (comparative more Jediist, superlative most Jediist)

more Jediist (comparative)
most Jediist (superlative)


Russiagater

(US politics, derogatory) One who strongly believes or advocates that there was and possibly still is collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign/subsequent administration and the Russian government.


Chimpy McHalliburton

From Chimpy (“George W. Bush”) + Mc- + Halliburton. Named after oil field service company Halliburton, stemming from accusations that Bush is beholden to Big Oil.

The President shouldn't aughta be running all over trying to police the world. Chimpy McHalliburton is just trying to line his Hitlerlike pockets. This is really all just Clinton's fault anyways.

2006 March 4, Charles Beauchamp, “Re: For Dinner This Week”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

As already noted, he should be embarrassed to be attempting to argue about these issues when he's so ignorant of them. Guess it's easier to hope that Chimpy McHalliburton chokes to death on a pretzel. That requires no thought, or knowledge at all.

2007 January 22, Rand Simberg, “Re: Did The Chinese Violate Any Treaties?”, in sci.space.history (Usenet):

The thought of President Chimpy McHalliburton having nukes raised my red flag for 8 years.

2009 September 21, Sharky, “GOP's Ahmadinejad”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):

The notion that Tea Partiers are a bunch of Timothy McVeigh wannabes and big-money marionettes is almost gospel among the folks who think 9/11 was an inside job and consider calling George W. Bush “Chimpy McHalliburton” the height of political wit.

2010 October 8, A. Barton Hinkle, “Tea Partiers' Good Intentions Might Not Suffice”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch, volume 160, number 281, Richmond, Va., page A11:


Chimpy McHitlerburton

Blend of Chimpy McHalliburton (“George W. Bush”) + Hitler, comparing Bush to German dictator Adolf Hitler.

blend

I agree with you. I'm not sure why Jeff is trying to make it into one, other than his hate of Chimpy McHitlerburton.

2005 June 27, Matthew Hennig, “Bush League Private Property”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

No, no, no, can't you see? It was Chimpy McHitlerburton's fault! And global warming too!

2007 August 2, Fester, “Re: A bridge collapses in Minneapolis.”, in us.military.army (Usenet):

When George W. Bush suggested Iran’s acquisition of nuclear arms technology might be a catalyst for World War III, progressive-minded people took it as a sign that Chimpy W. McHitlerburton is off his neocon rocker.

2007 November 2, Jonathan Gurwitz, “Iran, the bomb and World War III”, in Times-News, volume 102, number 306, Twin Falls, ID, page A6:

The above tells me that you would rather have faith in the eeevilitude of Chimpy McHitlerBurton than deal with reality.

2008 December 29, Fred Stone, “Re: OT: Dan Rather $70M Suit To Hit Bush 'Legacy' Hard”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):


Sniktbub

From snikt (sound of Wolverine's claws) + bub (term of address used by Wolverine).

compound

If you're one of the many thousands of comic book fans who skipped over Keanu Reeves' "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and got your Sniktbub trailer fix from a blurry, shaky-cam video on YouTube, I've got some good news for you.

2008 December 16, Jared Rea, “New "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" Trailer”, in The Escapist, archived from the original on 2018-11-22:

(fandom slang) A nickname for Wolverine.


paytriot

Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?

2013 May 15, Stephen Lemons, “Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe”, in Phoenix New Times, archived from the original on 2019-03-11:

He has been called out as a supposed “secret government agent,” labeled a parasitic “pay-triot,” and even laughed at for his “botched” suicide attempt (where one commentator suggested that if a Green Beret wanted to kill himself, he would certainly know how to do it).

2018, Jeanne M. Haskin, ‘When All Roads Lead to the Standoff: How Corporate Governance Fuels White Supremacy, Algora Publishing, page 110:

Many of them turned to Neon Revolt, one of the most popular Q bloggers and a "paytriot" (i.e. someone who's trying to make a living off of Q Anon). Neon Revolt is widely read and respected among qultists. He directed Redditors to go to Voat's new Q sub, v/TheAwakening, the one started by former Reddit GA admins. This of course angered Voaters, but had nothing on what was going to happen next.

