"Republicrat" meaning in English

See Republicrat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Republicrats [plural]
Etymology: Blend of Republican + Democrat Etymology templates: {{blend|en|Republican|Democrat}} Blend of Republican + Democrat Head templates: {{en-noun}} Republicrat (plural Republicrats)
  1. (US politics, derogatory) A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party. Tags: US, derogatory Categories (topical): US politics
    Sense id: en-Republicrat-en-noun-RBys3n5e Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English blends: 84 16 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 61 39 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 63 37 Topics: government, politics
  2. (US politics, derogatory, attributive) The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties. Tags: US, attributive, derogatory Categories (topical): US politics
    Sense id: en-Republicrat-en-noun-6NJtCiSR Topics: government, politics

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Republican",
        "3": "Democrat"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of Republican + Democrat",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of Republican + Democrat",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Republicrats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Republicrat (plural Republicrats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "US politics",
          "orig": "en:US politics",
          "parents": [
            "Politics",
            "United States",
            "Society",
            "North America",
            "All topics",
            "America",
            "Fundamental",
            "Earth",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 39",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, Allan P. Sindler, Political Parties in the United States, page 70:",
          "text": "This hybrid voting behavior may be called \"Republicrat\", and obviously it must depress Republicanism in Southern congressional, state, and local politics.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party."
      ],
      "id": "en-Republicrat-en-noun-RBys3n5e",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States"
        ],
        [
          "politician",
          "politician"
        ],
        [
          "Democrat",
          "Democrat"
        ],
        [
          "Republican",
          "Republican"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US politics, derogatory) A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "US politics",
          "orig": "en:US politics",
          "parents": [
            "Politics",
            "United States",
            "Society",
            "North America",
            "All topics",
            "America",
            "Fundamental",
            "Earth",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Daniel Sinker, We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet : the Collected Interviews, page 290:",
          "text": "We need to make people understand that decisions being made on local levels are often far more influential in our lives and probably the only real way — unless we're able to radically change the way our one-party Republicrat system works — to make change.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States, page 567:",
          "text": "Both wings of the ruling \"Republicrat\" Party try to outdo themselves in announcing new, ever more draconian measures to restrict, repress, restrain, and eliminate the poor.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Holliston Perni, A Heritage of Hypocrisy: Why 'They' Hate Us, page 4:",
          "text": "Rather, we have a single Republicrat party of greedy, self-serving, amoral, power-driven professional politicians...",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties."
      ],
      "id": "en-Republicrat-en-noun-6NJtCiSR",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "two-party system",
          "two-party system"
        ],
        [
          "third parties",
          "third party"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US politics, derogatory, attributive) The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "attributive",
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Republicrat"
  ],
  "word": "Republicrat"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English blends",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Republican",
        "3": "Democrat"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of Republican + Democrat",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of Republican + Democrat",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Republicrats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Republicrat (plural Republicrats)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:US politics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, Allan P. Sindler, Political Parties in the United States, page 70:",
          "text": "This hybrid voting behavior may be called \"Republicrat\", and obviously it must depress Republicanism in Southern congressional, state, and local politics.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States"
        ],
        [
          "politician",
          "politician"
        ],
        [
          "Democrat",
          "Democrat"
        ],
        [
          "Republican",
          "Republican"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US politics, derogatory) A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:US politics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Daniel Sinker, We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet : the Collected Interviews, page 290:",
          "text": "We need to make people understand that decisions being made on local levels are often far more influential in our lives and probably the only real way — unless we're able to radically change the way our one-party Republicrat system works — to make change.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States, page 567:",
          "text": "Both wings of the ruling \"Republicrat\" Party try to outdo themselves in announcing new, ever more draconian measures to restrict, repress, restrain, and eliminate the poor.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Holliston Perni, A Heritage of Hypocrisy: Why 'They' Hate Us, page 4:",
          "text": "Rather, we have a single Republicrat party of greedy, self-serving, amoral, power-driven professional politicians...",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "two-party system",
          "two-party system"
        ],
        [
          "third parties",
          "third party"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US politics, derogatory, attributive) The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "attributive",
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Republicrat"
  ],
  "word": "Republicrat"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Republicrat meaning in English (3.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.