mi-parti

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Learned borrowing from French mi-parti (literally “divided down the middle”), from Middle French mi-parti, from Old French miparti, past participle of mipartir (“to split in half”), from mi (“middle”) + partir (“to split”); compare medial and party (“divided”). Though the term is mentioned beginning in the 17th century, actual use is apparently only recorded from the 19th century onwards.

lbor

They are all parted per pale, or (to vſe Scohier's word, mi-partie, that is, parted longwiſe in the midſt, or perpendicularly parted, but yet ſeuerally affected in the partings […]

[1610, Edmund Bolton, Edm: Bolton his Elements of Armories, London: George Eld, page 95:

The extreme uncertainty of engraving the horizontal line of division in shields makes it quite reasonable to suppose the division which we see in Panwitz to have been made to look mi-parti in error.

1871 April 15, D. P., “New German flag”, in Notes and Queries, volume 7, number 172, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, page 323:

Almost all the indoor servants were given three ells of coloured shortcloth, together with three ells of striped cloth for their suits, which must have been, therefore, mi-parti.

1980, Stella Mary Newton, “VIII: Livery and the Dress of the Poor”, in Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 67:

(heraldry, clothing, chiefly historical) Vertically divided into distinctly-coloured or patterned halves; party per pale.


interview under caution

en-noun

interview under caution (plural interviews under caution)

From the mandatory caution given by the police to the suspect at the beginning of such interviews: “You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”.

(criminal law, law enforcement, England and Wales, formal) A formal interview of a suspect by the police as part of a criminal investigation, for which the suspect is entitled to legal representation. Used to determine whether or not to prosecute the suspect, and most commonly conducted following arrest, though sometimes in other circumstances.


camouflage net

We have seen details of the types of work for which volunteers are sought, and these range from the manufacture of camouflage nets, on piece work in the Central London area, enabling approximately 6s. a shift of 4 hours to be earned, [...].

1943 March and April, “Spare Time War Work Scheme”, in Railway Magazine, page 65:

(military) Netting used to hide potential targets on the ground.


CPAC

The White House said earlier Saturday in a statement that it was aware of an individual testing positive for coronavirus after attending the CPAC conference.

2020 March 7, Greg Clary and Raymond Arke, “CPAC attendee tested positive for coronavirus”, in CNN:

Trump was speaking at the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a rightwing convention that was founded in the US in the early 70s and now calls itself the world’s “most influential gathering of conservatives”.

2024 December 10, Tom Phillips, Facundo Iglesia, “Maga on the River Plate as global populist right descends on Argentina”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

w:Conservative Political Action Conference

(US politics) Acronym of Conservative Political Action Conference.


counternaiant

(heraldry, of fish) Depicted swimming in opposite horizontal directions.


counterparry

(fencing) A parry that uses the energy of the opponent's incoming lunge.


counterparry

en-verb

counterparry (third-person singular simple present counterparries, present participle counterparrying, simple past and past participle counterparried)

counterparries (present singular third-person)
counterparrying (participle present)
counterparried (participle past)
counterparried (past)

(fencing) To parry using the energy of the opponent's incoming lunge.


counterrestoration

the struggle between restoration and counterrestoration in the course of the founding of the Ch'in dynasty


high yo-yo

When you have the airspeed advantage, you can execute a high yo-yo for increased maneuverability in a turn fight while conserving your energy. Now who's laughing?

2021 March 19, Bosnian Ape Society, 5:13 from the start, in Is Your Car Safe From Supermaneuverable Air-Defense Fighter Aircraft?, archived from the original on 2022-08-07:

(aviation, military) A dogfighting maneuver used by a rapidly-closing attacker to avoid an overshoot during a turn, involving pulling up into a climb to exchange airspeed for altitude and allow the attacker to make a slower, tighter turn and drop back down behind the defender.


low yo-yo

(aviation, military) A dogfighting maneuver used to increase the closure rate of the attacker during a turn, involving the attacker temporarily giving up some altitude to simultaneously increase airspeed and allow them to turn more steeply, enabling the attacker to cut across the defender's turn and catch up with the defender.


sell dearly

sell dearly (third-person singular simple present sells dearly, present participle selling dearly, simple past and past participle sold dearly)

sells dearly (present singular third-person)
selling dearly (participle present)
sold dearly (participle past)
sold dearly (past)

Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.

2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:24 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04:

(idiomatic, especially military, of a fighting person, unit, or vehicle) To make one's opponent pay a very high price to defeat or obtain (a person, unit, vehicle, or territory).


political commissar

en-noun

political commissar (plural political commissars)

(communism, military) A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization.


airgroup

(military) A unit or formation consisting of a number of air force squadrons.

The USS Manila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3, services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 28:07 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

(military) The set of aircraft flying from a particular aircraft carrier.


roof knocking

(military) The practice of dropping a nonexplosive or low-yield device on a target around 10 to 15 minutes before a bombing in order to caution any civilians present to flee, so as to minimize civilian casualties.


CTSFO

(UK, law enforcement) Abbreviation of counter-terrorist specialist firearms officer.


Orange Man bad

Intentionally used without a verb, playing into the trope that barbaric or primitive people omit copulas such as is.

CNN BREAKING NOW: ORANGE MAN BAD Is this supposed to be a news site? This looks more like parody news that is not to be taken seriously. Obviously this is the first place you go to when you install the Dissenter app lol CNN IS FAKE NEWS[…]

2019 May 4, Scott Barry, 609 Pages of Horse Shit, Lulu.com, →ISBN:

Orange Man bad. Orange Man wanted to drain the swamp and create some balance again. Orange Man was also a complete stand for the sovereignty and independence of America. He was an advocate for all peoples living great lives.

2021 July 20, Mike Shereck, Manhood Manifesto: How Men Must Lead at Home, at Work, and in the Public Sphere, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Because, because, because Orange Man Bad: ThinkProgress continues, “...even worse, the climate policy agenda President Donald Trump is pushing — actions that include rolling back U.S. laws that reduce carbon pollution and abandoning the[…]

2022 June 8, Matt Teahan, We Are America, We Are Americans (HB), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 438:

(Internet slang, US politics, sarcastic) A statement used to mock opposers of the American politician Donald Trump, implying that they only oppose him because it is either popular to do so, or have no idea what their own political stances really are.


Torydom

(UK politics) The realm or sphere of the Tories.


vent-piece

(firearms) In a breechloading firearm, a vertical sliding block with a conical plug on its front surface to seal the firing chamber and close the breech.


verbenarius

/ˌvɜː.bɪˈnɛəɹi.əs/

(Ancient Rome, politics, religion, historical) A fetial with the ceremonial function of carrying sacred vervain.


rifle grenade

(military) A grenade (small explosive device) designed to be launched from the muzzle of an infantry soldier's rifle, using a rifle cartridge (usually a specially-designed blank cartridge, but occasionally a normal ball round) for propulsion.


demarcation line

demarcation line (plural demarcation lines)

(politics, military) A geopolitical border, often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire.


leftneck

“I know you figure me for a leftneck fool, correct?”

(rare, slang, US, politics) A redneck who is on the political left.


forward assist

(firearms) A button on certain rifles that pushes the bolt carrier forward, ensuring that the bolt is locked.


PHASR

From the fictional Star Trek weapon technology, the phaser.

(weaponry) Acronym of personnel halting and stimulation response, a non-lethal laser weapon technology that causes temporary blindness.


turret farm

(military, nautical, informal) A battleship with an unusually-large number of main-battery turrets (generally five or more).

Turning to get a better bead on Princess Royal, the Prinzregent Luitpold catches a full salvo from HMS Agincourts massive turret farm' and vanishes in a roar of water and flame. Nothing is left once the smoke has cleared.

2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:07 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-24:

[…] and back in World War I, obviously, you had a lot of ships that either had amidships turrets, like the Iron Dukes, or ships that had big turret farms on the back, like Agincourt or the Wyomings, and, at that point, getting those aft guns around is obviously significantly more important than a single triple or something like that is in World War II[…]

2020 October 18, Drachinifel, 1:04:14 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 116, archived from the original on 2022-09-29:

The main battery carried by such a battleship, or the major portion thereof.


POCC

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of police operations command centre.


PoCC

prisoners of conscience
prisoner of conscience#English

(law, politics, law enforcement, incarceration) Abbreviation of prisoners of conscience committee.

(politics) Abbreviation of people of color caucus.


en-proverb

Originated with the Black Panther Party.
One of the variations of the proverb formula scratch (somebody) and you'll find a (somebody else). Compare for example поскреби русского - найдёшь татарина (poskrebi russkovo - najdjóšʹ tatarina, “scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tatar”).

scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds (alternative)

Scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist, they say - this book does just that, not only with the author but with the Rt. Hon. Joe Grimond M.P. who provided the introduction to the book.

1982, Stuart Christie, “Left, Right: The March of Political Extremism in Britain, by John Tomlison published by John Calder at £4.95 [Book Review]”, in Anarchist Review, number 6, Cienfuegos Press, page 42 of 42-43:

I have a friend in the poverty movement named Larry Carter Center. He always had this saying, "scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist." I believe he's got a valid point.
The limousine liberals who *are* in a position for lending a hand-up to those struggling with deep poverty are precisely the ones who chop us off at the knees.

2009 August 23, Jacqueline S. Homan, Barbara's Blog: Barbara Ehrenreich Comments on Working in America, archived from the original on 2010-04-08:

(politics, derogatory) People who identify as liberals (usually rather than leftists) are not uncomfortable with fascist beliefs.


torpedo cruiser

en-noun

torpedo cruiser (plural torpedo cruisers)

(military, nautical, chiefly historical) A large warship using torpedoes (the self-propelled naval weapons) as its primary armament.


torpedo ram

torpedo rams (plural)
torpedo-ram (alternative)

When his eyes were clear again, he saw the monster had passed and was rushing landward. Big iron upper-works rose out of this headlong structure, and from that twin funnels projected, and spat a smoking blast shot with fire into the air. It was the torpedo-ram, Thunder Child, steaming headlong, coming to the rescue of the threatened shipping.

1898, H.G. Wells, “The "Thunder Child."”, in The War of the Worlds, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, retrieved 2022-11-24, page 175:

(military, nautical, historical) A warship designed to sink enemy vessels using a combination of torpedo (self-propelled naval weapon) fire and ramming.