2018 September 15, Plexipus (username), “‘The famous Q blogger and "paytriot," Neon Revolt, accuses v/GreatAwakening of being compromised in a poorly researched post. Huge drama BOOM on Voat. But could there be more to his story than he realizes?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2018-09-15:

(derogatory, rare) A right-wing activist (especially a supporter of the QAnon movement) who uses the movement to make money for themselves rather than to advance its goals.


The Storm

From Donald Trump's mention of "the calm before the storm" in an October 2017 interview.

Like Pizzagate, the Storm conspiracy features secret cabals, a child sex-trafficking ring led (in part) by the satanic Democratic Party, and of course, countless logical leaps and paranoid assumptions that fail to hold up under the slightest fact-based scrutiny. However, unlike Pizzagate, the Storm isn’t focused on a single block of shops in D.C., or John Podesta’s emails. It’s much, much bigger than that.

2017 December 19, Paris Martineau, “The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse”, in New York, archived from the original on 2018-12-26:

In an online universe where conspiracy theories not only sprout like kudzu but attract bigger audiences the more outrageous and strange they grow, it was probably inevitable that an uber-theory like “The Storm” would become an overnight sensation.

2018 January 17, David Neiwert, “Conspiracy meta-theory 'The Storm' pushes the 'alternative' envelope yet again”, in Southern Poverty Law Center:

There are many extreme political conspiracy theories, with varying degrees of plausibility, things like “Pizzagate,” “The Storm,” “QAnon,” and “Russiagate.”

2018, West Mick, Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect:

QAnon, whose supporters also call it “The Storm” or “Great Awakening,” is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory that burst into greater visibility this summer, after supporters at a Trump rally wearing Q shirts prompted a rush of national media coverage about it.

2018 September 12, Abby Ohlheiser, “Reddit bans r/greatawakening, the main subreddit for QAnon conspiracy theorists”, in The Washington Post:

conspiracy theory
conspiracy theory#English


Shrillary

Blend of shrill + Hillary, likely to invoke the connotation of being loud, overbearing, and irrational that the word shrill may have when applied to women.

Given recent reporting on Shrillary’s alleged anti-Semitic comments a couple of decades ago, it’s quite notable that a Jew can be on the national ticket.

2000 August 9, James Young, “The ‘conscience’ of the Senate”, in Potomac News, volume 41, number 320, Woodbridge, Va., page A6:

When Shrillary wins in November, she will appoint the most left wing loony to the Supreme Court in modern history. Shrillary will then have some flunky sue some city government over a gun ordinance and that case will go to the Supreme Court.

2016 April 12, Rick Lamming, “Letters to the Editor: No Rights from Constitution”, in Belleville News-Democrat, volume 159, number 103, Belleville, Ill., page 2C:

“I’m not a Republican,” the driver says. “But I’m not a Democrat, either, that’s for sure. You wouldn’t never catch me voting for Shrillary.” He shudders, or mock-shudders. “If I was Bill, I’d cheat on her, too.”

2018, Curtis Sittenfeld, “Gender Studies”, in You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories, New York, NY: Random House, →ISBN, page 4:


Bushinator

Therefore, I’ve developed my own Presidential Candidate Rating System. The PCRS is based on the four candidates – Bigoted Buchanan, the Bushinator, Garish Gore and Nincompoop Nader – ranking them on an uncurved 100 point scale, based on the Florida Public School Grading Scale.

2000 September 17, Ronald Hsu, “Bush is best – or at least, lesser of 4 evils”, in Florida Today, volume 39, number 181, Melbourne, FL: Cape Publications Inc., →ISSN, The Verge, page 12D:

And this is why we should all be preparing to move to some oil free European, Asian or African nation. Let’s face it living in Fort McMurray can’t be safe with the Bushinator back in office for another four years.

