Obamanation

en-noun

Obamanation (countable and uncountable, plural Obamanations)

Beck has become the chronicler of all that the Tea Party sees is wrong with the 'Obamanation' that is America today.

2012, Michael Brissenden, American Stories: Tales of Hope and Anger, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 11:

Recovery from the national emergency of these Obama years will require a huge amount of careful decision making, from domestic to international, unwinding the Obamanation the USA has been saddled with.

2012, Dan S. Wible, Halftime in America: The Challenge Years: Fighting to Stop Progressive Tyranny in the United States, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 393:

However, if four years of Jimmy Carter did not destroy our nation, four years of Obamanation won't either.

2013, Frank A. Kaye, Red Gray and Blue, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:

(US politics, derogatory) The presidency or political actions of Barack Obama, viewed as detrimental to the United States.


peace officer

(US, Canada, law enforcement) A civil law enforcement officer with a duty to maintain law and order, i.e., a bylaw officer, a police officer, a sheriff, etc.


womanifesto

womanifesto (plural womanifestos or womanifestoes)

womanifestos (plural)
womanifestoes (plural)

Two centuries later, feminist literary critics analyzed these feminist polemics, or womanifestos, as texts that embody a struggle between reason and emotion.

2002, Elaine Showalter, Inventing Herself, page 28:

On that date, whatever else we demonstrate, let us not fear to demonstrate by our presentation of womanifestos everywhere that feminism has universal potential and imperatives.

1992, Contemporary American Voices, page 316:


BAP

(nautical, military, initialism) The ship prefix for a ship from the navy of Peru.


Dane axe

Dane axes (plural)
Dane ax (alternative)

(heraldry) Representation of the weapon, used as a heraldic charge.


kite flying

If implemented, Labour's embryonic proposal is unlikely to do anything to resolve that debate, as judges will do what they are entitled to do – ignore the guidance and apply the Human Rights Act. But if Labour's proposal is, as I suspect it is, an exercise in political kite flying, then it may signal something more significant.

2014 June 5, Adam Wagner, “Human rights reform ... Labour reveals its hand”, in UK Human Rights Blog:

(politics) The tactic whereby a politician, usually through the media and often by way of an intentional leak, raises an idea to gauge the public reaction to it.


social justice warrior

social justice warrior (plural social justice warriors)

social justice warriors (plural)
social-justice warrior (alternative)
SJW (alternative)

社會正義戰士 /社会正义战士

online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes

Looking back, I was more of a cop than a social justice warrior, as people on Tumblr had come to think of me.

2021, Liat Kaplan, “I Was Your Fave Is Problematic”, in The New York Times:

(neologism, politics) A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.

How will your upper class social justice warrior cope with men swearing and pushing each other? Will she faint at the first sight of blood from a split lip? Or will she hike up her skirts, grab a hot soup spoon, and brain the first aggressor she can find?

2014, Krista D. Ball, Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes: A Regency and Steampunk Field Guide, Tyche Books Ltd., →ISBN:

But the partisan liberals in the Obama adminstration think that the rules don't apply to them. They are blind to the dragon's teeth of division and mistrust that their social justice politics sows in the body politic. They honor and celebrate the "activist," the "community organizer" and the social justice warrior, whose proud life purpose is to "raise consciousness" of injustice and marginalization.

2014, Joe Cooper, “It's Not 'Unwisdom', It's Hubris -- Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality.”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

2014, Thejendra B.S., Digital Wildfires: How to Become a Social Justice Warrior, Createspace Independent Pub, →ISBN:

Finally, social justice warriors always portray themselves—and seem to experience themselves—as actively suffering victims who need protection.

2015, Peggy Noonan, “The Trigger-Happy Generation”, in The Wall Street Journal, volume CCLXV, number 120:

It's the time you realize your son's school has turned into Social Justice Warrior boot camp, where English is “Gender Studies” and History and Geography are “Global inequality and the failures of capitalism.”

2016, Nick Adams, Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness:

(neologism, derogatory, politics) An advocate for social justice views whose actions are deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere.


ONI

Office of Naval Intelligence
w:Office of Naval Intelligence

(US military) Initialism of Office of Naval Intelligence.


tankman

tankmen (plural)
tank-man (alternative)
tank man (alternative)

From tank + -man (suffix denoting someone (possibly implied male) who is employed or holds a position in an area).

affix

(military) The (male) operator of a military tank.


Salazarism

(politics) The politics of António de Oliveira Salazar (1889–1970), Portuguese professor and politician who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968.

salazarisme

the politics of Portuguese prime minister António de Oliveira Salazar


AIP

air independent propulsion
air independent propulsion#English

(navy, submarines) Abbreviation of air independent propulsion (a method of propelling submarines without access to the Earth's atmosphere while using combustion engines (internal or external combustion engines)).


SYRIZA

From Greek ΣΥΡΙΖΑ (SYRIZA), initialism of συνασπισμός (synaspismós, “coalition”) + ριζοσπαστικός (rizospastikós, “radical”) + αριστερά (aristerá, “left”).

(politics) the Coalition of the Radical Left, a Greek political party


molehunter

In the late 1960s here, in a room booked for the occasion, molehunter Peter Wright made 'one more try' at breaking Alister Watson, the defence scientist believed to have given secrets to the Soviets for decades.

1994, Roy Berkeley, A Spy's London, page 306:

(espionage) One who investigates and attempts to identify a mole (agent who has infiltrated an organisation).


platformism

From platform + -ism, after the 1926 Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists draft.

(anarchism) An anarchist tendency stressing the need for organizations that can influence working-class and peasant movements through ideological and tactical unity, collective responsibility, and federalism.


superbill

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Medical offices may store superbills for record-keeping purposes, in case they need to be referenced in the future. A good example may be tracking a procedure that did not get posted because it was missed on the superbill at the time charges were entered.

2012, Cindy Correa, Getting Started in the Computerized Medical Office, page 228:

(healthcare, insurance) A detailed invoice listing medical treatments and their prices.


street money

Mr Davis: Would it be feasible to use the taxpayers['] money without any checking as you're talking about here for what is commonly known as walk-around money or street money? Because under the FEC, that is now legal...
Mr Lott: ... I guess since walk-around money is now considered legal, I guess th[e]y could use that. Some States do rely very heavily on walk-around money in their primaries and general elections as the record will show.

1979, “Statement of Hon. Trent Lott...”, in Hearings before the Committee on House Administration ... on H.R. 1 and Related Legislation, page 264:

walk-around money
walk-around money#English

(US politics, colloquial) Synonym of walk-around money.


matristic

en-adj

matristic (comparative more matristic, superlative most matristic)

more matristic (comparative)
most matristic (superlative)

(feminism) Being or relating to a prehistoric female-led society based around Mother Goddess worship.


quasi-federalist

a quasi-federalist party

a quasi-federalist system

(politics) Being or supporting a system of government that appears to be devolved as a federation, but in fact still centrally controlled.


sumotori

sumotoris (plural)
sumotori (plural)
sumōtori (alternative)

His past was evident in his small office, crowded with his wrestling trophies and certificates, but most intriguing to Hiroshi were the photos of sumotori that lined the wall—their bulky, imposing bodies filling the space around them.

2007, Gail Tsukiyama, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms: A Novel, page 47:


put him in to get him out

Coined by Irish revolutionary Michael Collins.

coin

(Ireland, politics, historical) An election poster catchphrase, and rallying cry, for imprisoned Republicans to be elected to parliament.


Grexit

We raise our estimate of the likelihood of Greek EA exit (‘Grexit’) to 50% over the next 18 months, from 25-30% previously. This is mostly because we consider the willingness of EA creditors to continue providing further support to Greece despite Greek non-compliance with programme conditionality to have fallen substantially.

2012 February 6, Willem Buiter, Ebrahim Rahbari, “Rising Risks of Greek Euro Area Exit”, in Willem H. Buiter, archived from the original on 2016-08-16:

Citigroup economists Willem Buiter and Ebrahim Rabhari revised their predictions of a Greek exit from the eurozone—or "Grexit"—in the next 18 months up to 50 percent from 25-30 percent in November.

2012 February 7, Simone Foxman, “CITI'S BUITER: There's A 50% Chance Of A Greek Exit From The Eurozone And Here's How It Would Happen”, in Business Insider:

The bankers, however, were alarmingly precise: amid all the speculation about Grexit, they told me, banks are increasingly reordering their European exposure along national lines, in terms of asset-liability matching (ALM), just in case the region splits apart.

2012 May 25, Gillian Tett, “Beware Hidden Costs as Banks Eye ‘Grexit’”, in Financial Times:

Throughout 2012, economists speculated on the likelihood of the Grexit by 2013.

2013, Words You Should Know: 2013, F+W Media, page 100:

Around the middle of 2012, speculation was rife about the likelihood of the so-called Grexit.

2014, Alison McDonnell, “Solidarity, Flexibility, and the Euro-Crisis: Where do Principles Fit In?”, in The EU After Lisbon, page 72:

Grexit, in short, would have left the way open to German monetary independence.

2014, Jonathan Story, “The Euro Crisis and German Primacy”, in The Eurozone Crisis and the Future of Europe, page 117:

Regarding the relationship with the EU after the Grexit he remains agnostic.

2015, Stavros Mavroudeas, Greek Capitalism in Crisis: Marxist analyses, page 91:

(politics) The potential withdrawal of Greece from the Eurozone.


light cavalry

(military) A military unit consisting of lightly armed and lightly armored troops mounted on horses.


heavy cavalry

en-noun

heavy cavalry (countable and uncountable, plural heavy cavalries)

(military) A military unit consisting of troops mounted on large powerful horses, and often equipped with armor as well as either swords, maces, lances, or battle axes.