NYAG

Among the issues the NYAG is examining is whether WeWork’s founder and former chief executive, Adam Neumann, indulged in self-dealing to enrich himself.

2019 November 19, “WeWork: New York attorney general investigating founder's possible self-dealing”, in The Guardian:

attorney general
attorney general#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of New York State attorney general.


ROCS

Republic Of China
Republic of China#English

(military, nautical) Initialism of Republic Of China Ship, a warship of Taiwan, or pre-Chinese Civil War (1950) republican China (used as a ship prefix).


whipcraft

(politics) The art or skill of a political whip, who enforces the party's policies in votes.


in country

I was in country for four very nervous days before being issued a rifle and basic gear - no ammunition yet though.

1992, Michael R. Conroy, Don't Tell America!:

(military, US) In combat in a foreign country, especially in Vietnam during the Vietnam War


HIJMS

(military, nautical) Initialism of His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Ship, an Imperial Japanese Navy ship; an informal ship prefix used for a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, usually in reference to the period from the Meiji Revolution to the Washington Naval Treaty.


HIGMS

(military, nautical) Initialism of His Imperial German Majesty's Ship. A ship prefix for a ship of the Imperial German Navy (usually for prior to the dreadnought era, prior to the buildup to WWI)


HIRMS

(military, nautical) Initialism of His Imperial Russian Majesty's Ship. A ship prefix for ships of the Imperial Russian Navy


FNS

(nautical, military, exonym) Initialism of French Naval Ship, a ship prefix for ships of the navy of the Third Republic of France.


supercruiser

supercruisers (plural)
super-cruiser (alternative)
super cruiser (alternative)

(military, nautical, obsolete) Synonym of battlecruiser.


elephant walk

From elephant + walk. Coined in the United States Air Force during World War 2, in reference to the appearance of large numbers of taxiing heavy bombers.

(US, military aviation) The taxiing of multiple aircraft in close formation before a mass take-off.


heavy bomber

(military aviation) A large, long-range bomber, capable of carrying a heavy payload.


Schnellbomber

/ˈʃnɛlˌbɑmɚ/

Unadapted borrowing from German Schnellbomber, from schnell (“fast”) + Bomber (“bomber”).

ubor

(military aviation, historical) A type of German World War 2 bomber designed to outrun fighters as part of its defensive capability.


Jibby

2020, Gempak.comhttps://gempak.com/rojakdaily/news/cluster-jibby-netizens-lament-lack-social-distancing-najib-razaks-court-hearing-55202

Some netizens are even calling the scene as "Cluster Jibby", or "Cluster Najib", and are fearing for the worse (read: MCO 2.0).

(Malaysia, politics, Internet slang, humorous, derogatory) Najib Razak, former prime minister of Malaysia.


Tsedenbalism

Borrowed from Mongolian цэдэнбализм (cedenbalizm). By surface analysis, Tsedenbal + -ism.

bor+

(communism, historical) The communist ideology espoused by former Mongolian leader Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal.


Scotophilic

scoto- (alternative)
Scotto- (alternative)

(uncountable, politics) That loves the Scots or Scotland.


From J6 (“January 6 [United States Capitol attack]”) + -er.

suf

January 6 􂀿United States Capitol attack􂁀

Judges going easy on J6ers on grounds that a little bit goes a long way evidently haven't read a word of history: light sentences for fascists are a gift to them, easy time that to their followers equals instant martyrdom, readymade (read: faux) "authenticity."

2021 August 24, JeffSharlet, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-06:

Former president Trump called all the J6ers to DC promising it’d be wild.

2022 January 20, Kevin Robbins, “Jan. 6 and BLM not the same”, in The Post-Star, volume 118, number 62, Glens Falls, NY, page A4:

A third fundraising site, the Patriot Freedom Project, lists Rehl as one of 34 detained “J6ers.” The site is “dedicated to bringing awareness to the plight of those being politically persecuted and supporting their families and friends,” it says.

2022 March 30, Laura Italiano, “How lagging prosecutions and long jail stays are fanning the flames of Jan. 6 extremism”, in Business Insider:

I pled guilty to a misdemeanor. And when you Google my name, and you look at this dossier that the government has compiled against me and every other J6er.

2023 January 19, Tucker Carlson Tonight, spoken by Brandon Straka, via Fox News:

Many of the J6ers had never been incarcerated before, and jail came as a shock. The difference, though, between them and the average person in the D.C. jail, or any American jail, is that they were going through hell together.

2024 September 16, Hanna Rosin, “The Insurrectionists Next Door”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

(US politics, neologism) A participant in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.


construction battalion

en-noun

construction battalion (plural construction battalions)

(military) A military battalion formally designated to engage in the construction of structures for military use.


bomb ship

(military, nautical, historical) A ship armed with high-angle mortars firing explosive or carcass shells, and specialized for shore bombardment.


ammunition bread

ammunition bread (plural ammunition breads)

(military) Bread which is prepared or used for the supply of armies and garrisons.


MAGAism

After his loss, Trump spoke of forming a “Patriot Party” that would compete with the GOP to fly the banner of true MAGAism. Such a third party, based on populist rhetoric and grievance, would be a twenty-first-century version of[…]

2021 June 22, Mike Rothschild, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, Melville House, →ISBN, page 238:

However, the series also finds Roseanne's performative MAGAism equally humorous. Principle, whichever side of the political aisle it hails from, is set up for mockery in this reboot, and the butt of Roseanne's jokes is no longer systems[…]

2022 April 12, Karen McNally, American Television during a Television Presidency, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:


bounce rubble

en-verb

bounce rubble (third-person singular simple present bounces rubble, present participle bouncing rubble, simple past and past participle bounced rubble)

bounces rubble (present singular third-person)
bouncing rubble (participle present)
bounced rubble (participle past)
bounced rubble (past)
bounce the rubble (alternative)

(military, informal) To bomb a target that has already been severely bombed, so that little further damage is possible.


OSTP

Along with eating electricity, the OSTP concluded that cryptocurrency operations affect noise levels, disrupt the environment and create electronic waste that "can exacerbate environmental justice issues for neighboring communities, which are often already burdened with other pollutants, heat, traffic, or noise."

2022 September 9, Brandon Vigliarolo, “US warns cryptomining must cut power use over carbon goals”, in The Register:

w:Office of Science and Technology Policy

(US politics) Initialism of Office of Science and Technology Policy.


pseudoconservative

en-adj

pseudoconservative (comparative more pseudoconservative, superlative most pseudoconservative)

more pseudoconservative (comparative)
most pseudoconservative (superlative)

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(politics) Apparently, but not actually, conservative.


pseudoliberal

pseudoliberal (comparative more pseudoliberal, superlative most pseudoliberal)

more pseudoliberal (comparative)
most pseudoliberal (superlative)

/ˈsuːdəʊˌlɪbəɹəl/

/ˈsuːdəʊˌlɪbɹəl/

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(politics) Apparently, but not actually, liberal.


Official Monster Raving Loony Party

the Official Monster Raving Loony Party (canonical)

(UK politics) An intentionally bizarre political party established in the United Kingdom in 1983.


FJB

[…] an impromptu remark by a NASCAR trackside reporter at the Talladega Super Speedway […] attempted to awkwardly substitute the rambunctious “FJB” acronym with something entirely more benign: “Let’s Go Brandon!” in recognition of the winning driver, Brandon Brown.

2021 October 18, Mike Bibb, “Editorial: Is it ‘FJB’ or ‘let’s go, Brandon?’”, in The Gila Herald:

President Biden received an ugly welcome in the Land of 10,000 Lakes on Tuesday when his motorcade passed dozens of protesters who held vulgar signs dissing the commander-in-chief. […] One sign said “FJB” in an apparent abbreviation of “F–k Joe Biden.”

2021 November 30, Steven Nelson, “Biden haters greet president in Minnesota with ‘FJB’ and ‘You Suck’ signs”, in New York Post:

Kirk's controversial tag has the acronyms "LGB" for 'Let's Go Brandon' and "FJB," an explicit statement geared toward President Joe Biden […]

2022 March 16, “Alabama man allowed to keep controversial license plate”, in WVTM 13:

The antipathy toward Biden - I won't say it's the same as it was toward Clinton, but it's definitely present. The chants of 'FJB' are louder than they've ever been.

2024 April 20, Toluse Olorunnipa, quoting David Urban, “In Pa., Biden’s challenge is highlighted by protests from both sides”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2024-04-20:

(US politics, derogatory, slang, vulgar) Initialism of fuck Joe Biden.


FJB

(US politics, derogatory, slang, vulgar) Joe Biden.


Andrew Miller

Sometimes said to originate from the name of an 18th-century Lieutenant named Andrew Millar, famed for impressing many people into naval service; however, there is no evidence such a person existed.

He wont do for Andrew Millar, for he's mair like unto a cuckoo clock-maker than a Jack tar.

1826, Matthew Henry Barker, Greenwich hospital, page 2:

Since those days I have met scores of men who have deserted from Her Majesty's Army and Navy, and every one of them, without exception, curses the day he left the service, or, as the seamen term it, ‘Andrew Miller’.

1906, W. H. Blake, The Adventures of a Naval Chief Gunner, page 5:

I'm not a flight sergeant, we don't have 'em in the Andrew Miller.

1984, Kenneth Poolman, Chanter R.N., page 151:

(chiefly UK, naval slang) The Royal Navy; service in the Navy.


Andrew Miller

Andrew Millers (plural)
Andrew Millar (alternative)

And what did you know, you bumpkin! before you came on board this Andrew Miller?

1850, Herman Melville, chapter IV, in White-Jacket, published 1850, page 24:

(chiefly UK, naval slang, obsolete) A warship.


motor torpedo boat

en-noun

motor torpedo boat (plural motor torpedo boats)

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

(military, nautical) A torpedo boat powered by an internal combustion engine rather than a steam engine.


large light cruiser

large light cruiser (plural large light cruisers)

From Admiral John Fisher's use of subterfuge to evade a Royal Navy moratorium on the construction of new capital ships by declaring ships of this type to be large versions of light cruisers.

(military, nautical, historical) A very large, fast warship with a relatively-shallow draft and minimal belt armor, carrying a relatively-small number of very heavy guns; sometimes classed as a type of battlecruiser.