2004 November 6, Jennifer Mills, “Election results depression”, in Fort McMurray Today, volume 8, number 44, Fort McMurray, Alta., page 6:

Maybe Labour will promise to have Howard tried for war crimes, but I think the US would invade us if that happened. It would nt^([sic]) do for the Bushinator's mates to get shipped off to the^([sic]) Hague.

2006 April 23, Roger, “Re: About all this ANZAC day stuff”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

(US politics, often derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).


trust, but verify

Calque of Russian доверя́й, но проверя́й (doverjáj, no proverjáj). Often attributed to Vladimir Lenin, although no written evidence exists. Popularized in English by Ronald Reagan in the context of nuclear disarmament.

calque

доверя́й, но проверя́й

Before affixing his signature, Reagan also told the Soviet leader — and reassured congressional conservatives worried about Kremlin compliance — that he would follow the Russian adage to "trust, but verify."

1987 December 9, Thom Shanker, “Battle turns gentle with proverbs galore”, in Chicago Tribune:

If I had blindly fulfilled her first request, it would have inconvenienced many other users and wouldn't have solved the problem. Never forget this phrase - “trust, but verify.”

2013, Kelly C Bourne, Application Administrators Handbook: Installing, Updating and Troubleshooting Software, Newnes, →ISBN, page 351:

Trust but verify—plain and simple. Well, mostly just verify, as the objective record removes the vulnerability of getting cheated.

2014, David DeSteno, The Truth About Trust: How It Determines Success in Life, Love, Learning, and More, Penguin, →ISBN, page 97:

One should have general faith in the benevolent intentions of others, but ultimately one can only rely on things that have been verified.


orange-American

From orange + American, by analogy with other racial categories such as African-American or white American. Popularized in the 2010s in reference to Donald Trump's allegedly excessive use of tan makeup.

Now one of Ohio's libtard groups is using the poll results to their own ends, pointing out that [John] Boehner's push to extend the Bush tax cuts would benefit his own elitist subculture of Orange-Americans - including the kids from "The Jersey Shore."

2010 September 7, White Crime Wave, “Boner Hates Fellow Orange-Americans”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Famous orange-American Donald Trump has had a busy few months, feuding with State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, pretending to be friends with recently deceased civil rights icon Nelson Mandela, and fulminating on Twitter about how climate change isn’t real because it’s cold outside during winter.

2014 February 18, Anna Merlan, “Donald Trump's Fake Gubernatorial Campaign Will Soon Have a Fake Exploratory Committee”, in The Village Voice:

According to the Trump supporters, their main takeaways are that he's a lot like a rapper, he won't make them slaves, and they're tired of all the jokes, like one of Wilmore's questions: "Are you voting for Trump because, as an orange-American, he's the only remaining candidate of color?"

2016 March 22, Megh Wright, “Larry Wilmore Attempts to Understand a Group of Black Donald Trump Supporters”, in Vulture:

Well, I've been known to call Trump "Cheetolini" which is racist toward Orange-Americans.

2017 December 31, Teresita, “Re: Posting religious beliefs”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

(humorous, derogatory) A white American who has orange-colored skin, used primarily in reference to Donald J. Trump.


Killary

Blend of kill + Hillary, inspired by conspiracy theories that allege Hillary Clinton was responsible for murders, especially in relation to Benghazi.

Just what do LIBs see in Killary?

2007 February 17, MANFRED the heat seeking OBOE, “Re:Is War A Drug For Delusional Bush?”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-10-17:

President Obama is a foreign-born Muslim who wants to “steal everybody’s guns”; “Killary” Clinton is a murderer.