Chrislamic

en-adj

Chrislamic (comparative more Chrislamic, superlative most Chrislamic)

more Chrislamic (comparative)
most Chrislamic (superlative)

“Commie Chrislamist goon @annavetticad also giving film reviews. Her hatred of Hinduism is quite appalling.”

(India, slang, politics, derogatory, religious slur) Associated with Christian missionaries or Islamist groups; opposed to Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.


Johnson hole

Johnson holes (plural)
Jack Johnson hole (alternative)

Named, for its size, after Jack Johnson (1878-1946), the world heavyweight boxing champion until 1915.

And to his immediate front, below the shelving ramp, a circular calm water graced the deep of a Johnson hole […]

1937, David Jones, In Parenthesis, Part 3

A running joke is the supposed general who has fallen into a Johnson hole, and Bert's anxiety about whether he should ‘let him drift or fish 'im out’.

2005, Gordon Williams, British Theatre in the Great War, page 196:

(military slang, now historical) A large shell crater during the First World War.


battery acid

en-noun

battery acid (countable and uncountable, plural battery acids)

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Juanita Doe

(US, law, law enforcement) A Latina who is unknown, a Jane Doe of Latin descent.


Juan Doe

(US, law, law enforcement) A Latino male who is unknown, a John Doe of Latin descent.


chevronelle

(heraldry, rare) Alternative form of chevronel.


fimbriation

fimbriation (countable and uncountable, plural fimbriations)

(uncountable, heraldry, flags) The use of a thin stripe of a contrasting tincture (colour) around a charge, ordinary or stripe in order to make it stand out from the background.

(countable, heraldry, flags) Such a stripe.


crusily

(heraldry) Semé (strewn) with cross crosslets.


semé-de-lis

semy-de-lis (alternative)
semy-de-lys (alternative)
semé-de-lys (alternative)

(heraldry) Semé (strewn) with fleurs-de-lis.


platé

(heraldry) Alternative form of platy (“semé (strewn) with plates”).


annulletty

(heraldry, uncommon) Semé (strewn) with annulets.


tortelly

Crest[:] On a grassy mount a lion rampant Or tortelly supporting by the forepaws a torch Gules banded and chained Or enflamed proper.

1972, arms awarded by the College of Arms to Iain Ball (quoted e.g. by The Heraldry Society, "Members' Roll of Arms" / archived)

Argent, tortelly gules. […]

2020 November 13, arsaraldica (Instagram account), "Variations of the field (semy)

[…] within a bordure Or tortelly of nine.

, Heraldicon - Arms of the Empire of Jaluha Escutcheon Only (archived)

(heraldry) Semé (strewn) with torteaus (red roundels).


tergiant

Tortoise [:] this animal is usually borne displayed tergiant in fesse, which position is sometimes described as passant. The term gradient seems to be used to mean the same, and tergiant seems to be implied though not expressed.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 578:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tergiant.

(heraldry) Showing its back, having its back turned to the viewer.


swadeshi

PIE word
 *swé
Borrowed from Hindi स्वदेशी (svadeśī, “nationalist, patriotic; policy of nationalist self-sufficiency, swadeshi; proponent of the swadeshi movement”), from स्वदेश (svadeś, “one’s own country”) + -ई (-ī, suffix forming adjectives, or forming nouns meaning a person who does an action indicated by the stem). स्वदेश is derived from Sanskrit स्वदेश (svadeśa), from स्व (sva, “his or her own”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“(pronoun) self”)) + देश (deśa, “country; point, place”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”)).

der

The Swadeshi movement in India is one which in certain of its aspects can be regarded with much sympathy. A spirit of patriotism is excellent, and the endeavour to engender and foster it, provided it is made along legitimate lines, calls for encouragement and not condemnation.

1906 September, “[Editorial Notes.] Missionaries Assaulted in a Swadeshi Riot.”, in The Church Missionary Intelligencer: A Monthly Journal of Missionary Information, volume XXXI (New Series; volume LVII overall), London: Church Missionary Society, […], →OCLC, page 713:

The Swadeshi movement, in its bad sense—the boycotting of foreign goods—has had no effect on imports as a whole, and even the articles specifically aimed at, cotton goods and sugar, have entered to an unparalleled extent in the last three years. The good side of the Swadeshi movement, the development of indigenous industries, is seen in the increased imports of textile machinery and metals.

1907 July, “Notes on Colonial and Foreign Banking, Finance and Commerce. [Indian Foreign Trade.]”, in The Bankers’, Insurance Managers’ & Agents’ Magazine, volume LXXXIV, number 760, London: Waterlow and Sons […], →OCLC, page 61:

The cry of the Indian "Insurgent" to-day is "Shiksha," (education,) education in all its phases and branches, both extensive and intensive; "Swadeshi," (home industries) and "Swaraj" (self-government).

1911 December 30, Basanta Koomar Roy, “Insurgency in India”, in Robert M[arion] La Follette, editor, La Follette’s Weekly Magazine, volume III, number 52, Madison, Wis.: Robert M. La Follette Company, →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

And yet long before this popular ebullition of excitement, I myself had given a thousand rupees, when I had not five rupees to call my own, to open a Swadeshi store and courted banter and bankruptcy.

1921 March 5, Rabindranath Tagore, “Chicago, March 5, 1921”, in C[harles] F[reer] A[ndrews], editor, Letters from Abroad, Triplicane, Madras, Tamil Nadu: S. Ganesan, published 1924, →OCLC, page 78:

My work should be, and therefore is, to organise the production of handspun cloth, and to find means for the disposal of the Khadi thus produced. [...] I swear by this form of Swadeshi, because through it I can provide work to the semi-starved, semi-employed women of India.

1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “An Instructive Dialogue”, in Mahadev Haribhai Desai and Pyarelal Nair, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume II, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC, part V, page 572:

The anti-partition agitation with its vehement invective, its appeals to Hindu sentiment, its cry that Bengal as motherland, once rich and famous, had been torn in two despite the protests of her children, its proposals for enforcing a punitive boycott of foreign goods and supplanting them entirely by "swadeshi" indigenous products, its enlistment of students and school-boys in picketing operations, gave ample cover for the sedulous teaching of revolutionary doctrines.

1932, H[enry] Verney Lovett, “The Rise of an Extremist Party”, in H[enry] H[erbert] Dodwell, editor, The Cambridge History of India, volumes VI (The Indian Empire 1858–1918 […]), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 551:

When H[erbert] H[ope] Risley—writing in 1909 just after the swadeshi movement had introduced the possibility of mass agitational politics as well as he specter of communal violence in Bengal—contemplated the political implications of the caste system, he confirmed British assumption by declaring that caste opposed nationality and would hinder the growth of nationalist politics.

1996, Nicholas B. Dirks, “The Conversion of Caste: Location, Translation, and Appropriation”, in Peter van der Veer, editor, Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 115:

Mahatma Gandhi was not only a politician but an economic, social and religious reformer too. He felt that if swaraj or self-government was to mean anything for the dumb millions of the country the national movement must touch all aspects of the villager's life. He also developed his scheme of the revival of charkha and the development of swadeshi.

2009, G. R. Madan, “Rural Community Development”, in Indian Social Problems: Social Disorganization and Reconstruction, 6th edition, volume 2 (Social Work), New Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Allied Publishers, published 2012, →ISBN, page 192:

With tension all around, the police laid siege to large areas of the city and started raiding various homes and educational institutions and whosoever was even remotely connected with nationalism and swadeshi were promptly arrested.

2013, Samir Bhattacharya, “The Honour of the Country Comes First Always and Everytime^([sic])”, in Nothing But!: Book 2: The Long Road to Freedom, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Partridge India, →ISBN, page 164:

The first Indian Industrial Conference meeting in 1905, bringing together industrialists from all over India, decided to "foster and extend the use of such manufactures in India in preference to foreign goods." That demand intersected with the emerging Swadeshi movement, which advocated Indian self-sufficiency, especially in cottons, and symbolized the confluence of cotton entrepreneurs and the emerging nationalist political elites.

2014, Sven Beckert, “The Return of the Global South”, in Empire of Cotton: A Global History, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, published November 2015, →ISBN, page 420:

Is this news? Not to [Mahatma] Gandhi, whose swadeshi campaigns of local self-reliance drew support away from the dominating colonial paradigm of pauperizing indigenous populations by making them producers of raw materials and consumers of value-added products, [...]

2014, Tom H. Hastings, “Part 2: Promote Nonviolent Conflict Management”, in A New Era of Nonviolence: The Power of Civil Society over War, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, section I (Ending Civil Wars), page 78:

(India, economics, politics, also attributively) A policy of nationalist self-sufficiency in India, involving the revival and promotion of domestic production and (originally) the boycott of British products.


Charlie Papa

Initialism CP as expressed in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Head over to the Charlie Papa and fetch me the latest timetable.


vulned

a pelican or, vulned gu.

1842, John Burke, Bernard Burke, A General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, page 74:

Or a pelican in piety ppr. REIDHEUGH, Culte-bragan. Per chev. vert and erm. in chief a pelican or vulned ppr. JOYNER. [...] Quarterly per fess indented sa. and or in the first quarter a pelican of the second vulning itself ppr.

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 306:

Gu. a pelican feeding her young arg. vulned ppr. (4th quarter).

1893, James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 190:

(heraldry, especially of a pelican) Wounded and bleeding, especially from the breast.


plurinominal

As Girard notes, this non-anonymous rule is a single-round plurinominal election in which the voter can support as many candidates as he wishes, hence exhibiting the basic features of Approval Voting.

2010, Jean-François Laslier, M. Remzi Sanver, Handbook on Approval Voting, →ISBN, page 7:

(politics) Nominating or electing more than one representative at once.

(politics) Elected at large rather than from a specific district.


Snider

The rifle is named from the surname of its inventor.

(military, historical) A breech-loading rifle formerly used in the British service.


Cobdenism

From Cobden + -ism, after Richard Cobden.