Courageous-class battlecruiser
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher


mule kick

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A move by which the wrestler, facing away from a charging opponent, bends down and pushes out one foot, striking the opponent with the sole.


woordie major

woordie majors (plural)
wurdee major (alternative)

Uncertain. Yule states: "Both the rationale of the compound title, and the etymology of wardī, are obscure. Platts gives Hind. wardī or urdī, 'uniform of a soldier, badge or dress of office,' as the first part of the compound, with a questionable Skt. etymology, viruda, 'crying, proclaiming, a panegyric.' But there is also Ar. wird, 'a flight of birds,' and then also 'a troop or squadron,' which is perhaps as probable. Others, again, as many military titles have come from S. India, connect it with Can. varadi, 'news, an order.'"

(India, military, obsolete) A native adjutant in regiments of Indian irregular cavalry.


armed merchantman

armed merchantman (plural armed merchantmen)

A merchant ship that has weapons aboard for fighting or potential fighting.

(military, nautical) A warship converted from a merchant ship by the installation of weaponry, primarily for use in commerce raiding or defense against same.


Lotoo

(historical, politics) The Chief Council of State in Burma, composed nominally of four chief ministers.


wage credit

(taxation, US) A compensation, received as gratuities, which has been paid for employment by an employer.


Glock switch

(firearms) A device which modifies the firing system of a Glock-pattern pistol by bypassing the semiautomatic catch, which enables fully automatic fire.


auto sear

(firearms) A device which allows for a closed-bolt self-loading firearm to reliably function in fully automatic fire by preventing the hammer or striker from falling until the bolt is fully in battery.


hard-right

en-adj

hard-right (comparative more hard-right or harder-right, superlative most hard-right or hardest-right)

more hard-right (comparative)
harder-right (comparative)
most hard-right (superlative)
hardest-right (superlative)

This month, a hard-right group founded by neo-Nazis and skinheads became the largest party in Sweden’s likely governing coalition. In France this year, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen — for a second consecutive time — reached the final round of presidential elections.

2022 September 25, Jason Horowitz, “Giorgia Meloni Wins Voting in Italy, in Breakthrough for Europe’s Hard Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


hard right

The Tory hard right is in the ascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat.

2018 July 18, Owen Jones, “The hard right can only be defeated from the left, not from the centre”, in The Guardian:


hard-left

hard-left (comparative more hard-left or harder-left, superlative most hard-left or hardest-left)

more hard-left (comparative)
harder-left (comparative)
most hard-left (superlative)
hardest-left (superlative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hard-left.


oblique order

(military) A military tactic whereby an attacking army focuses its forces to attack a single enemy flank.


en-proper noun

the National Socialist German Workers' Party

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(historical, Nazism, German politics) Far-Right political party from Germany, commonly known as the Nazi Party

en:National Socialist German Workers' Party

ḥizb al-ʕummāl al-qawmiyy al-ištirākiyy al-ʔalmāniyy

حِزْب الْعُمَّال الْقَوْمِيّ الاِشْتِرَاكِيّ الْأَلْمَانِيّ

Parti national-socialiste des travailleurs allemands

Partido Nacional-Socialista dos Trabalhadores Alemães

Nacionál-socialistíčeskaja neméckaja rabóčaja pártija

Национа́л-социалисти́ческая неме́цкая рабо́чая па́ртия

Đảng Công nhân Đức Quốc gia Xã hội chủ nghĩa


battlecarrier

The larger issue is why are you doing this? If you are going to have a battlecarrier that's acting as your combat air patrol provider, that would suggest that your own carriers either can't provide it, or, you need to load your fleet carriers with as many strike aircraft as possible to hit the enemy as hard as possible, which means you're offloading the fighter duties to another ship. Which then raises the question of why are you doing that, and the only real answer for why you would do that instead of having a dedicated battleship and a dedicated aircraft carrier or two is that you're horribly outnumbered and you're looking to eke every last margin out of your fleet. And if you're that desperate, you have much, much larger issues to address than could possibly ever be solved by a battlecarrier carrying a squadron or two of fighters.

2022 February 9, Drachinifel, 16:39 from the start, in Naval Engineering Disasters - How not to design a ship, archived from the original on 2022-09-25:

(military, nautical, historical) A hybrid between a battleship and an aircraft carrier, with both one or more heavy gun turrets and a large aircraft hangar and flight deck.


power projection

en-noun

power projection (countable and uncountable, plural power projections)

international relations
international relations

(political science, geopolitics) In international relations, the capacity of a state to deploy and sustain forces outside its territory.


commonwealthism

(politics) The condition or policy of operating as a commonwealth.


crouchant

a lion crouchant argent

[…] standing over a crouchant elephant and mounted by a human figure holding the bridle passing through its mouth. The faces of the vimana are carved with the figures of the deities of the Hindu Pantheon.

1912, Mano Mohan Ganguly, Orissa and Her Remains --: Ancient and Medieval … Introduction by … J. G. Woodroffe.), page 412:

(chiefly heraldry, uncommon) Lying down with the head erect.


central committee

central committee (plural central committees)

central committees (plural)
Central Committee (alternative)

The four-day, closed-door meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist party (CCP) central committee, known as the sixth plenum, is expected to produce a resolution on the history of the party, which analysts say will shape domestic politics and society for decades to come.

2021 November 8, Vincent Ni, Helen Davidson, “Summit of political elite opens in China as Xi eyes extraordinary third term”, in The Guardian:

(communism) A standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states.


Kamikwasi

Kamikwasi Kwarteng and Librium Liz were paralysed with terror. They had waited years for their chance to wreck the economy and now couldn’t bear to deal with the consequences.

2022 September 28, John Crace, “Labour parties like it’s 1997 as Tories descend further into chaos”, in the Guardian, retrieved 2022-09-30:

Those spending plans allied with the tax cuts sent sterling plunging to its lowest-ever value against the dollar earlier this week, as critics decried the government's "KamiKwasi" economics.

2022 September 28, “'KamiKwasi' economics: Baptism of fire for UK's new finance minister Kwarteng”, in The Straits Times, retrieved 2022-09-30:

You might have thought that the first Truss cabinet row would have been over the tax and spend implications of what has become known as the KamiKwasi budget.

2022 September 28, David Aaronovitch, “Truss is right: we need migrants to prosper - Comment”, in The Times, retrieved 2022-09-30:

(UK, politics, derogatory) Kwasi Kwarteng; used to characterise Kwarteng's term as the Chancellor of the Exchequer as reckless.


KamiKwasi

(UK, politics, derogatory) Alternative spelling of Kamikwasi.


pseudoreferendum

pseudoreferendums (plural)
pseudo-referendum (alternative)

The region of Papua remained under Dutch control after Indonesia proclaimed its independence in 1945. But it was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 after a much-criticized pseudoreferendum organized by the United Nations, despite the objections of local liberation groups.

2019 September 26, Eka Kurniawan, “Indonesia Has a Papua Problem”, in The New York Times:

“Russia’s recognition of the pseudo-referendums as ‘normal’, implementation of the so-called Crimean scenario, and yet another attempt to annex Ukrainian territory means that there is nothing to talk about,” he said in a video message.

2022 September 28, Isobel Koshiw, Andrew Roth, “Zelenskiy vows to defend Ukrainians in occupied regions as ‘referendum’ results announced”, in The Guardian:


pseudoelection

pseudoelections (plural)
pseudo-election (alternative)

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

As Wiseman notes, many observers saw Jammeh's maneuvers as a test run for the plans of Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha to legitimize his own dictatorship through a pseudoelection.

1999, “Introduction”, in Larry Jay Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, editors, Democratization in Africa, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page xxii:

(politics) A sham election; an election organized without any significant political choice or real impact on the results, often held in dictatorial regimes to feign the appearance of public legitimacy.


Trussian

en-adj

Trussian (comparative more Trussian, superlative most Trussian)

more Trussian (comparative)
most Trussian (superlative)

“It's a very Trussian style of politics, this free-market, American-inspired, pro-deregulation, libertarian style of politics,” says Sherrington, “and she has close relationships with many of these think-tanks.”

2021 January 29, Tristan Kennedy, “Britain’s Trade Advisers Include a Man Who Called Climate Science ‘Absolute Crap’”, in Vice:

Will the UK’s foreign policy become a form of ‘Trussian Roulette’.

2022 July 25, Barry Didcock, “Is Liz Truss the new Maggie or a Lib Dem mole?”, in The Herald:

‘Trussian’ economics has much in common with Johnsonian bluster, writes John Mclaren.

2022 July 28, The Scotsman, page 21 (image):

With that record of revisionist chutzpah it is easy to see why Truss thinks she can wipe the slate clean. Declare Year One of the Trussian Age.

2022 August 3, Rafael Behr, “Johnson’s school of half-truths could spell victory for Truss”, in The Guardian, page 2:

In the present day, it looks likely that Liz Truss will win. This is due to her willingness to tell Tory fairy tales (Trussian fairy tales) and embrace magical thinking on taxes, public spending and economics, all of which the Tory membership, still supporting the Thatcherite mirage, want to believe.

2022 August 3, Gerry Hassan, “Tory Britain is over”, in Scottish Review:

And as the Trussian juggernaut rules the waves, next week is unlikely to be Rishi's Trafalgar, but almost certainly his Waterloo.

2022 August 25, Madeline Grant, “Truss rules the waves in Norwich while Rishi Partridge meets his Waterloo”, in The Telegraph:

These are perfectly consistent with the new Prime Minister’s approach to the world, and she should focus on telling a story of how these will build to a longer-term Trussian approach after the election.

2022 August 31, Rachel Wolf, “Truss’s in tray 3) Rachel Wolf: Levelling Up. There is no time for another new approach. The new Prime Minister must focus on delivery.”, in ConservativeHome:

It is Scotland’s good fortune, even so, that the country will not be an immediate or urgent priority for Trussian attention.

2022 September 4, Alex Massie, “Liz Truss should steer clear of Nicola Sturgeon”, in The Times:

But one does not attend a Meghan Markle speech – her first in Britain since 2020’s Megxit – expecting either profundity or revelation, any more than one would hope for Wildean (or even Trussian) sallies of wit.