2016 November 4, anonymous author, “GOP: Can the party survive trump?”, in The Week, →ISSN, page 16:

Bringing up an old conspiracy theory, Joe accused “Killary” and her husband of eliminating threats to their political dynasty[.]

2020 December 6 [2020 July 16], Kristen Erichsen, Douglas Schrock, Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, Pierce Dignam, “Bitchifying Hillary: Trump Supporters’ Vilification of Clinton during the 2016 Presidential Election”, in Social Currents, volume 7, number 6, Southern Sociological Society, →DOI, →ISSN, page 536:

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Hillary Clinton, chiefly used by American conservatives.


Sherman necktie

en-noun

Sherman necktie (plural Sherman neckties)

/ˈʃɜːmən ˈnɛktaɪ/

From Sherman, the surname of Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891) + necktie. During the American Civil War, Sherman ordered the destruction of the rails of railways in order to obstruct the Confederate States Army.

We were compelled to go by carriage, as the railroads had been destroyed, the fat-pine cross-ties burned to heat the rails and the red-hot rails wrapped around the trees growing near the track. We used to call these iron rails "Sherman's neckties," and the solemn-looking chimneys standing guard over the former sites of once happy homes were called by the natives "Sherman's monuments."

[1917, James Morris Morgan, chapter XXVIII, in Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, page 244:

As the Democrats met in Chicago to declare the war a failure, northern soldiers 700 miles away were making "Sherman neckties" out of the last open railroad into Atlanta by heating the rails over a bonfire of ties and twisting the iron around trees.

1988, James M. McPherson, “We are Going to be Wiped Off the Earth”, in Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (The Oxford History of the United States; 6), New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN; paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2003, →ISBN, page 774:

I break camp and push down the road to the tiny town of Lithonia. It was here that [William Tecumseh] Sherman saw the first homes on the March to the Sea go up in flames as his men wrecked the railroad, twisting the iron rails into Sherman's Neckties.

1995, Jerry Ellis, chapter 11, in Marching through Georgia: My Walk with Sherman, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN; Marching through Georgia: My Walk along Sherman’s Route, paperback edition, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 74:

Sherman's army cut a swath of destruction fifty miles wide as it marched leisurely through Georgia without any meaningful Confederate resistance. The men destroyed nearly all property in their path, famously twisting railroad tracks around tree trunks—"Sherman neckties"—so they would never be usable again.

2006, Christopher J. Olsen, “Confederate Families at War in 1864–1865”, in The American Civil War: A Hands-on History, New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, →ISBN; paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, 2007, →ISBN, page 214:

Sherman, however, had grown to hate the Confederate trains running into Atlanta almost as much as the armies behind the city's earthworks. He declared, "Let the destruction be so thorough that not a rail or tie can be used again." The troops had a two-day-long Sherman necktie party.

2009, Marc [Josef] Wortman, “The First Bonfire”, in The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN, part VI (War is Cruelty, and You Cannot Refine It), page 306:

The Road to Tara Museum had a lot of Gone with the Wind and almost no Sherman, except for one twisted Sherman's necktie.

2014, Anne Sarah Rubin, “Conclusion: Rubin’s March”, in Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 232:

(US, rail transport, historical, chiefly in the plural) A segment of rail that has been heated and twisted into a loop, as a means of destroying a railway.

Confederate States Army
Fort McAllister Historic State Park
Union Army
William Tecumseh Sherman


Revenge of the Sixth

Blend of Revenge of the Sith + sixth.
From the name of the Star Wars movie Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, and a day of the month of similar sound to "Sith".

Revenge of the Fifth
Revenge of the Fifth

(Star Wars fandom slang) The Sixth of May (May 6). The third Star Wars Day, the second day after Revenge of the Fifth (May 5). Sometimes used to celebrate the Dark Side, when May 4 is used to celebrate the Jedi.

en:Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith


Revenge of the Fifth

Blend of Revenge of the Sith + fifth.
From the name of the Star Wars movie Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and a day of the month most similar sounding to "Sith".