The progress of tonight's debate makes one profoundly conscious of the constructive shortcomings of the Cobdenism of today.

1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906

(politics, now historical) A policy of free trade and international peace and cooperation.


nahiyah

nahiyahs (plural)
nahiya (alternative)
nahiye (alternative)

From Arabic نَاحِيَة (nāḥiya, “region, district; local administrative division”) directly and via cognates in other languages such as Ottoman Turkish ناحیه (nâhiye).

bor

(politics) A local administrative division consisting of a number of small towns or villages in some Muslim countries, including (historical) parts of Europe under the Ottoman Empire.


aversant

[...] bore, sable three sinister gauntlets aversant [...]

1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Others, page 204:

Gules, a fess azure between 4 hands (mains) sinister aversant or.

1979, W. E. Hampton, Memorials of the Wars of the Roses: A Biographical Guide:

(heraldry) Turned to show the back: said of a hand (or gauntlet).


purity test

To begin, we return to Will: “What started as a critical reading of a children's book became a social justice 'racial equity' purity test full of hypocrisy”.

2019, Jessica S. Mitchell, Erin N. Vaughn, Participatory Literacy Practices for P-12 Classrooms in the Digital Age, page 211:

In retrospect, this was the height (or perhaps the nadir) of a kind of purity-test politics that was making some swing voters, including Rogan, feel less at home in the Democratic coalition.

2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

(politics) A rigid standard on a specific issue by which a politician or other figure is evaluated.


actorness

(European Union politics) Quality of being an actor (an agent performing an act).


gedunk

The word was used by U.S. Marines stationed in China in the 20s and 30s to denote candy or sweets the Marines would give to their girlfriends.

(US, military, slang) A snack; a junk food item.

(US, military, slang) A canteen or snack bar.


Leo Belgicus

(heraldry) A map of the Low Countries drawn in the shape of a lion and sometimes used as a heraldic device.


BOG

boots on the ground
boots on the ground#English

(military) Initialism of boots on the ground.


Obomber

This was definitely staged event intended
to show how caring Obomber is..

2013 October 25, seth...@aol.com, “Re: Phony business: Obama's fainting woman a hoax”, in independent-progressives (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, US politics) An epithet of Barack Obama.


Black Panther

For example, does that huge Black Panther there in the hallway, the one shaking hands with Felicia Bernstein herself, the one with the black leather coat and the dark glasses and the absolutely unbelievable Afro, Fuzzy Wuzzy-scale in fact—is he, a Black Panther, going on to pick up a Roquefort cheese morsel rolled in crushed nuts from off the tray, from a maid in uniform, and just pop it down the gullet without so much as missing a beat of Felicia's perfect Mary Astor voice. . . .

1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:

(US politics, historical) A member of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982.


hammer fist

hammer fists (plural)
hammer-fist (alternative)
hammerfist (alternative)

(martial arts) A blow with a clenched fist, usually using the side of the hand or wrist


MLSE

military local service engagement#English

(military) Abbreviation of Military Local Service Engagement.


sagari

(sumo) The stiffened silk fronds inserted in the front of a mawashi.


pissaphone

Blend of piss + megaphone, from its shape.

(military, slang, vulgar) A urinal consisting of a funnel set into the ground.


WOFTAM

waste of fucking time
waste of time#English

(military, slang) Initialism of waste of fucking time and money.


Willy Pete

White phosphorus
white phosphorus#English


pop smoke

en-verb

pop smoke (third-person singular simple present pops smoke, present participle popping smoke, simple past and past participle popped smoke)

pops smoke (present singular third-person)
popping smoke (participle present)
popped smoke (participle past)
popped smoke (past)

(military slang) To call for air extract with a smoke grenade.

(military slang) To throw smoke grenades as a means of cover or escape during battle.


Barney-style

After the dinosaur character in the children's educational TV show Barney & Friends.

(military slang) In extremely simplified language.


Global South

the Global South (canonical)
global south (alternative)

First used in a political sense in 1969.

Where and what is the Global South? If you ask people on the street, many would probably not have the faintest idea. In everyday parlance and mass media, Global South has hardly become a household term. In academic and (global) policy circles, though, the term is used with much more gusto.

2015, Andrea Hollington, Oliver Tappe, Tijo Salverda, Tobias Schwarz, Concepts of the Global South. Voices from around the world., Global South Studies Center Cologne, archived from the original on 2016-09-04:

Countries from the global south, including Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – mega-diverse countries home to the world’s three largest rainforests – wanted governments to agree to the creation of a new biodiversity fund as part of the Montreal pact to pay for new conservation targets.

2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:

A paragon from the Global South, as no one I know who lives there calls it, would be very 21st century, very au courant.

2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22:

(geopolitics) A region predominantly composed of the developing countries of Africa, Latin America, and Asia excluding Japan and South Korea, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North.


recoil pad

(firearms) A soft rubber (or similar) attachment added to the butt of a long firearm to absorb some of the recoil.


I.C.S.R.

(politics) Initialism of The International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence.


ICSR

(politics) Alternative form of I.C.S.R..


loaded march

(military) A movement on foot by soldiers who must, in order to satisfy a the requirement of the drill, march long distances at full speed while carrying a full load of supplies.


Amcit

In the last seven weeks, seven Amcits were arrested for national security concerns and violations of immigration laws (Ref A-E), compared to only six in the entire four months prior.

2011, Alexander Star, Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy:


PVS

(US, military) Abbreviation of personal viewing sight: a night-vision device.


centrifugalism

(politics) The advocacy of a centrifugal state.


ARCIC

w:United States Army Capabilities Integration Center

(US, military) Initialism of United States Army Capabilities Integration Center.


pool spray

When we are not holding we are most likely "rolling"—hustling to get on a bus to go to things like a "bilat pool spray" (a photo-op of a bilateral meeting between the president and some world leader).

2002 July 2, Martha Brant, “West Wing Story: Pool-Duty Survival Kit”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2015-03-04:

Pool spray is the term for an event where a representative pool of journalists is brought in to record the president meeting with a foreign leader or discussing a policy initiative.

[2010 February 4, Peter Baker, “Few News Conferences, but Still Taking Questions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

First comes the “pool spray,” where the two leaders exchange pleasantries before the cameras.

2010 November 13, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Reporter’s Notebook: Heartfelt Moments on an Up-and-Down Global Trip”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-03-04:

At an international summit […] [t]he press is let in only for a few moments at the beginning or the end in what is known as a "pool spray." Sometimes the world leaders say a few words; other times, they pretend not to notice the reporters and keep interacting in a stilted way.

2014 November 16, David Nakamura, “Watch: President Obama reacts to media scrum in Brisbane”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-03-04:

(US politics, journalism) An event in which photographers and other members of the news media are allowed to visit briefly with the US President or other top US government officials, especially on the occasion of a meeting with leaders or high-level officials from other countries.


AGI

en-noun

AGI (countable and uncountable, plural AGIs)

AGIs (plural)
A.G.I. (alternative)
A. G. I. (alternative)

(espionage) Initialism of auxiliary gathering intelligence.


speed bag

speed bags (plural)
speedbag (alternative)
speed-bag (alternative)

(boxing) A small air-filled punching bag anchored at the top to a rebound platform parallel to the ground.

(military, aviation) An improvised airdropped resupply pack, composed of food and water, ammunition, and other supplies, stuffed into a duffle bag or bodybag.


counterembowed

(heraldry) Bent, curved or arched in two directions, both to the left and to the right, or both upwards and downwards.


hybrid war

Neologism derived from hybrid warfare; usage increased during the 2014-present Ukrainian war.

(military) A war that comprises the use of conventional and nonconventional means by at least one side, which officially denies involvement.


armed conflict

armed conflict (countable and uncountable, plural armed conflicts)

(international law, military) A contested incompatibility that entails the use of armed force between two parties including a territory, the government of a state, or both.


POG

POG (countable and uncountable, plural POGs)

(US, military, slang, countable) Acronym of person other than grunt, a member of military staff other than infantry.


gynotician

While we are left to decide in private what constitutes the end of life, the gynoticians of our state have decided that a heartbeat alone constitutes its beginning.

2013, Karen Marotta, "Ohio gynoticians" [letter to the editor], Milford-Miami Advertiser, 17 July 2013, page A10

Millenials believe Kansas "gynoticians" like Rep. Allan Rothlisberg should stop playing doctor when it comes to individuals' personal, private decisions.

2014, Katherine Gwynn, "Abortion access" [letter to the editor]", Lawrence Journal-World, 25 January 2014, page 9A

Ohio’s self-styled “gynoticians” (politicians) are at it once again. In their neverending quest to chip away at a woman’s right to determine her own reproductive destiny, House Republicans have introduced House Bill 69 to unconstitutionally restrict access to a legal, safe and vital medical procedure in this state.

2015, Brian Yeh, "Bill would limit women’s say in reproduction" [letter to the editor], The Columbus Dispatch, 28 February 2015

(US, politics, derogatory) A politician viewed as interfering with women's private medical decisions by lobbying for restrictions on abortion and/or contraception.


bladejob

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) An act of blading, or intentionally cutting to provoke bleeding.


ALPR

ALPR (countable and uncountable, plural ALPRs)

California-based Vigilant […] has partnered with a range of governments in Texas, California, and Georgia to provide their police with a suite of ALPR systems to use on patrol, along with access to Vigilant's database.

2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 6, in Atlas of AI […] , →ISBN:

"Surveillance networks based on ALPR technology can track people’s movements retroactively with a simple search query," he wrote.

2023 July 24, Chris Eberhart, “NY police used AI to track drivers on highways as attorney questions legality”, in Fox News:

(US, law enforcement, uncountable) Initialism of automated/automatic license plate recognition.

We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date.