2022 September 6, Alexander Larman, “The Harry ‘n’ Meghan circus shows no sign of coming to an end”, in The Spectator:

Yet her lack of polish gives her authenticity. Perhaps we shall just have to get used to her odd, Trussian ways.

2022 September 6, Jan Moir, “Together we can ride out the storm: JAN MOIR watches as the heavens opened before Liz Truss arrived in Downing Street for her big speech. Then, in a moment loaded with cheering symbolism, the skies cleared... and our new Prime Minister addressed the nation”, in Daily Mail:

But at the centre of the Trussian flight-from-reality is her failure to explain how her commitment to lower taxes as the engine of growth[…]

2022 September 7, David Aaronovitch, “Be honest, Liz, and you might earn goodwill”, in The Times:

With what could yet come to be seen as Trussian bluntness, this became apparent in her first answer to him.

2022 September 7, Kit Sandeman, “The populist baton is free - if Labour want to pick it up”, in The Yorkshire Post:

‘It’s that Trussian lack of polish that gives her welcome authenticity’

2022 September 7, Scottish Daily Mail, page 6 (image):

(UK politics) Of or pertaining to Liz Truss (born 1975), British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2022.


surgical strike

en-noun

surgical strike (plural surgical strikes)

Kennedy at the time was greatly concerned over reports that the Chinese Communists were secretly conducting nuclear explosions at Lop Nor in Northwest China—a sure indication they were working on atomic weapons. This was the period when Moscow and Peking were still close to each other, otherwise it might have been possible for the United States to devise a way to neutralize Peking's nuclear potential at an early stage. At their meeting Kennedy asked Chen many questions about Lop Nor. Could he have been thinking of a preventive surgical strike?

1983, James C. H. Shen, “Rejoining the Government”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

Months later, Modi ordered a surgical strike on alleged insurgents inside Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, and vowed to isolate Islamabad diplomatically.

2017 August 10, Ashok Sharma, “AP Explains: 70 years of India-Pakistan tensions unresolved”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-10-02:

(military, weaponry) A military attack of closely-controlled scope on a highly specific target.


Mayite

In the House of Commons, Mayites are few in number. Beyond the tight circle of her husband Philip and her two indispensable advisers, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, no one seems certain about what makes May tick.

2017 February 10, Sebastian Payne, “Who is Theresa May? In pursuit of a very private prime minster”, in Financial Times:

(UK politics) A political supporter of Theresa May (born 1943), British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019.


Mayite

Immediately, Johnson slipped back into the old British policy, announcing that despite furious opposition from the U.S., the U.K. would allow Huawei to play a part in Britain’s 5G rollout. It was, in essence, a continuation of the Mayite policy—which itself was little more than a continuation of the cautious engagement that had been in place for decades.

2022 August 2, Tom McTague, “Why Britain Changed Its China Stance”, in The Atlantic:

(UK politics) Of or relating to the government, policies, or supporters of Theresa May.


Trussite

There are the Trussites, hovering over her Instagram posts in political adoration, and then there are others who consider her a menace who is about to be made Prime Minister in a sinister conspiracy by Brexiteers.

2022 May 11, George Trefgarne, “In defence of Liz Truss’s retro economics”, in The Spectator:

So it is a measure from Liz Truss’s government and that allows the Labour party to tell a story that has the potential to do real damage to the Conservatives: that Sunak is simply too weak, and his party is sufficiently Trussite that he is essentially a puppet for his predecessor.

2023 October 25, Stephen Bush, “Bankers’ bonuses: Sunak’s Trussite hangover carries political costs”, in Financial Times:

resignations brought about Johnson’s demise and those loyal Johnsonites who favoured the return of their betrayed leader; and then between tax-cutting Trussites and orthodox Thatcherite supporters of Rishi Sunak.

2024 May 15, Colin Kidd, “The strange death of conservatism”, in New Statesman:

(UK politics, neologism) A political supporter of Liz Truss (born 1975), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister in September–October 2022.


flash pan

flash pans (plural)
flashpan (alternative)

(firearms) A small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns.


floretty

fleurettée (alternative)
fleuretty (alternative)
florettée (alternative)

(heraldry, of a cross) Decorated (finished at the ends) with fleurs-de-lis, which (unlike a cross flory) are attached in their entirety to the arms of the couped cross, rather than the arms developing into that shape.


No 11

Government sources, however, continued to brief that No 10 and No 11 were considering bringing the date forward.

2022 October 4, “Truss government in chaos amid budget confusion and coup accusations”, in The Guardian:

11 Downing Street
11 Downing Street#English

(UK politics) Synonym of 11 Downing Street.


OBR

Mel Stride, the Conservative chair of the Treasury committee, has called for the OBR forecasts to be published immediately and the government’s plans to be brought forward to the end of October, before the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets to consider interest rates.

Office for Budget Responsibility
w:Office for Budget Responsibility

(UK politics) Initialism of Office for Budget Responsibility.


Bossku

From boss and Malay -ku (“my”), meaning "my boss". From an internet post by Najib, "Nak malu apa bossku", which means "What to be ashamed of, my boss".

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak is getting so used to being called "Bossku" (my boss) these days that he almost does not go by his name any more.

(Malaysia, politics, slang, humorous) Najib Razak, former prime minister of Malaysia.


wifeism

In this chapter I examine the emergence of wifeism and the bureaucratization of women's concerns in Nigeria through state involvement, especially since the early 1980s.

1999, Amrita Basu, C. Elizabeth McGrory, Women's Movements in Global Perspective, page 213:

But this is not unconnected with the fact that the electoral system in Nigeria is still skewed in favour of wifeism.

1999, Matthew Hassan Kukah, Democracy and Civil Society in Nigeria, page 168:

(Nigeria, politics) A patriarchal societal tendency whereby women can only achieve things as the wives of men of rank.


Green New Dealer

Green New Dealer (plural Green New Dealers)

The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.

2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times:

(US politics) A proponent of the Green New Deal.


Pelosian

en-adj

Pelosian (comparative more Pelosian, superlative most Pelosian)

more Pelosian (comparative)
most Pelosian (superlative)

Hidalgo has drawn comparisons with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 30-year-old New York congresswoman who was elected the same year and became an instantly iconic progressive in national politics—a hero on the left and a villain of Pelosian proportions for the right.

2020 September 2, Ciara O'Rourke, “The Latina Progressive Who Faced Down Texas Republicans”, in Politico:

House of Representatives
House of Representatives

(US politics) Of or pertaining to Nancy Pelosi (born 1940), American politician and speaker of the United States House of Representatives.


inveckée

second, gu. a cross moline within a border inveckée, for CADDELL;

1842, John Burke, Bernard Burke, A General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland:

[caption on an illustration of a chief double-enarched:] A Chief inveckée.

1911, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith, page 3170:

(heraldry) Indented by semicircles, variously defined in old works as invected or (double-)enarched (with semicircles biting inwards and points pointing outward) or engrailed (with semicircles biting outwards and points pointing inward).


choke tube

(firearms) An internally tapering metal cylinder attached to the muzzle of a shotgun, designed to constrict the spreading pattern of the shot pellets.


“Our founders built their own guns,” Masters added. “They intended us to as well — it’s the ultimate political act, a liberty the 2A protects. Technology will not stop. With 3D printing, this is going to get easier year after year. I’ll be a political check on ‘gun control,’ but the technological check is inevitable.”

2022 April 13, Ryan Bort, “The Real Reason Republicans Are Loading Their 2022 Campaign Ads With Guns”, in Rolling Stone:

Second Amendment
Second Amendment#English

(US politics) Abbreviation of Second Amendment.


RVI

Royal Victoria Infirmary
w:Royal Victoria Infirmary

Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne#English

(UK, healthcare) Initialism of Royal Victoria Infirmary; a large hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom.


government shutdown

en-noun

government shutdown (plural government shutdowns)

Some employees will continue working through the government shutdown, however, including the three with the longest commute: NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Joseph Acaba, and Scott Tingle.

2018 January 20, Marina Koren, “What Happens to Astronauts During a Government Shutdown?”, in The Atlantic:

The former superintendent of Joshua Tree national park has said it could take hundreds of years to recover from damage caused by visitors during the longest-ever government shutdown.

2019 January 29, Ashley Boucher, “Joshua Tree national park ‘may take 300 years to recover’ from shutdown”, in The Guardian:

(politics) The cessation of non-essential operations or services of a government, often as a result of a budget crisis.


Republicanism

“It’s not going to change,” Madrid says. “[…] This is mainstream Republicanism. So once you start to move off of that, you will start to lose the intensity of the support and turnout you need from the shrinking Republican base. […]”

(US politics) The policy or philosophy of the Republican Party of the United States.


FECOMZ

Forward Echelon, Communications Zone
w:FECOMZ

(military, historical) Abbreviation of Forward Echelon, Communications Zone.


battalion tactical group

battalion tactical group (plural battalion tactical groups)

(military) A military unit of the armed forces which incorporates multiple branches of the military within a single command structure (also known as combined arms).

(Russia, military) A combined arms military unit that is used for specific tasks and to achieve a discreet mission. Originated during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; also used significantly during the 2014 and 2022 Russian invasions of Ukraine.


art of the possible

Calque of German Kunst des Möglichen, coined by Otto von Bismarck. The possible is here a singular nominalised adjective, meaning “that which is possible”.


frontierism

(politics) Support for a frontier; especially, the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that a settler colonial exceptionalism, under the guise of American democracy, was formed by appropriation of the rugged American frontier.


anti-independence

en-adj

anti-independence (comparative more anti-independence, superlative most anti-independence)

more anti-independence (comparative)
most anti-independence (superlative)
antiindependence (alternative)

(politics) Opposing political independence.


en-proverb

if you go far enough left, you get your guns back

(politics) Liberals or center-leftists widely support firearm restrictions, while those on the far left, such as Marxists, do not.


kamikaze drone

This aircraft would essentially function as a kamikaze drone, crashing into its target and detonating its explosives upon impact, and did not appear to be much of a step up from the single-use drones Iran had years earlier.

2014, Peter Bergen, Daniel Rothenberg, editors, Drone Wars, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 302:

One such kamikaze drone is called the Switchblade; it was introduced by AeroVironment in 2012 and sold widely to the US military.