(Star Wars fandom slang) The Fifth of May (May 5). The second Star Wars Day, the day after May the Fourth (May 4). Sometimes used to celebrate the Dark Side, when May 4 is used to celebrate the Jedi.


May the Fourth

(Star Wars fandom slang) Star Wars Day (May 4); the day fans celebrate Star Wars.


Klingonesque

en-adj

Klingonesque (comparative more Klingonesque, superlative most Klingonesque)

more Klingonesque (comparative)
most Klingonesque (superlative)


Trekfan

From Trek + fan. For the irregular plural, compare trufan.

(dated, fandom slang) Synonym of Trekkie


Trekdom

She is so involved in Trekdom that she can pick up the phone just once and contact I don't how many meticulously organized Star Trek fandoms.

1983, Theodore Sturgeon, "Introduction", in Sonni Cooper, Black Fire, unnumbered page

As is well known in Trekdom, the early Klingons were a thinly veiled metaphor for the Soviet Union.

2009, Yonassan Gershom, Jewish Themes in Star Trek, page 100:

She was cataloguing my collection of Trek zines because it contained items she hadn't heard of elsewhere, a real treasure trove of Trekdom.

2013, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, “Recollections of a Collating Party”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 92:

(fandom slang) The fandom of the Star Trek science-fiction franchise.


Trekfandom

I learned to write through fanzines, and have made many wonderful friends through Trekfandom.

1990, Jean Lorrah, Metamorphosis, unnumbered page:

(A celebrated point of dispute in Trekfandom is James Kirk's continual violation of the 'prime directive' not to interfere in the internal affairs of other planets, seen as an expression of colonialist attitudes in the U.S. in the late 60s.)

1994, Anne Cranny-Francis, Popular Culture, page 67:

Opinions among fans may differ but I personally think most of Trekfandom is united in their dissatisfaction with the show.

1996 September 3, heds...@utk.edu, “Re: why is everybody blasting this show????”, in alt.tv.star-trek.voyager (Usenet):


Trekzine

The aloofness and emotional control of Vulcans has driven many of Star Trek's female viewers crazy, for the almost-stated first principle of the Vulcan Love Story of the Trekzines is to break into the inner emotional nature of the outwardly calm Vulcan.

1975, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, Joan Winston, Star Trek Lives!, page 86:

You are the only Trekzine of your kind, and besides that, you are of consistently high quality and classy, both in format and execution.

1981, Walter Irwin, G. B. Love, editors, The Best of Trek: From the Magazine for Star Trek, page 75:

The early Trekzine publishers like Devra Langsam, editor of the aforementioned Spockanalia and later of Masiform D, used mimeo, often with astonishingly good results.

1997 October 29, Judygran, “Re: Fanfic, Writing 'n' Stuff (Re: Slash writers (long)(reply is long too!)”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(dated, fandom slang) A Star Trek fanzine.


Batfleck

Blend of Batman + Affleck, from the actor Ben Affleck.

The man under the batsuit in Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice is actor Ben Affleck, a casting decision that had been loudly critiqued as out of step with Batman's character. With reservations about “Batfleck” already resonant, Snyder's photo was an apt target for a flurry of memetic reappropriation.

2016, Ryan M. Milner, The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 55:

Chloe holds up her cell, showing me the text I'd sent of Ben Affleck in the Batman costume. “You sent us Batfleck.”

2018, Elyssa Patrick, With Me Boxed Set Books 1 - 4, page 1711:

Sure, in the early 1960s, Superman was lean and toned, but at that time he lacked the hyperbolic, indeed, comic musculature that came to mark so many other entries into the superhero genre. (Yes, I'm talking about you, Batfleck.)

2019, Douglas E. Cowan, Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 11:

(fandom slang) A nickname for the version of Batman interpreted by Ben Affleck, which debuted in the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) from the DC Extended Universe.