2023 February 13, Chad Marlow & Jay Stanley, “How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers”, in ACLU:

(US, law enforcement, countable) Initialism of automated/automatic license plate reader.


cup discharger

(firearms) A cup-shaped bracket, mounted on the end of a rifle barrel, used to propel hand grenades.


national interest

national interest (plural national interests)

While it was not in the national interest to disclose details of the exhaustive plans made to enable the railway organisations to meet possible eventualities, certain information was made public in July indicating some of the activities in which the railways were directly concerned and the steps they were taking.

1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 313:

(politics) An economic, military, or cultural goal of a country.


safetied

He looked at his guys; nervous and fingering their safetied weapons. One of them hunched over and vomited

2014, The Twilight of Liberty, page 205:

Others had unloaded and permanently safetied weapons on their arms. Thanks to nanobot enhancements, others were now extraordinarily powerful

(firearms) On which the safety mechanism is engaged.


isodrome

(naval) A method of moving a fleet from one formation to another, the direction usually being changed eight points, by means of paths of equal length for each ship.


catch-allism

This tendency may enhance an electoral strategy of parties which is often called catch-allism: parties seek to accomplish a wide electoral appeal aimed at vote maximization.

1994, David Hanley, Christian Democracy in Europe, →ISBN, page 39:

Not all of these are wholly independent of the parties, of course, in that at least some of the ostensibly external shocks that have impacted on parties in recent years have their origin in the initial shift towards catch-allism.

2004, Peter Mair, Wolfgang C Müller, Fritz Plasser, Political Parties and Electoral Change, →ISBN, page 272:

I have argued above that with catch-allism and the restriction of policy scopes many of these aspects have become more vulnerable in most European parties.

2012, Klaus Detterbeck, Multi-Level Party Politics in Western Europe, →ISBN, page 43:

(politics) A position that lacks strong commitments or ideology.


toc emma

toc emmas (plural)
toch emma (alternative)
tock emma (alternative)

After dark the toch-emmas are going to break the Boche wire and we'll cut a passage in ours.

'Field artillery?' 'No. Toc-emmas.' He was referring to trench-mortars.

2010, Rebecca Wilby, In Different Skies, page 180:

(military slang, now historical) Trench mortar.


most favored nation

most favored nation (plural most favored nations)

most favored nations (plural)
most favoured nation (alternative)

(trade, diplomacy) A nation accorded a certain level of treatment in international trade. When a nation A is a most favored nation of another nation, B, then B undertakes not to treat A any less favorably (in terms of taxes, exports, etc.) than any of B's other most favored nations.


buffer state

The conflict was finally settled in 1828 with the creation of the buffer state of Uruguay, but the prestige of the emperor had suffered a further blow as a result of this reverse, as it was perceived.

1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 249:

(geopolitics) A nation lying between potentially hostile nations.


tin hat

They could live on jerked goat, the strong black coffee they called 'boiler compound,' and hash cooked in a tin hat.

2007, Winston Groom, 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls:

(military, slang, historical) The steel helmet worn by soldiers during World War I.


file closer

(military) An officer posted at the rear of a line, or on the flank of a column, of soldiers, to rectify mistakes and ensure steadiness and promptness in the ranks.


hip lock

(wrestling) A lock in which a close grip is obtained and a fall attempted by a heave over the hip.


in right of

The Queen of Canada in Right of Quebec is suing the Queen of Canada in Right of Newfoundland.

(law, government, often capitalized) jurisdiction of a person who is head of state of more than one state


infight

en-verb

infight (third-person singular simple present infights, present participle infighting, simple past and past participle infought)

infights (present singular third-person)
infighting (participle present)
infought (participle past)
infought (past)

Apparently a back-formation from infighting, perhaps continuing Middle English infighten (“to attack”), from Old English infiht, infeoht (“an attack made upon a person by another in the same house or between members of a household”), equivalent to in- + fight.

Be prepared to slip and duck his jab to infight or to counter with a quick punch to the head or body.

2004, Mark Hatmaker, Doug Werner, Boxing Mastery: Advanced Technique, Tactics, and Strategies from the Sweet Science, →ISBN, page 213:

Even if you're giving up reach in order to infight, standing at the end of your opponent's punch (impact position) isn't the way to do it.

2007, Alan Lachica, Doug Werner, Boxing's Ten Commandments, →ISBN, page 29:

Walker tried hard to close with his opponent, and infight, but by using both hands to good advantage Fus. Scott held his own.

2003, Peter B. Kyne, Captain Scraggs; Or, the Green-Pea Pirates, →ISBN, page 252:

"In a minute," said the commodore faintly. "He's so good I hate to hurt him. But I'll infight him to a finish."

1929, St. George's Gazette - Volume 47, page 247:

(boxing) To box while extremely close to an opponent


disappearing carriage

en-noun

disappearing carriage (plural disappearing carriages)

(military, historical) A carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection.


water tender

(US, naval, historical) A first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom, who supplies the boilers with water, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc.


bodycam

bodycams (plural)
body cam (alternative)

I'll wear a bodycam – a copcam, which I'll have to get from the SPD.

2017, Bharti Kirchner, Season of Sacrifice: First in a new Seattle-based mystery series:

The use of bodycams has been mooted for years and the English FA was given permission by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body that determines the rules of the game, to begin a trial in February.

2023 April 4, Philip Buckingham, “‘The ref’s got a camera on’ – the bodycams being used to keep officials safe”, in The New York Times:

The sheriff’s office released a compilation of bodycam footage Friday from deputies at the scene that shows them handcuffing Earl and pinning him down for more than 20 minutes as he struggles and repeatedly shouts for help.

2024 September 30, Chelsea Bailey, “‘Take his pulse, he’s blue’: Bodycam footage shows fatal encounter between epileptic Indiana man and first responders”, in CNN:

(chiefly law enforcement) A body camera.


Banzhaf power index

Banzhaf power index (plural Banzhaf power indexes)

(mathematics, politics) An index defined by the probability of changing an outcome of a vote where voting rights are not necessarily equally divided among the voters or shareholders.


post-Gregg

(US politics) Subsequent to Gregg v. Georgia, a 1976 legal case that reaffirmed the United States Supreme Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States.


pre-Furman

(US politics) Prior to Furman v. Georgia, a 1972 legal case that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty, leading to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States until 1976.


unmarked car

(law enforcement) A police car that has no markings to distinguish it from a civilian car.


cash grab

cash grabs (plural)
cashgrab (alternative)
cash-grab (alternative)

Registered in the OED as 'a tax intended to discourage the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, esp. one levied on the burning of fossil fuels', in some of our blog discussions carbon tax is repeatedly referred to as a cash grab.

2012, Jason Hughes, SAGE Internet Research Methods, →ISBN, page 224:

But this governance exercise quickly degenerated into a cash grab exercise (fundamentally corrupting the original purposes), when deficit and debt reduction became the categorical imperative.

2010, Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet, The Black Hole of Public Administration, →ISBN, page 294:

(politics) Legislation that serves primarily the purpose of generating revenue.


keikogi

(clothing, martial arts) A set of uniform worn while training in some Japanese martial arts


collateral damage

collateral damage (usually uncountable, plural collateral damages)

A certain amount of collateral damage and destruction to the surrounding environment has always been viewed as a necessary but generally undesirable by-product of military conflict.

1999, Dennis L. Soden, The Environmental Presidency, →ISBN, page 237:

But the most critical tension concerns the need to balance minimal own-casualties and low collateral damage with operational effectiveness.

2004, Alice Hills, Future War in Cities: Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma, →ISBN, page 197:

And, most importantly, there may come a point when, by taking measures to improve the security of the attacking force, the increase in the expected collateral damage outweighs the anticipated military advantage.

2009, Ian Henderson, The Contemporary Law of Targeting, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

(military, euphemistic) Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that is the unintended result of military operations.

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs


mustahfiz

(military, historical) A member of the territorial militia of the Ottoman Empire.


dog robber

There are many conjectures about the origin of this term, ranging from the peacetime occupation of the title character in The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, to the use of the term dog for enlisted men, hence someone who took the best of everything away from the dogs to give to the officers. The most likely conjecture is that it comes from a 19th-century term for a contemptible person who stole scraps of leftover food that would otherwise be fed to dogs.

He had detailed from his company a jovial Irish lad as orderly — the regular army name for the position is dog-robber.

1892, Stanton P. Allen, Down in Dixie: Life in a Cavalry Regiment in the War Days, from the Wilderness to Appomattox, page 488:

He had a pretty good assignment as the dog-robber, or orderly, for Lieutenant Friel.

2001, Clint Lamm, Tales From the Picket Line, →ISBN, page 103:

I'll call my dog robber and have him meet you there—I don't want either of these messages destroyed.

2011, R.D. Bullard, Civil War III, →ISBN, page 13:

(military, slang) An officer's orderly or servant; a factotum; Someone whose job is to run errands for an officer.

Trading "enemy flags" for weapons proved to be an effective way of fulfilling some of the requirements, but the dog robber was still using his talents to obtain the more difficult to find items.

1999, Kregg P. J. Jorgenson, The ghosts of the highlands: 1st Cav LRRPs in Vietnam, 1966-67, →ISBN, page 73:

Harbert was our dog robber (scrounger), had been since he joined the outfit in Guadalcanal.

2003, G Holcomb, No Quarter Asked No Quarter Given, →ISBN, page 80:

He not only was very good at his job, he also was an old soldier and an accomplished dog robber, which.meant that his crew never lacked for any necessary equipment.

2011, Arthur Hood, The Ghost Cabin Mission, →ISBN, page 15:

(military, slang) One whose role is to acquire scarce goods, from military equipment to liquor or perfume, often staying barely within the letter of the law.

My friend led the way, clad in his jodhpurs, on his trusty black stallion, and I followed, wearing 'dog-robbers' — both of us with haversacks containing our gear for a Spanish weekend.

1959, Naval Review (London), volume 47, page 335:

Then he got up with a sigh, changed into dog robbers and went into the town to get drunk.