2020, Michael J. Boyle, The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 138:

The Ukrainians themselves have been using kamikaze drones to strike against Russian targets – and asked their allies to supply them with more of these deadly weapons.

2022 October 17, Ivana Kottasová, “‘Kamikaze’ drones are the latest threat for Ukraine. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:

As we predicted at the time, a drone attack on Sevastopol's Black Sea Fleet headquarters over the summer proved an incredible harbinger of the war's next chapter. Ukraine has used improvised unmanned systems – primarily its so-called 'Alibaba drones' — to attack beyond its current territorial bounds and even into Russia proper. The introduction of unmanned drone ships configured as anti-ship weapons is an extension of these tactics. Russia's use en-masse of Iranian kamikaze drones against Ukrainian infrastructure in the last two months, as well as Ukraine increasing its own kamikaze drone operations in an attempt to strike back, has further evolved at least one major facet of conflict into a drone war of sorts.

2022 October 29, Howard Altman, Stetson Payne, Tyler Rogoway, “Ukraine Unleashes Mass Kamikaze Drone Boat Attack On Russia's Black Sea Fleet Headquarters”, in The Drive, retrieved 2022-11-14:

(military, informal) A drone vehicle that attacks targets by crashing into them and exploding.


bullumteer

From volunteer, as pronounced by sepoys.

The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."

1880, Francis John Bellew, Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page 202:

We were all bullumteers on the Canal works.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, His Brother’s Keeper:

(India, military, slang, obsolete) A volunteer of certain regiments of the old Bengal Army.


AMRAAM

air-to-air missile
air-to-air missile#English

(military) Initialism of advanced medium-range air-to-air missile.


NSL

National Security Law
w:2020 Hong Kong national security law

(politics) Initialism of National Security Law.


Trussonomics

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Trussonomics.

(UK politics, economics, neologism) The economic policies and theories of former UK prime minister Liz Truss.


VFR direct

He went VFR direct to the general, and without having gotten his facts straight.

(US military, slang) Bypassing normal channels, particularly skipping intervening levels in the chain of command.


ministerial code

en-noun

ministerial code (usually uncountable, plural ministerial codes)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ministerial code.

(UK politics) A code of conduct for government ministers in the United Kingdom.


Hayekism

From Hayek + -ism. Named after Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian-British economist, legal theorist and philosopher.

The vision was of a low tax, low regulation society where the richest are freed to unleash their awesome talents and make themselves even richer. According to this vision – whether you call it Hayekism, ultra-Thatcherism, Reaganism or economic libertarianism – when the fortunate few at the top soar ever upwards, some of their wealth trickles down to those at the bottom.

2022 October 20, Jonathan Freedland, “Truss has discredited high-octane, free-market economics - perhaps for ever”, in The Guardian:

(politics, economics) An economic ideology that emphasizes unregulated markets and the abandonment of welfare.


Singapore-on-the-Thames

(UK politics, economics) Alternative form of Singapore-on-Thames.


Sunakism

This is Sunakism: a belief that it’s suicidal for any government to depend on high borrowing and low interest rates, because those rates could surge at any time.

2020 December 19, Katy Balls, Fraser Nelson, “‘It’s not morally right to keep borrowing at these levels’: Rishi Sunak’s plan to fix the UK economy”, in The Spectator:

But for the time being, it feels as though Johnsonism – with its infrastructure spending and red wall handouts – is winning out over whatever Sunakism might turn out to be.

2021 October 27, Heather Stewart, “Johnsonism wins budget battle but will Sunakism win the war?”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The political philosophy associated with Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.


Sunakite

This is stupid politics from the Sunakites. It is akin to being 4-0 down in a football match in injury time and instead of accepting defeat gracefully going around elbowing opponents in the face and performing leg-breaking tackles.

2022 August 10, Patrick O'Flynn, “Why Rishi Sunak shouldn’t quit”, in The Spectator:

I don't write as a long-term Sunakite (or Sunakster or Sunakparast or whatever the agentive sux is). The only conversation I have had with our dapper PM was an awkward phone call in which I told him I would be voting for Liz Truss.

2023 October 1, Daniel Hannan, “It may be too late, but it is heartening to see Sunak governing like a true Conservative”, in Sunday Telegraph, page 21:

Team Sunak were clearly hoping for a "moment" which would flesh out his hopes of having the UK act as a bridge between the US and European regulation. The result was a speech peculiarly unsuited to an international event, to the horror of Sunakites who hoped for "special AI relationship with knobs on" (as one aide put it).

2024 July 23, Anne McElvoy, “Clunky Kamala can still take the fight to Trump with vigour”, in Evening Standard, page 16:

(UK politics, neologism) A political supporter of Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.


Sunakite

My view is that Truss will be forced to adopt those Sunakite, overwhelmingly statist policies anyway, because the alternative is mass penury. The first test of her skill will be how she presents the emergency measures as something she, as a conviction politician, believed in all along.

2022 August 21, John Rentoul, “Why Truss could be a successful prime minister”, in Gulf Today:

Alex Chalk, the cool Sunakite justice secretary, has just abandoned Dominic Raab’s “British Bill of Rights”, which was itself a rather timid attempt to curtail the European court’s powers.

2023 June 30, John Rentoul, “Defeat over the Rwanda policy is a disaster for Sunak”, in The Independent, page 25:

The diaries are the first attempt at setting out a recognisably Sunakite version of the Tories’ recent history. In essence the argument goes that there was nothing that could have rescued the party’s fortunes after Truss resigned.

2025 March 8, Declan Lyons, “The punishing life of a chief whip”, in The Spectator, London:

(UK politics) Of or relating to the government, policies, or supporters of Rishi Sunak.


uncockable

(rail transport, firearms, rare) Not able to be cocked.


cockable

(rail transport, firearms, rare) Able to be cocked.


USCP

United States Capitol Police
w:United States Capitol Police

(law enforcement) Initialism of United States Capitol Police: a federal law enforcement agency in the United States with nationwide jurisdiction charged with protecting the United States Congress.


tax hike

(taxation, informal) A sudden increase in taxes.


direct tax

(taxation) A tax imposed upon a person or property as distinct from a tax imposed upon a transaction.


indirect tax

(taxation) A tax that is levied upon goods and services before they reach the customer who ultimately pays the indirect tax as a part of the market price of the goods or services purchased.


tax due

tax due (countable and uncountable, plural taxes due)

(taxation) The total amount a taxpayer must pay to the government or other entity.


license fee

(taxation) An amount of money collected from an individual or an organization by the government or other entity in order to legitimize an activity.


Dark Brandon

From let's go, Brandon with influence from Dark MAGA.

A 26-year-old sent a pithy email that argued: “Biden could literally do nothing for the next two and a half years[…] We chose the only candidate who could win and he did.” He also sent us a Biden meme of what he called “Dark Brandon.”

[2022 July 13, Alex Thompson, Max Tani, “The Holy War over Hunter Biden’s laptop”, in Politico:

“Dark Brandon is crushing it,” tweeted Andrew Bates, the White House deputy press secretary, on Sunday night, referring to President Joe Biden.

2022 August 8, Perret Connor, Bryan Metzger, “Biden White House embraces ‘Dark Brandon,’ a parody of the ‘Dark MAGA’ meme used by the far right”, in Business Insider:

California farmworkers may struggle with clout in our state Capitol, but they definitely have friends in higher places. Those include Dark Brandon, that feisty internet alter ego of Joe Biden who is done being the ice-cream-eating nice guy – and is letting his antagonists know it, whether they are MAGA Republicans or wayward California governors.

2022 September 7, Anita Chabria, “Dark Brandon turns the tables on Newsom; Governor, who has called out moderates, gets schooled by Biden in union fight”, in Los Angeles Times, page B1:

“That sneaky Joe Biden pulled an October surprise on the Republicans by doing something popular,” said Stephen Colbert of the marijuana pardon. “Today, Dark Brandon became Dank Brandon.”

2022 October 7, “Kimmel on Biden’s marijuana pardon: ‘Glad Willie Nelson is alive to see this’”, in The Guardian (online):

Grant Stern, executive editor of political organization Occupy Democrats, wrote: “Dark Brandon gets Republicans to cheerily promise not to cut Social Security and Medicare live during the #SOTU speech!”

2023 February 8, Darragh Roche, “How Joe Biden Skewered Republicans in State of the Union ‘Masterclass’”, in Yerepouni Daily News, Beirut:

Democrats have long sought to ignite their own messages online. And the Biden campaign has been quick to embrace the “Dark Brandon” meme, in which the president is depicted as a kind of superhero, sometimes with lasers for eyes.

2023 July 18, Jess Bidgood, “Ron DeSantis wants to make his mark online, but is it paying off?”, in Boston Globe (subscription):

Dark Brandon has never been darker. Molly Roberts is talking about the internetty persona of President Biden, the meme lord with lasers emanating from his eyes — the one who tweeted after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory that he had orchestrated the whole thing, just as far-right conspiracy theorists had alleged.

2024 February 14, Drew Goins, “Recognizing other relationships, from platonic to polyamorous”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics, slang, humorous, ironic) Joe Biden (46th President of the United States), especially used by liberals to refer to the idea of a more powerful Biden, or to point out something powerful he has actually done.


para-communism

From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + communism.

prefix

In a later section we must examine communism as a world force, but here it is to be observed that just as Chinese democracy is not the same thing as Western democracy but a para-democracy, so Chinese communism is not by any means the Russian article, but a para-communism.

1939, H. G. Wells, “The Chinese Outlook”, in The Fate of Man (Essay Index Reprint Series), Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 182:

It was Chiang who, on the advice of Borodin and his numerous Russian assistants, gave the Kuomintang (National People's Party) a definite Communist tinge and an organization akin to that of the Soviet Communist Party and the party cells. Kuomintang was consequently described by some observers as a kind of para-communism.

1968, W. Petro, Triple Commission, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96:

Indeed, at the heart of the allergy of communism and para-communism to the environmental cause is the Marxist heritage which, in this area, was carefully preserved by Lenin and his successors.

2022, Philippe Buton, “The French Left and the Politicization of Environmental Issues”, in European History Quarterly, volume 52, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(communism) An ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.


foedus pacificum

From Latin foedus (“alliance”), pācificum (“peaceful”), in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.