J/Cer

They are both in a script-like style I am a committed J/Cer, so I do include romantic developments.

1996 September 19, CWilson980, “Voy Alternate Basics J/C pt 1”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

The story I'm referring to was identified as a vignette and it was very sad, well at least it was sad for a J/Cer such as I.

1998 April 12, Di, “Help finding a Story”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

A lovely 'what if' that all ardent J/Cers would love to see.

2001 March 23, Kattz, “VOY Feedback Vote #3 by CyberMum”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

A fan who ships the Star Trek characters Kathryn Janeway and Chakotay.


J/C

Initialism from the names Janeway and Chakotay.

(Had I missed "Elogium" I would have oh-so-little material for the J/C crusade!)

1995 December 1, schlock, “STARDIARY #6: MAYBE IT'S TIME TREKKERS WENT *ON STRIKE*.”, in alt.startrek (Usenet):

I am thinking of starting an all-ages list for J/C fans […]

1998 October 6, MsSpooky83, “OT-J/C mailing list?”, in alt.startrek (Usenet):

Christine says this is possibly her last J/C fic, but I seriously hope it's not as her 'voice' in VOY fic is truly memorable.

2013 March 29, ASC Awards, “ASC Awards Comment Digest #246 Janeway/Chakotay”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kathryn Janeway and Chakotay from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.


J/C

Initialism from the names Jaime and Cersei.

(fandom slang) The canonical incestuous ship of the fictional twins Jaime Lannister and Cersei Lannister from the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.


Trekkish

Trekkish (comparative more Trekkish, superlative most Trekkish)

more Trekkish (comparative)
most Trekkish (superlative)


Jebya

Jebya caves to his ultra-rightwing do-gooders without a clue yet fails to meet the needs of the vulnerable children of his state.

2003 October 22, Tom Jefferson, “GOP supports right to live without hope, but fights healthcare for those who can use it.”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

Obviously the religious nuts have already decided that Dubya's God anointed one. They were screaming for Dubya and Jebya to throw out the rule of law and use their divinely ordained power to raise Terri Schiavo from the dead.

2005 April 4, Pete, “Re: Bush fooled by Hussein”, in soc.politics (Usenet):

Bush would've told Murkins they were traitors for not wanting his bailouts, CEO Bonuses, Wars, Cheney and Jebya's conflicts of interests and exposing spies who refused to lie for Chimpy.

2010 January 12, Palin On Beaver News, “Nobody Voted For it. Nobody Wants it. He campaigned AGAINST it.”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

(US politics, often derogatory) Jeb Bush (born 1953), the 43rd governor of Florida (1999–2007) and brother of former US president George W. Bush.


Trump derangement syndrome

en-noun

Trump derangement syndrome (uncountable)

"Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia," he tweeted. "They would rather go to war than see this. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome!"

2018 July 20, Chris Cillizza, quoting Donald Trump, “What is 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' -- and do you have it?”, in CNN Politics:

Like many others, I have for some time been trying to understand Trump Derangement Syndrome, the phenomenon of otherwise reasonable people reacting irrationally to some peculiar quality of the president, a quality especially in evidence when he is in the presence of his supporters.

2019 July 24, Conrad Black, “Trump Derangement Syndrome and Presidential Egocentricity”, in National Review:

Letter writers who criticize the president have long been responding dismissively to claims they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome […] and the May 6 example drew particularly pointed replies.

2020 May 9, Paul Thornton, “Opinion: Who really has 'Trump Derangement Syndrome'? Not his critics, readers say”, in The Los Angeles Times:

Some people have never gotten over it. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. There is no vaccine and no booster for it.

2023 January 13, Kellyanne Conway, “The Cases for and Against Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(colloquial, derogatory) Irrationally negative reactions to the actions and policies of US President Donald Trump.