(military, slang, in the plural) Civilian clothing; mufti.


on the wrong side of history

Washington reporters . . . were seen by the president's people as on the wrong side of history—both technologically and politically.

1993 June 27, “The 'Jurassic Park' Press”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2015-04-21:

As gays have moved into the mainstream, Republicans have landed on the wrong side of history.

2007 June 14, Michael Kinsley, “The Quiet Gay Revolution”, in Time, retrieved 2015-04-21:

The Roberts court has too often been on the wrong side of history, most pointedly in its retrograde refusal to protect the right to vote.

2014 June 25, Linda Greenhouse, “The Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Cellphone Privacy”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-04-21:

(idiomatic, usually politics, derogatory) Having policies or practices that are perceived as not progressive or enlightened; behaving in a manner that reflects out-of-date or disapproved opinions.


antitheocratic

en-adj

antitheocratic (comparative more antitheocratic, superlative most antitheocratic)

more antitheocratic (comparative)
most antitheocratic (superlative)


trench art

(art, military) Any decorative item made by soldiers, prisoners of war, or civilians, where the manufacture is directly linked to armed conflict or its consequences.


service cap

(military) A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn.


PAS

Parti Islam Se-Malaysia
Parti Islam Se-Malaysia#English

(Malaysia, politics) Initialism of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (“Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party”), an Islamist and conservative political party in Malaysia.

Parti Islam Se-Malaysia

Partidul Acțiune și Solidaritate#English

(politics) Initialism of Partidul Acțiune și Solidaritate (“Party of Action and Solidarity”), a liberal political party in Moldova.


déculassement

en-noun

déculassement (countable and uncountable, plural déculassements)

(firearms) An accidental blowing off of, or other serious damage to, the breechblock of a gun.

(firearms) The removal of the breechblock for the purpose of disabling the gun.


OODA

(Observe, Orient, Decide, Act): Coined by USAF instructor John Boyd

(military) Initialism of Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act, a decision cycle for military combat operations and other processes.

Observe

OODA (Observer, Orienter, Décider, Agir)


tac-au-tac

From French riposter du tac au tac (“to parry”), where tac imitates the sound made by the steel.

bor

(fencing) The parry which is connected with a riposte.

(fencing) A rapid series of attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.


torpedo catcher

en-noun

torpedo catcher (plural torpedo catchers)

(military, nautical) A small, fast gunboat for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.


woman-born-woman

women-born-women (plural)
womyn-born-womyn (alternative)
WBW (alternative)

Coined by second-wave feminists to distinguish cisgender women from transgender women.

To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe. But at Stayfree her babe outfit (long hair, big shirt, leggings, flats) makes her feel like an interloper—like some rude woman-born-woman intent on boycotting femininity because she can take it for granted.

(feminism) A cisgender woman; a cis woman.


NOID

(US, government) Abbreviation of notice of intent to deny.


forecharge

forecharges (plural)
fore-charge (alternative)

The fore-charges were individually packed in thin metal containers and loaded in the gun that way;

2014, Arthur J Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow:

(weaponry) The shot in the forward part of a firearm cartridge.


Reagan Democrat

Reagan Democrat (plural Reagan Democrats)

Undoubtedly, there were some who thought that the party, once defined and consolidated, would appeal to “Reagan Democrats,” but there were also many who thought that the liberal groups dominating the party could easily splinter into diverse interest groups if not afforded the opportunity to come together as one.

2020, Theodore F. Sheckels, The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948–2016, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 103:

(US politics, historical) A moderate and conservative Democrat, in the south and midwest, many of whom had previously supported conservative Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace for President of the USA, who supported the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.


mad minute

Then the Major got into the game and launched rockets at them, and we all had a few mad minutes having target practice on the Lionel train set.

(UK, military) A test of marksmanship with fifteen aimed shots at a twelve-inch target at 200 yards within one minute.


gunbird

"A gunbird's passing right above us!" warned an edgy Pellip.

2010, Patrick Wageman, Crossing the Rubicon:

The landing went unopposed, with no VC/NVA fire. The gunbirds ran around the local area looking for suitable targets and generally shot up every tree line and bushy area.

(military, slang) A military helicopter.


unbrigaded

(military) That does not form part of a brigade.


unass

en-verb

unass (third-person singular simple present unasses, present participle unassing, simple past and past participle unassed)

unasses (present singular third-person)
unassing (participle present)
unassed (participle past)
unassed (past)

We “unassed” the barracks and slept outside on the lawn the remainder of the night.

2005, Herman Flora, Miz Suzie's Boy, page 248:

(US military slang, transitive) To get out of (a vehicle or building).


Barnburner

(historical, US politics, slang) A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, around the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848.


BUF

(fascism) Initialism of British Union of Fascists, a political group of the 1930s.


TUSC

w:Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

(UK politics) Acronym of Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.


CNN

Clinton News Network
Clinton News Network#English

(humorous, derogatory, US politics) Initialism of Clinton News Network.


Milifandom

Abby says the Milifandom, which started last week, is “a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed”.

2015 April 21, Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Milifandom soars with Twitter backing for Labour leader Ed Miliband”, in The Guardian:

The student, who describes the 'Milifandom' as 'a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed', started the unlikely cult-following of Miliband in the run-up to the May election.

That, Ed Miliband told the Evening Standard, was his wife Justine's reaction to the news that her husband had a fandom. Milifandom.

2015, Iain Watson, Five Million Conversations: How Labour lost and election and rediscovered its roots:

So I jokingly suggested to an excolleague at BuzzFeed via Twitter that this could be her next piece, since she'd been the first to uncover the 'Milifandom' (the band of teenage girls who had developed swooning, semiironic crushes on Labour leader Ed Miliband during the 2015 eelection campaign).

2016, Robert Colvile, The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster:

A teenager has taken Milifandom to a whole new level by getting Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh.

2016 January 12, Dan Bloom, “Milifandom taken to whole new level as teen fan gets Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh”, in The Mirror:

And after Milifandom signally failed to shift votes in places like Nuneaton, the PM told last year’s post-election party conference ‘Britain and Twitter are not the same thing’.

2016 June 22, Paul Waugh, “How The ‘Ground War’, And Digital Targeting, Will Decide The EU Referendum Result”, in The Huffington Post:

(colloquial, UK politics) An Internet-based youth movement in support of Ed Miliband, then leader of the British Labour Party.


commerce destroyer

en-noun

commerce destroyer (plural commerce destroyers)

(military, nautical, dated or historical) A fast, unarmoured, lightly armed naval vessel designed to capture or destroy the enemy's merchant ships.


Cossack post

(military) An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.


artillery wheel

artillery wheel (plural artillery wheels)

(military) A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes


cross-buttock

(wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip.


Brexit

Blend of Britain + exit, formed by analogy with Grexit.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest attested use is on 15 May 2012 in a Euractiv blog post by Peter Wilding titled “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, formed by analogy with Grexit, coined on 6 February 2012.

Unless a clear view is pushed that Britain must lead in Europe at the very least to achieve the completion of the single market then the portmanteau for Greek euro exit might be followed by another sad word, Brexit.

2012 May 15, Peter Wilding, “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, in EurActiv, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

The business community began to take the idea of Brexit seriously. Three major American banks, the Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley, revealed they were working on contingency plans to relocate from London to Dublin […]

2015, Denis MacShane, Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 6:

David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed a turbulent night with Remain campaigners quietly confident until the early hours when results from Newcastle and Sunderland showed better than expected returns for the Brexit camp. A surprise victory for a Brexit in Swansea, which was expected to vote to Remain, did little to dampen concerns despite Scotland overwhelmingly backing staying in the Union.

2016 June 24, Kate McCann, “EU referendum live: David Cameron resigns after UK shocks the world by voting for Brexit”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

The pensions of British Eurocrats are shaping up to be one of the most politically poisonous points in the UK’s Brexit talks, as the EU and London prepare to clash over liabilities running to several billion euros.

2016 August 1, Alex Barker, Jim Brunsden, “Eurocrats’ pensions shape up to be flashpoint in Brexit talks”, in The Financial Times, London:

We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit.

2017 June 19, Michel Barnier, “Brexit Negotiations: David Davis says ‘Promising Start’ Made”, in BBC News:

[Donald] Tusk said: “Our agreement will not make trade between the UK and the EU frictionless or smoother. It will make it more complicated and costly than today, for all of us. This is the essence of Brexit.”

2018 March 7, Daniel Boffey, Jennifer Rankin, “EU scorns UK’s ‘pick and mix’ approach to trade post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, London:

Meanwhile, The Sunday Times revealed that civil servants had warned of a “Doomsday Brexit” if no agreement is reached, creating shortages of medicine, fuel and food.

2018 June 5, “Brexit poll reveals record number of voters think decision to leave EU is wrong”, in The Independent, London:

“It’s all incredibly unhelpful and what we need to do now is to get closer with our European partners and work out what a realistic, pragmatic Brexit is that works for both sides, the EU and ourselves.”

2018 June 23, “Brexit: Theresa May ‘not bluffing’ in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says”, in The Independent, London:

A further referendum is not just a way for voters to decide whether to incur the economic and social cost of a final Brexit deal.

2019 March 5, David Miliband, “As foreign secretary I argued against an EU referendum. Now I back one”, in The Guardian:

The EESC also considers that the €5.4 billion reserve will not be sufficient to mitigate the negative effects of Brexit and asks the co-legislators to increase the proposed ceiling.

2021 November, Christiaan van Lierop, European Parliamentary Research Service:

Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc’s asylum scheme.

2021 December 2, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling”, in Euronews, sourced from AFP:

Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:

Even the BBC, long prevaricating on the issue, has started properly reporting the Brexit catastrophe, particularly its impact on the cost of living, NHS staff shortages and projections of weak future economic growth.