Moreover, the imbalance of Article 2 para. 4 and the right to self-defence is paralleled to a “significant oscillation” in Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” between the positive idea of a world-republic and the negative substitute of a foedus pacificum.

2003, Klaus Dicke, “Peace Through International Law and the Case of Iraq”, in Gerhard Beestermöller, editor, Iraq: Threat and Response, →ISBN, page 21:

But still, he argues, if Kant’s hypothesis of a foedus pacificum is correct, as Rawls believes it is, armed conflict between democratic peoples will tend to disappear as they approach the ideal of constitutional regimes.

2006, Alyssa R. Bernstein, “A Human Right to Democracy? Legitimacy and Intervention”, in Raw Martin, David A. Reidy, editors, Rawls’s Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?, page 290:

The other face of the foedus pacificum, in other words, is a democratic war theory, an account of how and why republics will fight wars and a recognition that such wars may be very fierce and very frequent until such time as the foedus pacificum covers the earth.

2013, Nicholas Rengger, Just War and International Order: The Uncivil Condition in World Politics, →ISBN, page 58:

(politics) A theoretical global league of republics that would produce world peace.


felony stop

(US, law enforcement) A traffic stop of a person that is deemed dangerous, and performed from a distance by shouting instructions with weapons drawn.


felony traffic stop

en-noun

felony traffic stop (plural felony traffic stops)

(US, law enforcement) Synonym of felony stop.


BZO

battlesight zero
battlesight zero#English

(military) Initialism of battlesight zero.


LPIR

low-probability-of-intercept radar
w:low-probability-of-intercept radar

(military) Initialism of low-probability-of-intercept radar.


AESA

active electronically scanned array
w:active electronically scanned array

(military) Initialism of active electronically scanned array.


PESA

passive electronically scanned array
w:passive electronically scanned array

(military) Initialism of passive electronically scanned array.


APAR

active phased array radar
w:active phased array radar

(military) Acronym of active phased array radar.


PTF

Some of the recommendations made by the PTF to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as religious institutions and hotels open up include: managed access to markets and locations of economic activity to limit the risk of transmitting Covid-19, mandatory use of face masks and temperature checks in public places, and information campaigns on the dangers of the virus among others.

2020 June 2, Aisha Salaudeen, “Nigeria reopens churches, mosques and hotels amid rising cases of Covid-19”, in CNN:

presidential task force
w:presidential task force

(government) Initialism of presidential task force.


de-Sukarnoization

(politics, historical) A purging policy in Indonesia from 1966 to 1998, in which President Suharto defamed his predecessor Sukarno and downplayed his role in Indonesian history.


male-

Ignoring male-odorous patriarchal rituals and ceremonies, we celebrate New Sparks of Elemental Feminist Genius with our own festivals.

1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence: Realizing the Archaic Future:

(rare, derogatory, feminism) Variant of mal-; used to associate men with negative things


femstruate

en-verb

femstruate (third-person singular simple present femstruates, present participle femstruating, simple past and past participle femstruated)

femstruates (present singular third-person)
femstruating (participle present)
femstruated (participle past)
femstruated (past)

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Blend of fem- + menstruate, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menstruate.


femopause

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Blend of fem- + menopause, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menopause.


close the range

close the range (third-person singular simple present closes the range, present participle closing the range, simple past and past participle closed the range)

closes the range (present singular third-person)
closing the range (participle present)
closed the range (participle past)
closed the range (past)

With reports of the Japanese forces bearing down on them confirmed, Rear Admiral Sprague orders his ships east, heading towards a series of rain squalls, hoping for concealment. This will hopefully delay the Japanese closing the range, and also draw them away from the much-more-vulnerable landing ships.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 10:57 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

(military) To move oneself or one's vehicle(s) (warships, tanks, aircraft, etc.) closer to the enemy in order to allow them to fire on the enemy, either more effectively or at all.


DPV

diver propulsion vehicle
w:diver propulsion vehicle

(nautical, underwater diving, military) Initialism of diver propulsion vehicle.


nation-builder

(political science, geopolitics) A person who takes part in nation-building; a member of a state who takes the initiative in developing the national community through government programs.


dragon's teeth

en-noun

dragon's teeth pl (normally plural, singular dragon's tooth)

Experiments showed that twenty-five to fifty pounds of explosives often was needed to break a single dragon's tooth, and large pillboxes required half a ton.

2013, Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (The Liberation Trilogy; 3), New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 251:

“Dragon’s teeth have likely been installed between Mariupol and Nikolske village; and from northern Mariupol to Staryi Krym village. […] Dragon’s teeth have additionally been sent for the preparation of defensive fortifications in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson,” the intelligence assessment said.

2022 November 8, Peter Beaumont, “Russia installs ‘dragon’s teeth’ barriers to slow advance of Ukrainian forces”, in The Guardian:

(military) Square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry.

Drachenzähne

fortifications to impede the movement of tanks


Trumpster diving

So, sit back, grill a Trump Steak, pour a tall glass of Trump Vodka, and go “Trumpster diving” for some billiondollar stanzas, straight from the Bard of the Deal. As the Poet himself might say, this stuff is like very, very, very good.

2015 December 15, Hart Seely, Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

He presents himself as a Strong Man who promises to knock heads and make things right again. In this, he has a lot more in common with South American populist demagogues than with our tradition of political leaders... The middle-class consensus in America has collapsed. This is the most important political and social earthquake since World War II. The conservative movement's leadership isn't up to the challenge, and a good number of voters are willing to gamble on Trump's bluster. Bad bet. Our nation's solidarity is being tested. It will only make things worse if we go Trumpster diving.

2016 January 21, R. R. Reno, “Conservatives against Trump”, in National Review, archived from the original on 2022-10-29:

Reno humorously cautions against going “Trumpster diving” for our next president (p. 38). Donald Trump was reviled for his vulgarity and boastfulness.

2017 March 8, William L. Benoit, Mark J. Glantz, Persuasive Attacks on Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Primary, Lexington Books, →ISBN:

scraping the bottom of the barrel
scrape the bottom of the barrel

(US, politics, dated, informal, humorous) The act of scraping the bottom of the barrel to find a candidate.

VBNMW

voting for liberal candidates regardless of their record


red wedding

The first sense derives from red as an adjective meaning associated with or supportive of communism. The second sense derives from The Red Wedding scene in A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

As the church sought to make these events significant with its ceremonies, so did the Communists with their “Red weddings,” “Red funerals” and “Red christenings.”

1942 October, Albert Rhys Williams, “Religion in the USSR”, in Soviet Russia Today, page 15:

They celebrated “red weddings” at factories, bride and groom standing before a piece of machinery and pledging their loyalty first to the communist state, then to each other.

1994, Woodford McClellan, Russia: The Soviet Period and After, page 77:

Soon "Red weddings" replaced church weddings for dedicated Communists.

1998, Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, page 186:

(dated, communism) A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.


underticket

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First, there was the embarrassment of the election of 1890, and the recognition by many voters (including several Republican leaders) that the election had been stolen, at least from the candidates for the underticket.

Thus the governor was able to take charge of his party, win the primary for himself and his lieutenant governor, and control the underticket.

1998, Sarah McCally Morehouse, The Governor as Party Leader: Campaigning and Governing, page 157:

Apart from the lieutenant governor's race (incumbent John Daley won by almost 16,000 votes), the underticket offices were closely contested.

2003, Samuel B. Hand, The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974:

(politics) The elections for minor positions that are on the same ballot as elections for positions that receive more press coverage and attention.


ranked choice

ranked-choice ballot; ranked-choice voting

The results — on the 31-column spreadsheet that Ms. Quan held in her hands — testified to the power of finishing second in a ranked-choice election. […] Campaign strategists said Ms. Quan had taken advantage of a ranked-choice system that was used in Oakland for the first time.

2010 November 11, Zusha Elinson, Gerry Shih, “The Winning Strategy in Oakland: Concentrate on Being 2nd or 3rd Choice”, in The New York Times:

The election was the first in Alaska to utilize ranked-choice voting, a system adopted by the state’s voters in 2020. […] Ranked choice is more efficient than holding a runoff election, and its backers insist that it offers a better reflection of voters’ preferences.

2022 September 1, Adam Serwer, “Republicans Have Only Themselves to Blame for Their Alaskan Defeat”, in The Atlantic:

(politics, often attributively) Any voting system in which voters rank their candidates (or options) in order of preference on their ballots.

any voting system in which voters rank their candidates (or options) in order of preference on their ballots


Demmie

Let the Demmies rail and shout, / And what is it all about, / When they prate of “tariff and reform?” / By their actions in the past / Well we know from first to last, / What the wonders are that they'd perform.

1888, “Hear the Joyful Song”, in The Tippecanoe Campaign Songster: Harrison and Morton; Sketch of Their Lives and Full Text of the Republican Platform, W. F. Shaw Co., page 17:

The cheapness of these so-called “great” men was shown when a Senate committee on Unemployment Insurance elected their chairman. Senator Wagner, a Demmy, presented the motion in the Senate that Unemployment Insurance be probed. He, together with Senators Hebert (R. I.) and Glenn (Ill.) were appointed on the committee in the order named.

1931 May, James P. Egan, “Comment on the National Show”, in Machinists' Monthly Journal, volume 43, number 5, Washington, D.C.: International Association of Machinists, page 300:

(US politics, slang, now rare) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party.


Silver Cross

From silver + cross from the shape of the medal, being cross-shaped, and the colouration of the medal, being silvery.

(military) A high-level military service award.

(Canada) A Canadian award for those who died in active service, such as in combat


alpha strike

But you did specify naval gunfire, and so at that point... yeah, I think Invincible is pretty much the one that takes the cake for "most devastating alpha strike". Everything else either took a lot longer to die, or had to be hit by a lot more shells before it went boom.

2021 March 28, Drachinifel, 2:27:18 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 139, archived from the original on 2022-11-05:

(military) A sudden, massive, devastating concentration of fire upon a single opponent in order to immediately neutralize the opponent with overwhelming force.


pro-masker

pro-maskers (plural)
promasker (alternative)

From pro- + mask + -er. Likely influenced by pro-vaxxer.

Beightol, who is the administrator for several Facebook pages where public schools teachers can vent, said educators fall into three categories: vocal pro-maskers, vocal anti-maskers and pro-maskers who stay out of the line of fire.