If you can view it and not be appalled by his conduct, embarrassed by his neediness, concerned for his health, and worried about our nation under his care, I’m going to suggest that you’re enabling his neurosis and indulging his narcissism to the point of endangering all of us. If Trump Derangement Syndrome is a thing at all, it’s something Donald Trump is hopelessly afflicted with. If you’re still defending him, you’re not helping him—or America.

John, Pavlovitz (2019 June 17) “Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real. Trump and His Supporters Have It.”, in JohnPavlovitz.com, archived from the original on 2022-05-20

“This is what Trump Derangement Syndrome really is,” Maher explained. “Pretending that all of this is perfectly acceptable behavior for an American president.”

Yee, Lawrence (2019 September 20) “Bill Maher Offers New Definition of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’”, in TheWrap, archived from the original on 2022-04-22

Trump Derangement Syndrome really describes the Republicans who just three years ago would deny they’d ever support the behavior and decisions they defend today.

Mills, Thomas (2019 October 14) “The real Trump Derangement Syndrome”, in PoliticsNC.com, archived from the original on 2020-11-25

Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Its major symptom is blind trust and willingness to shill for a President who calls The Emoluments Clause (Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 8 of the US Constitution) “phony” among other 11,000-plus documented untruths President Trump has uttered and tweeted since he was inaugurated.

Mandaville, Lynn, Young, David (2019) “One Small Voice: It’s GOP that has Trump Derangement Syndrome”, in TownBroadcast.com, archived from the original on 2022-06-22

2020 April 26, Trump Derangement Syndrome Works Both Ways, TimeForTruth.org
I’ve recently diagnosed, much to the chagrin of Trump supporters, that Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) works both ways. It’s not just a mental malady afflicting liberals and Democrats, but one that also afflicts, unbeknownst them, conservatives and Republicans. In both cases, it strips those suffering from it of their objectivity and obscures reality, which opens them up to unprecedented end-time deception.

Recent days have raised an arresting possibility: Trump himself appears to be suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a satirical phrase. But there is a nonhumorous reality that Trump’s fraught brand of politics coaxes many people to the psychological edge.

Harris, John (2020 October 15) “Trump Is Suffering From Trump Derangement Syndrome”, in Politico, archived from the original on 2022-08-21

2020 December 16, John Avalon, "Trump derangement syndrome" has taken on a new twist, CNN
The term "Trump derangement syndrome has taken on a new twist, because those who might really be afflicted now are folks who simply can't accept the fact he lost the election. Patient zero is, of course, Trump himself, as a steady stream of unhinged tweets attest. But this is contagious, folks.

In a “Reality Check” segment on the network’s New Day morning show Wednesday, CNN’s John Avlon talked about “Trump derangement syndrome,” which he described as a “political diagnosis” of people who “simply can’t accept the fact that he lost the election.”

Joyella, Mark (2020 December 16) “CNN's John Avlon: Trump Supporters 'Can't Accept The Fact He Lost'”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2022-06-16

What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’? It’s a condition that afflicts conservatives and liberals alike – and lawyers in particular. This week, Ken White and special guest David Lat discuss the attorneys that, uh, have gone astray defending Donald Trump.

Barro, Josh, White, Ken (2021 October 6) “Trump Derangement Syndrome with David Lat”, in KCRW.com, archived from the original on 2021-11-24

(colloquial, derogatory) Irrationally rabid support for former US President Donald Trump.


wiggins

Alteration of wiggings, from wig (“to be nervous or fearful”). First recorded use in 1997, in the first episode of the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Compare also wigging out.

We could meet someplace quieter. Louder. Uh, that place just kind of gives me the wiggins.

1997 March 10, “Welcome to the Hellmouth”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar):

Living in Rush's world never failed to give me the wiggins, but this time I barely noticed.

2014, Ian Thomas Healy, Scott Bachmann, Frank Byrns, The Good Fight:

(slang) The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety.


Red Star

A depiction of a red star, often used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.