2023 February 2, Andrew Adonis, “Sooner or later, re-entry to the customs union and single market is inevitable”, in Prospect:

Biden’s irritation with London’s inability to solve its “Irish question” after Brexit has also played a role.

2023 August 7, Jo Harper, “UK–US: What’s happened to their free trade deal?”, in Deutsche Welle:

The mayor of London has urged EU citizens to “choose London” over other European cities, promising to make the UK capital a better place to live and work despite Brexit.

2023 October 6, Heather Stewart, “‘Choose London’: Sadiq Khan steps up efforts to lure EU citizens post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The Brexit referendum seemingly heralded such a moment but other than the negative sentiment of leave, the more positive agenda of what to do with the UK’s newfound status has been found wanting.

2023 November 3, Tim Olivier, “Brexit: a critical juncture in the UK’s international relations?”, in UK in a Changing Europe:

The Brits have been uniquely incompetent in wallowing in narcissistic irrelevance ever since the Brexit vote. They’ve refused to admit that the only path forward for them is a crippling deal with the United States that will give them access to the NAFTA system but at the cost of any kind of economic sovereignty.

2023 November 23, Peter Zeihan, “Ireland Needs a New Game Plan || Peter Zeihan”, in Zeihan on Geopolitics, sourced from YouTube, 2:55–3:14:

Brussels has warned the UK that it must fully apply the existing Brexit deals on EU citizens and Northern Ireland before it will entertain a reset in the relationship with London.

2024 August 1, Lisa O'Carroll, “UK must apply existing Brexit deals before any reset in relations, says EU”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), sourced from The Guardian:

(UK politics) Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

بِرِكْزِت

withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU

イギリスの欧州連合離脱

イギリスのおうしゅうれんごうりだつ

خروج بریتانیا از اتحادیه اروپا

xoruj-e beritâniyâ az ettehâdiye-ye orupâ


Speaker

(politics) Alternative letter-case form of speaker (“presiding officer of a legislative body”).

président

the presiding officer of a legislative body


neuroballistic

(military, of a weapon such as a catapult, ballista etc) Powered by a spring or a stretched or twisted cord


freedom toast

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Anyways I guess I got to get the french out of my system before I go through immigration. From now on it's all freedom fries, freedom toast, freedom dressing, and Freedom's Mustard.

2004 October 15, Jeffrey Miller, “From French flies to freedom fries in the Bush league”, in The Lawyers Weekly:

Upset by the failure of the French government to support the war, however, the chairman of the House Administration Committee announced on March 11 that he had ordered “French toast” and “French fries” stricken from the menu of the House cafeteria. In their place would be “freedom toast” and “freedom fries.”

2006, Andrew Rudalevige, The New Imperial Presidency, page 3:

(rare, US politics, food, sometimes humorous) Synonym of French toast.


freedom bread

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Well, pardon our ... uh ... freedom, but if we're dropping the name of a certain country from our vocabulary, we can't stop there.
Menus will have to be rewritten to include the following items: Freedom onion soup, Freedom pastries, Freedom bread, Freedom rolls, Freedom dressing, Freedom dip sandwiches, Freedom roast coffee and Freedom vanilla ice cream.

2003 March 19, Entertainment team, “Why stop there? Being mad at the French means renaming more than just fries”, in Daily Press, Newport News, VA, page D1:

Add remaining ingredients and stir. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Taste and revise if necessary. Served with French or freedom bread, whichever is available.

2004 August 11, “Chef Todd Misener began his career as a dishwasher”, in Northwest Florida Daily News, page D5:

(US politics, humorous, rare) Synonym of French bread.


freedom dressing

(US, politics, rare, humorous) Synonym of French dressing.


lighthanded

en-adj

lighthanded (comparative more lighthanded, superlative most lighthanded)

more lighthanded (comparative)
most lighthanded (superlative)

Being so lighthanded the vessel could not be properly managed and could carry but little sail, consequently her progress was but slow.

1887, The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-day Saints, Volume 8, page 168:

“We will hold on to the last, while he must begin to take in soon, or the squall will come upon him too fast for a light-handed vessel.”

1836, James Fenimore Cooper, The Water Witch:

(nautical or military) Not having a full complement of workers.


underhammer

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(firearms) A firing mechanism where the hammer is mounted under the frame, behind the barrels, and forward of the trigger.


iron bomb

(military aviation) A dumb bomb, a type of gravity bomb, an unguided bomb dropped from an aircraft.


Talibangelical

Talibangelicals (plural)
talibangelical (alternative)

It makes perfect sense, if you are a hypocritical far right wing Talibangelical. Having a totally heterosexual military is *far* more important than keeping the troops alive.

2006 January 30, Gregory Gadow, “Re: Military discharges hundreds of medics under gay ban”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Change the channel and the TV Talibangelical proclaims,
That Hurricane was the Hand of God!

2008, Raymond McNiece, “And The Jazz Plays On...Part 2”, in Greatest Hits 1987–2007, Pudding House Publications, →ISBN, page 34:

If this country continues to elect Talibangelicals like Paul Broun, this country is doomed!

2013 June 13, “Whineline”, in The Metro Spirit, volume 24, number 24, page 2:

(US, slang, politics, derogatory) An overzealous evangelical Christian, especially one who espouses strong right-wing views.


Talibangelical

Talibangelical (comparative more Talibangelical, superlative most Talibangelical)

more Talibangelical (comparative)
most Talibangelical (superlative)
talibangelical (alternative)

If you're of the opposing temperament, it might have tickled your fancy to watch Ben Affleck a month earlier at the Democratic convention in Boston - where celebs were largely kept under wraps, much as the barking, ululating Texas Talibangelical tendency would be in New York.

2004 October 16, John Patterson, “The cast are votes”, in The Guardian:

I have grown to despise the South and it’s Talibangelical influence.

2011, Kit, letter to the editor, QNotes, Volume 25, Number 23, 19 March 2011 - 1 April 2011, page 5

They will sacrifice women, children and refuse to give either access to affordable health care with their talibangelical ideology.

2011 June 26, VicXnews [username], “OT:Extreme Radical States Charging Pregnant Women Who Lose Babies with Murder”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):

(US, slang, politics, derogatory) Of, relating to, or espousing strong right-wing evangelical Christian views.


deathbed conversion

en-noun

deathbed conversion (countable and uncountable, plural deathbed conversions)

The dilemma was how to propose a big tax cut and still look credible. Dole knew that the Democrats would mock him for a deathbed conversion.

1996 November 17, “Whatever”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2015-05-28:

"A deathbed conversion" was how Representative John LaFalce of New York State described the House Republicans' change of heart.

2002 July 16, Richard A. Oppel Jr., David E. Sanger, “House Passes Bill to Combat Corporate and Securities Fraud”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-05-28:

Gordon Brown's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism and widening the goalposts for his team just as the match kicks off.

2010 February 10, Andrew Grice, “Brown's insurance against defeat”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-05-28:

(idiomatic, usually sarcastic, often politics) An abrupt, last-minute change in one's professed beliefs, principles, or point of view in order to escape a serious threat or to increase one's chances of success.


jaygee

Phonetic respelling of the letters JG, for "junior grade".

lieutenant junior grade
lieutenant junior grade

(US, military, slang) lieutenant junior grade


United Nations Security Council
United Nations Security Council

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China#English

United States of America
United States of America#English

(politics) Abbreviation of power 5 (“the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (France, People's Republic of China, United Kingdom, United States of America; and formerly Soviet Union, but now Russia)”).


(politics) A group of six world powers (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus Germany) which joined the diplomatic efforts with Iran with regard to its nuclear program.


Zippo

Trade name for lighters, established in the 1930s.

(military, slang) A boat, tank, etc. equipped with flamethrowers.


heelish

en-adj

heelish (comparative more heelish, superlative most heelish)

more heelish (comparative)
most heelish (superlative)

The heelish pair plotted to make everyone believe that their partnership was on its way out.

2002, Robert Picarello, Monsters of the Mat:

Grant argues that many takers are good at hiding their unpleasant side from potential benefactors... But that isn’t the entire story. It turns out that undisguised heelish behavior can often help you get ahead.

2015 June 7, “Why It Pays to Be a Jerk”, in The Atlantic:

(professional wrestling) Exhibiting the characteristics of a heel.


Butskellism

Blend of Butler + Gaitskell + -ism, after Rab Butler, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer 1951–55, and his Labour predecessor Hugh Gaitskell 1950–51.

The next few weeks will show whether the Opposition will seize this chance of golden silence; or whether, in a Brown fury, it is going to throw the opportunity for constructive Butskellism away.

And then there was a sort of sensation at the door and in came Margaret Thatcher. Rab’s shell crackled and contracted a little, as he tried to look flattered by the attention of his new leader: she whose whole purpose it was to cram Butskellism as harshly as possible into the WPB of history.

1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:

Camerairism reflects a structural change more profound than Butskellism ever did.

2005 October 20, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian:

(UK politics, now historical) A centrist economic policy obtaining in post-war Britain, upheld by both Conservative and Labour Chancellors.


WPB

Workers Party of Britain
w:Workers Party of Britain

(UK politics) Initialism of Workers Party of Britain.


workie

workies (plural)
worky (alternative)
Workie (alternative)

From work (noun) + -ie (suffix forming colloquial nouns denoting persons associated with the words to which they are affixed). Sense 1 (“intern”) alludes to work experience.

affix

(US politics, historical) Chiefly in the form Workie: a member or supporter of a Working Men's (or Workingmen's) Party, one of a number of political parties established in the United States in the early 19th century to further working class interests.


no quarter

(military) No mercy; no sparing the life of a captured opponent.

geen kwartier

no mercy for the life of a captured opponent


Gibson Girl

Introduced in the satirical works of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson in the 1890s.
(radio transmitter): So called from its hourglass shape (allowing it to be held between one's legs while the generator handle was turned), supposed to resemble a womanly figure.