2021 August 8, Francisco Alvarado, “‘I don’t see how it can be safe’: Florida schools on frontlines of state’s mask war”, in The Guardian:

(healthcare, politics) A person who supports the practice or mandate of wearing masks.


blue wave

A handful of local elections in Mississippi is hardly a blue wave. But Democrats across the South hope what just happened there is the start of something big – the first ripple of a Democratic comeback in the Deep South.

2013 June 23, Molly Ball, “Can Democrats Win Back the Deep South?”, in The Atlantic:

(US politics) A surge of voters supporting the candidates of the Democratic Party during an election (especially a midterm election), which results in the party making significant gains.


red wave

Episodes like this may be one reason the red wave didn’t materialize, why Republicans failed to usher in a new dawn of prosperity for the multiracial working class that Republican leaders from Senator Ted Cruz to the House policy honcho Jim Banks say they want to champion.

2022 November 10, Sohrab Ahmari, “Why the Red Wave Didn’t Materialize”, in The New York Times:

Republicans had hoped that a “red wave” in the midterm elections would allow them to flip dozens of House seats, giving them a much more comfortable majority. Instead, Republicans were barely about to flip the House, and Democrats may even be able to increase their Senate majority depending on the results of the Georgia runoff next month.

2022 November 16, Joan E Greve, “Q&A: what does a split Congress mean for US politics?”, in The Guardian:

(US politics) A surge of voters supporting the candidates of the Republican Party during an election (especially a midterm election), which results in the party making significant gains.


pink wave

Americans were promised a “pink wave” of self-proclaimed “nasty women” who would reshape the Democratic Party and play a bigger role in government. Indeed, in 2018, a record number of women — notably including Black women and other women of color — were elected to local and federal offices.

2020 November 27, Lyz Lenz, “White women vote Republican. Get used to it, Democrats.”, in The Washington Post:

(politics) A surge in the number of women running for office, the number of female voters, or the number of people voting for female candidates during an election, which results in the election of more women or politicians supporting feminist issues (such as abortion rights).

And the movement he heads – chavismo – was once a beacon for the world’s left, a socialist revolution that won elections, empowered the poor and challenged US hegemony in Latin America. It was the red foam of the “pink wave” that took power in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua. Jeremy Corybn and Oliver Stone, among others, paid homage.

2017 July 30, Rory Carroll, “Nicolás Maduro: will Venezuela’s president drag his people to the edge?”, in The Observer:

(politics) Synonym of pink tide (“a tendency towards left-wing governments in Latin American democracies”).


terzetta

(firearms, historical) An old Italian flintlock pistol.


AEW&C

(US, aviation, military) Initialism of airborne early warning and control.


Bangalore torpedo

Bangalore torpedo (plural Bangalore torpedoes or Bangalore torpedos)

Bangalore torpedoes (plural)
Bangalore torpedos (plural)

From having been invented by a Royal Engineers captain while stationed in the city of Bangalore in 1912.

(military) A long pipe filled with explosive, which is pushed forwards along the ground and then detonated to clear a path through wire obstacles and minefields.


DOTP

dictatorship of the proletariat
dictatorship of the proletariat#English

(politics) Initialism of dictatorship of the proletariat.


CADPAT

Canadian disruption pattern
Canadian disruption pattern#English

(Canada, military) Acronym of Canadian disruption pattern, the copyrighted digital pixelated squared camouflage pattern used by the Canadian Armed Forces first introduced early in the 21st-century, inspired by dual-tex and inspiring U.S. MARPAT that inspired U.S. UCP.


NASAMS

(military) Initialism of Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System.


no further action

(law enforcement, criminal law, UK, Malaysia) A potential formal outcome for a suspect from a police investigation, indicating that no action will be taken.


RML

rifled muzzleloader
w:rifled muzzleloader

(military) Initialism of rifled muzzleloader.


open city

“You needn’t worry about bombs, by the way. Dresden is an open city. It is undefended, and contains no war industries or troop concentrations of any importance.”

1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 127:

(military, international law) A city which has announced (during wartime) that it has abandoned all defensive efforts, generally in the event of its imminent capture.

不設防城市 /不设防城市

city which has abandoned defensive efforts


en echelon

From French en échelon, literally in echelon.

(nautical, military, of wing-mounted gun turrets on a warship) Staggered; offset so that the wing turret on one side is mounted further forwards than the one on the opposite side.


infil

infil (countable and uncountable, plural infils)

After all this information has been gained, the troops and teams start conducting rehearsals on hitting the target. What this means is that they will conduct Full Mission Profiles (FMP). This covers every aspect of the operation — the infil to the target, actions on the objective, and then exfil from the target location back to the staging area.

2019 November 22, Brian Gilly, “Gilly: When Army Special Operations gets ‘the call’ for battle”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune:

(chiefly military) Clipping of infiltration (“the act of going into a place”).


private ship

(military, nautical) A warship that is not the flagship of a fleet or squadron.


ultrarealism

(politics, philosophy) Any particular strong form of realism.


undee

N. R. Gavin DRUMMOND , descended of Kildies, who was a Cadet of the Family of Pitkellanie, Or, three Barrs undee Gules, over all a naked Man naiant in Pale, grasping in his dexter Hand a Sword, and having his sinister Hand[…]

1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 68:

Arms - Gules, a falcon volant, or, within an orle engrailed, undee, argent.

1846, William Skey, The Heraldic Calendar: A List of the Nobility and Gentry Whose Arms are Registered, and Pedigrees Recorded in the Herald's Office in Ireland, page 32:

The arms of Fluvian are another early example of canting heraldry, being or, a fess undee gules - on a red shield a wavy horizontal stripe of red, thus alluding to his name, which is from the Latin fluvius, a river.

1881, Frank Henry Norton, Charles Edward Anthon, William Sumner Appleton, Samuel Abbott Green, Jeremiah Colburn, William Theophilus Rogers Marvin, American Journal of Numismatics, page 36:


HESH

(military) Initialism of high explosive squash head; a munition which uses a plastic explosive warhead that squashes on impact before exploding, causing spalling on the interior of armor panels when exploding.


turn in succession

en-verb

turn in succession (third-person singular simple present turns in succession, present participle turning in succession, simple past and past participle turned in succession)

turns in succession (present singular third-person)
turning in succession (participle present)
turned in succession (participle past)
turned in succession (past)

(nautical, military, of ships in a line of battle) To change course one at a time in sequence, with all ships following the track of the leading ship as if on rails and turning at the same location, so as to preserve the layout of the battleline throughout the turn.


turn together

turn together (third-person singular simple present turns together, present participle turning together, simple past and past participle turned together)

turns together (present singular third-person)
turning together (participle present)
turned together (participle past)
turned together (past)

(nautical, military, of ships in a line of battle) To change course simultaneously, without waiting to reach the turning point of the leading ship.


ram bow

(nautical, chiefly military, historical) A bow that projects forwards below the waterline into a reinforced blade or point, used to sink other ships by ramming.


NST

(firefighting) Initialism of National Standard Thread.


line abreast

en-noun

line abreast (usually uncountable, plural lines abreast)

No sooner has the fleet settled onto this course than a small group of Japanese cruisers and actual, real, live, all-singing, all-dancing, all-features-included, protected-by-the-Emperor torpedo boats begin to move to cross the T of the Russian fleet. Worried about a torpedo attack on his lead battleships and determined to sweep this small formation aside, Rozhestvensky orders his main ships into a line abreast, a far-more-potent display of force that allows every forward-pointing gun on his capital ships to bear at the same time. Falling out of line ahead into line abreast does require a bit of skill and some clever handling, but three of the four leading battleships execute it perfectly. Unfortunately, Alexander III gets it wrong, and turns the wrong way. Soon enough, the rest of the line is piling up in confusion as Rozhestvensky tries to decide whether burying his head in his hands, slamming it repeatedly into the nearest bulkhead, or screaming incoherently whilst hurling binoculars at every ship in sight is more becoming for a man of his position. Wearily, he cancels the order and orders the ships back into line-ahead formation instead.

2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 12:24 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 2022-12-04:

(nautical, military) A type of warship formation with the ships proceeding side-by-side on parallel tracks.


line abreast

(nautical, military, aviation, of ships or aircraft) Arranged or proceeding side-by-side.


line ahead

line ahead (usually uncountable, plural lines ahead)

Unfortunately, the squadron was, in fact, quite a bit north by northeast of where they thought they actually were. The radiobeacon readings, as it turned out, had been correct. At about five o'clock in the afternoon, they'd adopted a line ahead formation, and, so, when the flagship made its turn to port at nine o'clock, the rest of the ships followed in an orderly queue. However, it was to be the third ship in line, USS Young, that would be the first casualty, as she tore open her hull on a submerged section of the shoal, capsizing to starboard, and taking twenty men with her, at four minutes past nine.

2019 November 20, Drachinifel, 8:10 from the start, in Honda Point Disaster - Taking a Wrong Turn at Albuquerque, archived from the original on 2022-12-14:

At about 0400 Nishimura's heavy ships joined up again with the Mogami group, and at about 0100 his force assumed its line formation for the approach to Leyte Gulf. In the lead were two destroyers. Four kilometers behind them were the two battleships and the cruiser Mogami in line ahead, with a destroyer on each flank. The last action between the motor-torpedo boats and the Japanese force ended at 0213 on 25 October. As the battle between Nishimura and the PT boats was ending the battle between his force and the American destroyers was beginning.

2024, Walter S. Zapotoczny, “The Battle of Surigao Strait: The Last Crossing of the T”, in Military History Online, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

(nautical, military) A type of warship formation with the ships proceeding one after another and the trailing ships following behind the lead ship on the same path.


lazy dog bomb

From the airdropped ballistic projectile model "Lazy Dog", generalized to all steel airdropped kinetic bombardment ballistic projectiles.

kinetic bombardment
kinetic bombardment#English

ballistic projectile
ballistic projectile#English

(US, military) A fin-stabilized aerial-bomb-shaped solid-steel slug that is dropped from high altitude aircraft, to achieve kinetic bombardment of the targetted area below. This unpowered ballistic projectile contains no explosives and achieves its aims through kinetic energy strikes alone, typically striking at 500 mph.


health visitor

(chiefly UK, healthcare) A healthcare professional engaged in offering public health advice to people in their homes.


graftproof

en-adj

graftproof (comparative more graftproof, superlative most graftproof)

more graftproof (comparative)
most graftproof (superlative)


“Will they be sent to the DC gulag with the J6 prisoners,” [Dan] Bishop tweeted.

2022 July 21, Danielle Battaglia, “After abortion rally arrest, NC lawmaker to ‘continue to put my body on the line’”, in The Herald-Sun, volume 134, number 146, page 4A:

“At this CPAC booth you receive a silent disco headset that plays harrowing testimony from the people arrested for participating in J6,” she [Laura Jedeed] tweeted.

2022 August 5, Ryan Grenoble, “CPAC Has A Special Exhibit: A Sobbing Jan. 6 Rioter In Jail”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2022-08-05:

At CPAC, a wild bit of political theater defending J6 rioters resulted in real tears and prayers. […] For Thursday’s performance in the J6 cage, the man in the prison was an actor.

2022 August 6, Tess Owen, “The Surreal Spectacle of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Capitol Riot Rage Cage”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2022-08-06:

Well, here we go again, another J6 hearing tonite!

2022 August 25, Shickshinny man, Press Enterprise, page 21:

It would be the rare individual who watched the J6 committee’s proceedings and still found reason to doubt what happened during the failed coup attempt – and who was responsible.

2022 October 17, George Ochenski, “Trump 2024? It ain’t gonna happen”, in Missoulian, volume 147, number 290, page A6:

The Hollow’s owner, Victor Mellor Sr., is a former Marine who posted on Facebook that he “Just knocked on front doors” of the Capitol on Jan. 6. Mellor told “Frontline” that he was proud he was there that day and once suggested on social media that he would have a “J6 reunion at the Hollow.”

2022 October 18, Michelle R. Smith, “‘A socialization of insurrection’: After Jan. 6, Michael Flynn moved to Sarasota County and set out to establish a political community of like-minded people”, in Tampa Bay Times, volume 139, number 086, page 22A:

(US politics) The January 6 United States Capitol attack.


post-truthism

In this episode of The Ezra Klein Show, we discuss […] whether George W. Bush was a more damaging president than Donald Trump, the counterintuitive roots of Trumpian post-truthism, and much more.

2020 July 10, Ezra Klein, “Masha Gessen on the frightening fragility of America's political institutions”, in Vox:

But the post-truthism that the new autocrats are so apt at employing goes far beyond fibbing: it denies the existence of a verifiable reality. Post-truthism is not chiefly about getting lies accepted as truths but about muddying the waters to the point that it becomes difficult to discern the difference between truth and falsehood.

2022 February 22, Moisés Naím, “The Dictator's New Playbook”, in Foreign Affairs:

Manipulative populism is a predatory ideology. Its prey is ignorance. Well-thinking folks must expose post-truthism for what it is — lies. There are no such things as "alternative facts", as Kellyanne Conway, former counsellor to president of the United States of America Donald Trump espoused.

2022 September 4, Garfield Higgins, “Divisions, misinformation, and disinformation”, in Jamaica Observer:

(politics, neologism) Post-truth; the normalization of misinformation, lies, and "alternative facts" in society.


ammunitional

[…] the manufacturer's potential liability in this type of situation have emphasized the highly dangerous nature of the product involved, such as ammunitional or inflammable substances.

1960, Louis R. Frumer, Melvin I. Friedman, Products Liability:

To assist action one must give ammunitional specifics to those about to fight.

1972, Carolyn Clugston Leopold, Carolyn Leopold Michaels, School Libraries Worth Their Keep: A Philosophy Plus Tricks, Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press:

(firearms) Of or relating to ammunition.


engine house

(firefighting) A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.


CMCA

cruise missile carrier aircraft
cruise missile carrier aircraft#English

(military, aviation) Initialism of cruise missile carrier aircraft (“a cargoplane loaded with cruise missiles, that are dropped out the rear cargo door to launch while airborne”).


arsenal plane

(military, aviation) A cargoplane filled with munitions, that are deployed when airborne by dropping them out the rear door, and having the weapons perform any necessary targetting and maneuvering by themselves.


restand

en-verb

restand (third-person singular simple present restands, present participle restanding, simple past and past participle restood)

restands (present singular third-person)
restanding (participle present)
restood (participle past)
restood (past)

On 10 August 1977 he announced he would not restand for Lalor at the forthcoming election. He was replaced by my predecessor, Barry Jones.

2003, Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Representatives, page 21298:

(intransitive, politics) To stand again (for office).


arsenal ship

(military, nautical) A ship, filled with missiles, typically cruise missiles, which it can launch to attack far off targets, but which has little in the way of other capabilities, similar to a modified cargoship. A floating missile battery, a floating missile firebase.


e-envoy

Recommendation 14.2 of this report stated 'the Government should appoint an “e-envoy” with a wider remit than originally proposed.

2004, Stephen Battersby, W. H. Bassett, Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, page 187:

(UK politics, Internet, historical) The person in charge of the Office of the e-Envoy, which existed from 1999 to 2004 with the purpose of putting all government departments online.


e-minister

Identify e-champions, and an e-minister if possible, for every government department.

2005, Mehdi Khosrowpour, Practicing E-government, page 230:

(politics, Internet) A minister responsible for e-government policy.


e-govern

e-govern (third-person singular simple present e-governs, present participle e-governing, simple past and past participle e-governed)

e-governs (present singular third-person)
e-governing (participle present)
e-governed (participle past)
e-governed (past)

(politics, Internet) To engage in e-governance.


in full chase

(heraldry) Courant, represented as running.


in piety

THE PELICAN is represented in both British and Foreign Armory with a bowed neck vulning (ie . wounding) her breast; [...] Argent, three pelicans in piety or, their nests vert, was borne by the Scottish family of PATTERSON.

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 264:

Argent, a pelican in piety vert. SHERBURN, St. David's 1505; Chichester 1508. Azure, a pelican in piety or. WAKERING, Norwich 1416. Fox, Exeter 1487; Bath and Wells 1492; Durham 1495; Winchester 1501.

1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 189:

Sinister: Three pelicans in their piety, on a chief three stars. Motto, on an escroll above the mitre : PRO REGE ET GREGE.

1904, William Rae Macdonald, Scottish Armorial Seals, page 276:


Pedocrat

Pushing Back on the Pedocrats: The evidence of the Left's designs on America's children is everywhere.

2022 April 5, Scott McKay, The American Spectator:

There's already pedocrats trying to get rid of the word "pedophile" and replace it with "minor-attracted person". A Pedocrat Groomer like you already knows this though.

2022 April 15, CGSC Lobotomy, Tiger Droppings:

Pedocrat: A pedophile that has been brainwashed by progressive liberal propaganda, rendering their thought processes incoherent and void of anything except for socialism and pedophile intentions. "Dang, Matt! Did you see Creepy Joe try to make a move on that girl? What a pedocrat!"

2019 December 23, Josh J. Hsoj, Urban Dictionary:

Pedocrat: Politicians, typically left-leaning Democrats, who are so devoid of core values and morality that they don’t have any reservations about acting on their pedophilic proclivities. "Did you hear? The Lincoln Project is made up of all pedocrats just like Anthony Weiner!"

2021 February 18, Phaedrus331, Urban Dictionary:

"pedocrat also works." Because California is a good example of what total Democrat party control looks like. And they continually try to lessen punishment of pedophilia and underage sodomy. Dem judges continually give light sentences to pedos. Not to mention Dems obsession to sexualize children. I.e. cuties.

2020 November 8, Zarathustra, Texas A&M Football, Recruiting, News & Forums:

On a side note, is this why pedocrats are so desperate to allow the massive amount of illegal immigration?

2022 November 29, v1rtu0s0, AboveTopSecret, archived from the original on 2022-12-07:

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A member or a supporter of the Democratic Party, a Democrat.


Pedocrat

(US politics, slang, derogatory) Of or pertaining to the Democratic Party.


wild weasel

Genericization of the codename Wild Weasel of the first aircraft tasked with the anti-SAM role in the USAF during the Vietnam War. From the dancing of weasels in the wild and their behavior of hunting snakes, contrasted with the maneuvering of the wild weasel aircraft and their hunting of SAMs.

surface-to-air missile
surface-to-air missile

anti-radiation missile
anti-radiation missile

(US, military, aviation) An attack airplane specialized for attacking anti-aircraft defenses (AADs), typically surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites and radar control stations, typically with anti-radiation missiles (ARMs).


UOR

urgent operational requirement
urgent operational requirement#English

(military) Initialism of urgent operational requirement.


mainlandization

(politics) The assimilation or incorporation of Hong Kong into mainland China.


shoulder mark

(military) A flat cloth sleeve worn on the shoulder strap of a uniform, sometimes bearing rank or other insignia.


urdy

He bears as arms the lion of St. Mark, sejant-guardant, crowned and winged, bearing in the dexter jambe a closed book surmounted by a cross urdy.

1908, Adrian Fortescue, The Orthodox Eastern Church, page 350:

As to the term urdy, which is given in Woodward and Burnett and also in Berry , I can only say I personally have never come across I an instance of its use as a partition line. A cross or a billet urdy one knows, but urdy as a partition line I have yet to find.

1925, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 95:

Order For Services, first class (star) same silver centre roundel but without the gold cross urdy. The star of the Order is an eight-pointed star of plain gold rays with an eight-pointed silver centre bearing a light blue[…]

2006, Guy Stair Sainty, Rafal Heydel-Mankoo, World Orders of Knighthood & Merit:


combat air patrol

en-noun

combat air patrol (plural combat air patrols)

(military, aviation) A patrolling force of fighter aircraft tasked with covering and screening a friendly asset (such as an aircraft carrier or a flight of bombers) in order to defend it from incoming hostile aircraft.


air denial

(military, aviation) A situation in aerial warfare wherein one's air force is significantly outmatched in the air by an enemy air force, but is nevertheless able to contest control of the air and prevent the enemy from achieving air supremacy.

(military, aviation) The strategies used by the weaker air force in this situation.


cyclic rate

cyclic rate (countable and uncountable, plural cyclic rates)

(firearms) The rate at which an automatic firearm will fire if its firing mechanism is held down, causing the delay between successive shots to be the time needed for the firearm's action to cycle.