(US, military, slang, historical) A survival radio transmitter carried by aircraft on over-water operations.


if-by-whiskey

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Refers to a 1952 speech by Noah S. "Soggy" Sweat Jr. during a debate on whether or not Mississippi should legalize alcoholic beverages. He prefaced his qualified agreement with each side in turn with the formula "if by whiskey you mean..." and a definition of "whiskey" crafted to support that side.

2010, Carol Phillip-Tudor, The Boy, The Professor and Ella's Regret, Dorrance Publishing Company (RoseDog Books), page 103,
"You a foolin' nary a soul, mister Emil" says Bilky. "I's thinkin' maybe yourin a usin' the If-by-Whiskey defense. […] "

(US, politics, of a speech, etc.) That equivocates on an issue while appearing to affirm both sides, by asserting that each is correct depending on which of two stated alternatives is used as the definition of a key term.


order arms

(military) A position in which the gun is held at the right side, with its butt on the ground.


order arms

en-verb

order arms (third-person singular simple present orders arms, present participle ordering arms, simple past and past participle ordered arms)

orders arms (present singular third-person)
ordering arms (participle present)
ordered arms (participle past)
ordered arms (past)


hand salute

(military) a gesture of respect to someone or something by raising the right hand to the side of one's head.


full-spectrum superiority

(military) Dominance of the battlespace to permit conduct of joint operations with neither effective counterattack nor resistance.


non-dom

Without that non-dom status she could have been liable for more than £20m of UK taxes on these windfalls, it was reported. After a public outcry, her spokesperson announced she would start paying UK taxes on her overseas earnings to relieve political pressure on her husband.

2022 October 24, Caroline Davies, “Spotlight on Rishi Sunak’s family as they prepare to enter No 10”, in The Guardian:

(taxation, UK) One who has their domicile in another country, allowing them to avoid paying UK tax on non-UK earnings.


SAA

Syrian Arab Army
Syrian Arab Army#English

(military, historical) Initialism of Syrian Arab Army.


antimachinist

Perhaps this distraction was perversely comforting for a dyed-in-the-wool antimachinist like Orr, a sense of continuity at a time of great emotional confusion.

1988 March 11, Gary Rivlin, “Seven Days as Mayor”, in Chicago Reader:

(politics) An opponent of a political machine


hellbox

(military, slang) A blasting machine producing an electrical charge for a detonation.


pellety

en-adj

pellety (comparative more pellety, superlative most pellety)

more pellety (comparative)
most pellety (superlative)
pelletty (alternative)

: -gules, a hind trippant or between three pheons or, within a bordure engrailed argent pellety. The printed version of Glover , which is frequently incorrect and is, incidentally, responsible for the use of many false[…]

1933, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur:

A dragon's head erased Or pellety eared and langued Gules.

1998, Joan Corder, John Blatchly, A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk Families, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 319:

(heraldry, not comparable) Semé (strewn) with pellets (roundels sable).


combined arms

(military) The amalgamation and implementation of the armed forces for joint operations.


no human involved

He was not working with what the police facetiously call a no-humans-involved case, where everyone involved whether as witness or suspect already has a substantial criminal record.

2003, John Lescroart, chapter 37, in The Oath:

Cops closed them all with a code: NHI. The unsolved crimes had been back-burnered until a reporter revealed that the letters stamped on the police files were shorthand for No Human Involved.

2008, Linda Fairstein, Killer Heat, page 191:

I remembered Ed's offensive remark—“No human involved in that first murder anyway”—and tried to keep the disdain off my face.

2010, Martha C. Lawrence, Pisces Rising, page 33:

“NHI-No Human Involved,” the cops used to say. It was only the newest shorthand for the idea that murders of blacks somehow didn't count. “Nigger life's cheap now,” a white Tennessean offered during Reconstruction, […]

2015, Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, One World/Ballantine, →ISBN, page 6:

Wynter's earlier example is a demonstration of the discourse of “no human involved” and shows that young Black men in zones of police surveillance are denied humanity in order to excuse the inexcusable violence enacted upon them.

2020, Sara Smith, Political Geography: A Critical Introduction, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 63:

(law enforcement slang, derogatory) Describing crimes committed against people deemed undesirable or subhuman, e.g., those with criminal records, sex workers, drug addicts, transients, or people of color.


presidentiable

/pɹɛzɪˈdɛnʃəbəl/

The parties organise chiefly around two activities: choosing a 'presidentiable' and electing MPs. Normally, moreover, the 'presidentiable' must lead the party in both activities in order to minimise rivalry.

1995, John Gaffney, Lorna Milne, French Presidentialism and the Election of 1995:

(French politics) A presidential candidate considered to have a good chance of winning an election.


presidentiable

From presidential + -able. Earliest use 1980s.

/pɹɛzɪˈdɛnʃəbəl/

In interviews and debates held in the past few weeks, some presidentiables have already shared snippets of their stand on some environmental issues, such as open-pit mining, clean energy, or sourcing of water.

2022 April 7, “The environment must be part of the election conversation”, in Manila Bulletin:

(Philippine politics) A person who is a likely or confirmed candidate for president.


TACAN

ultra high frequency
ultra high frequency

(military, aviation) Acronym of tactical air navigation beacon, an ultra high frequency electronic radionavigation system able to provide aircraft with continuous bearing and slant range information to a selected station.


strike one's flag

en-verb

strike one's flag (third-person singular simple present strikes one's flag, present participle striking one's flag, simple past struck one's flag, past participle struck one's flag or stricken one's flag)

strikes one's flag (present singular third-person)
striking one's flag (participle present)
struck one's flag (past)
struck one's flag (participle past)
stricken one's flag (participle past)
strike one's colors (alternative)
strike the colors (alternative)
strike the flag (alternative)

At length, having lost her fore and main-top-masts, and her mizzen-mast having been shot away to the deck, . . . the English frigate was reduced to the last extremity. Captain Cardan ordered his signal quarter-master to strike the flag.

1850, Herman Melville, chapter 74, in White Jacket:

An Austro-Prussian army of 120.000 men . . . is of itself so imposing a spectacle that one is tempted to believe the little Kingdom of Denmark will strike its flag without firing a shot.

1864 February 7, “Very Latest Per Edinburgh”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-02:

The enemy having yielded to our mercy and struck their flag, we ceased our fire, and thinking the worst over and done, I watched where Belvedere conned the ship with voice and gesture.

1921, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 12, in Martin Conisby's Vengeance:

(military, especially naval) To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.

baisser pavillon

to take down one's flag to indicate surrender


ruling class

From ruling + class. First use appears c. 1653.

One thing that has always shown that the English ruling class are morally fairly sound, is that in time of war they are ready enough to get themselves killed... What is to be expected of them is not treachery or physical cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. They are not wicked, or not altogether wicked; they are merely unteachable... Few if any of these people are consciously treacherous, some of them are not even fools, but as a class they are quite incapable of leading us to victory... Inevitably, because of their position and upbringing, the ruling class are fighting for their own privileges, which cannot possibly be reconciled with the public interest.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I & II:

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

1947, Anonymous translation of Karl Marx & al. as "Feuerbach" in The German Ideology, International Publishers Co., §I.B

...until our own time America's upper crust was a mixture of people who had gained prominence in a variety of ways, who drew their money and status from different sources and were not predictably of one mind on any given matter. The Boston Brahmins, the New York financiers, the land barons of California, Texas, and Florida, the industrialists of Pittsburgh, the Southern aristocracy, and the hardscrabble politicians who made it big in Chicago or Memphis had little contact with one another... All that has changed. Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits... whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America's ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats.

2010 July 16, Angelo Codevilla, "America's Ruling Class", The Spectator

For our ruling class, identity always trumps. Much less does membership... depend on high academic achievement. To see something closer to an academic meritocracy consider France, where elected officials have little power, a vast bureaucracy explicitly controls details from how babies are raised to how to make cheese, and people get into and advance in that bureaucracy strictly by competitive exams... for good or ill, France's ruling class are bright people—certifiably. Not ours... while getting into the Ecole Nationale d'Administration or the Ecole Polytechnique... requires outperfoming others in blindly graded exams, and graduating from such places requires passing exams that many fail, getting into America's "top schools" is less a matter of passing exams than of showing up with acceptable grades and an attractive social profile.

We once had a coherent ruling class, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), who more or less owned and ran the United States from its founding through the 1970s.

2021 Apr., Doug Henwood, "Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class", Jacobin

The C.C.P. is colossal, highly hierarchical and regimented. From its inception in 1921 with only 12 members, it has expanded to over 90 million, averaging almost 20 percent growth a year for 100 years... The C.C.P., like any of the more effective ancient Chinese ruling classes, diligently reads historical events for lessons. That has helped it navigate crises and, often, emerge stronger.

2021 July 1, Lian Yizheng, "The Chinese Communist Party Is 100. It's Not Going Anywhere.", New York Times

(sociology, politics) The social class of a given society that controls that society's political agenda, whether as a formal aristocracy or a party leadership or as an informal unit within democracies.


transmisogynist

en-adj

transmisogynist (comparative more transmisogynist, superlative most transmisogynist)

more transmisogynist (comparative)
most transmisogynist (superlative)
trans-misogynist (alternative)

Ropchan's assessment of the situation displays transmisogynist bias in the intentional misuse of the pronoun 'he,' […]

2012 April 4, Jil Jorgensen, Alexa DeGagne, “University must do more for transgendered people”, in The Gateway, volume 102, number 28, University of Alberta, page 10:

Well, speaking for myself as a trans woman: Certainly it's hard to argue that it doesn't repeat and reinforce all sorts of tired transmisogynist tropes, or that the song doesn't have a nasty hetero-cis sneer underneath it.

2012, Rachel Zall, quoted in Andrew Hickey, Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-1974, Lulu.com (2012), page 137, published 2 September 2012

Transwomen grow up in an incredibly transmisogynist culture, where we receive relentlessly negative messages about our identities, […]

2013, Leela Ginelle, "Parker Marie Molloy Elaborates on 'Gay Dudes, Can You Just Not?'", PQ Monthly, Volume 2, Number 12, December 2013/January 2014, page 12

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


transmisogynist

transmisogynists (plural)
trans-misogynist (alternative)

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) One who exhibits transmisogyny.


Weinergate

The now familiar story not only didn't go away, mainly because it was true, but it also morphed into what came to be called Weinergate, cashing in on the congressman's most unfortunate surname.

2015, Mark Y. Herring, Social Media and the Good Life: Do They Connect?, page 30:

(US politics, slang) A sexting scandal of 2011, involving US politician Anthony Weiner.


turbocapitalism

From turbo- + capitalism, popularized by Edward Luttwak in Turbo-Capitalism (1998).

It was not until the end of the 1970s that today's roaring turbo-capitalism was unleashed by the abolition of anti-competition laws and regulations left over from the 1930s, by the technological innovations thus allowed, by the privatization of whatever could be privatized, and by the removal of most important barriers.

1999, Edward Luttwak, Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy, New York: Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 1:

Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.

2009 March 31, Jonathan Freedland, “Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown”, in The Guardian:

David Cameron has marched onto territory staked out by Ed Miliband by promising that there would be no return to the "turbo-capitalism" of recent decades.

2012 January 19, Nicholas Watt, “David Cameron pledges era of ‘popular capitalism’”, in The Guardian:

As in China, nominally communist Vietnam has embraced brakes-off turbocapitalism, and the old dream of society has been picked clean.

2017 September 27, Jason Farago, “Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(capitalism) An accelerated form of capitalism that lacks measures to keep the system in equilibrium and prevent social unrest.


superdemocracy

en-noun

superdemocracy (countable and uncountable, plural superdemocracies)

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(politics) Any of various democratic systems that somehow build upon democracy, as for example by combining several democracies into one, or by increasing local autonomy.


reactionaryism

reactionarism (alternative)
reactionism (alternative)

To accuse a movement of being reactionary, we must understand what is meant by reactionaryism.

2000, Advocate of Dialogue, →ISBN, page 165:

I have never believed that a threat of reactionaryism exists in Turkey.

2012, Revolutionaries and Reformers, →ISBN, page 147:

(politics) The advocacy of reactionary political positions.


MTG

Marjorie Taylor Greene
w:Marjorie Taylor Greene

(politics, US politics) Initialism of Marjorie Taylor Greene.


walk-around money

walkaround money (alternative)
walk around money (alternative)

Mr Davis: Would it be feasible to use the taxpayers['] money without any checking as you're talking about here for what is commonly known as walk-around money or street money? Because under the FEC, that is now legal...
Mr Lott: ... I guess since walk-around money is now considered legal, I guess th[e]y could use that. Some States do rely very heavily on walk-around money in their primaries and general elections as the record will show.

1979, “Statement of Hon. Trent Lott...”, in Hearings before the Committee on House Administration ... on H.R. 1 and Related Legislation, page 264:

The brief order issued late yesterday clears the way for candidates and their committees, as soon as Tuesday's city elections in Baltimore, to pay so-called walk-around money to people hired for the day to distribute campaign literature.

2003 Sept. 5, Walter F. Roche Jr., "Paying of Election Day Workers OK'd" in The Baltimore Sun

Parker: I'll tell you what I would like: another 75 in cash for walk-around money.
Royce: 75, hm? Call another game.

2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:31:23

Loser's Town, the outsiders said. Washington had power. Baltimore's politics was based on election-day walk-around money, handed over with a sly wink by the precinct bosses, ensuring everybody got out the neighborhood vote.

2008, Michael Olesker, The Colts' Baltimore, page 6:

(US politics, especially Baltimore, colloquial) Money from a political campaign for use ensuring supporters bring voters to the polls, both for legitimate get out the vote efforts and political corruption.


precinct money

It also puts up what it calls precinct money, the small bankroll a worker carries and spends on election day and the few days before.

1976, William Allison Shimer, American Scholar, page 356:

Without the precinct money, you don't have poll-watchers and they can get away with anything.

(US politics, colloquial) Money paid to voting precinct leaders for get out the vote efforts, sometimes corruptly.


go dark

en-verb

go dark (third-person singular simple present goes dark, present participle going dark, simple past went dark, past participle gone dark)

goes dark (present singular third-person)
going dark (participle present)
went dark (past)
gone dark (participle past)

“But this third cell,” Butler said, “they went dark. No one had heard from them in months. That is, until the bombs started going off last week.”

2009, Vince Flynn, Pursuit of Honor: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 204:

More systems have gone dark as their comm buoys were destroyed, and millions more batarians, trapped on their planets, sit waiting for the Reapers.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Fall of Khar'shan Codex entry:


possibilist

actualist

antonym(s) of “someone who believes that things do not need to exist in order to have properties”

As early as 1881, the possibilists had won considerable backing in Parisian municipal elections;

1991, Gary P. Steenson, After Marx, Before Lenin, page 130:

(socialism, historical) A socialist who advocates focusing on small, achievable forms of immediate progress rather than an all-or-nothing commitment to revolution.


DAS

en-noun

DAS (countable and uncountable, plural DASs)

defensive aids system
w:defensive aids system

(military, aviation) Acronym of defensive aids system.


KA

(slang, law enforcement) Initialism of known associate.


apartheider

(rare, sociopolitics) A proponent of the apartheid system.


Eurogroup

Eurogroups (plural)
eurogroup (alternative)

(European politics) The informal body composed of the finance ministers of the countries in the Eurozone.


dutyman

dutymen (plural)
duty-man (alternative)
duty man (alternative)

The recruit eventually graduates to become a trained soldier and dutyman, with his place in a troop.

1985, Donald John Smith, Horses at Work, page 30:

It has often been claimed that the Household Cavalry's mounted dutymen have a busier routine than any other soldiers in the Army.

1997, J. N. P. Watson, Through Fifteen Reigns, page 165:

(UK, military) A fully trained soldier who has a specific role.


under-sergeant

Because of his cadet experience he was immediately made an under-sergeant, and was responsible for the discipline of the thirty or so students on the course, and was answerable to the Commanding Officer.

1994, Fiona Darcy, “SAM CALDER OBE, DFC”, in Journal of Northern Territory History, number 5:

The three most important minor characters are Ensign von Krixlow, who serves in the same battalion, and the poet Weiler and under-sergeant Frôbel, who serve in the same platoon as Gadsky.

2010, K Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, “Germany's Lessons From the Lost "Great War": Pacifist Andreas Latzko and Bellicist Walter Flex”, in Peace Research, volume 42, numbers 1-2:

One Saudi soldier, an under-sergeant, was killed in Bahrain on Tuesday, a Saudi official said.

2011 March 16, “Bahrain fires at protesters; 2 dead, 150 injured”, in CNN:

(military) A non-commissioned officer army rank immediately below a sergeant; corporal.


second line

(military) The second battle line used to support the front line.


Obamacan

Obamacans (plural)
Obama-can (alternative)

“About twice as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Obama, and about three times as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Clinton,” Rove said. “The media is all wired up about these ‘Obamacans’ … but the real story of this election is the ‘McCainocrats.’ ”

2008 April 21, John Heilemann, “Is John McCain Bob Dole?”, in New York:

However, it became increasingly bleak for Senator McCain's campaign as many of Senator Obama's endorsements came from "Obamacans."

2010, Clinton L. Sprauve, All Hail the "Messiah": Why Fox News Channel and the Conservative Clan Couldn't Crucify Him!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 49–50:

To my knowledge, there were no “Obamacans” in my family; all of the Republicans were sticking with Senator John McCain.

2012, Joan Walsh, What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was, John Walsh, →ISBN:

(US politics, slang) A member of the U.S. Republican Party who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.


Obamacon

Obamacons (plural)
Obama-con (alternative)

Kmiec has drawn attention because he is one of the nation's leading "Obamacons," conservatives who find Obama's call for a new approach to politics appealing.

2008 June 3, E. J. Dionne Jr., “For an 'Obamacon,' Communion Denied”, in The Washington Post:

The rise of the Obamacons is more than a reaction against Mr Bush's remodelling of the Republican Party and Mr McCain's desperation: there were plenty of disillusioned Republicans in 2004 who did not warm to John Kerry.

2008 October 23, “The rise of the Obamacons”, in The Economist:

Even New York Times Obamacon David Brooks acknowledged ObamaCare was "stuffed. . . .with gimmicks and dodges designed to get a good score from the Congressional Budget Office but don't genuinely control runaway spending."

2010, David Limbaugh, Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 69:

(US, politics, slang) A conservative (especially a Republican) who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.


ancap

en-adj

ancap (comparative more ancap, superlative most ancap)

more ancap (comparative)
most ancap (superlative)
an-cap (alternative)

Unlike its socialist forerunner, this Randian vision for smashing the state requires no interdependence, mutual aid, or renunciation of private wealth; in fact, one common ancap goal is to amass enough cash to keep the government off your back.

2022 July 8, Judy Berman, “The Anarchists Is a Messy, Gripping Anarcho-Capitalist Saga”, in Time:

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang) Clipping of anarcho-capitalist.


ancap

en-noun

ancap (countable and uncountable, plural ancaps)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang, countable) Clipping of anarcho-capitalist.

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang, uncountable) Clipping of anarcho-capitalism.


agorism

/ˈæ.ɡəˌɹɪzm̩/

From Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “agora (open place for assembly and market)”) + -ism.
Coined by Samuel Edward Konkin III in his 1980 New Libertarian Manifesto.

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Some of them are, or were, libertarians, but of a kind to make the respectably bourgeois Libertarian Party cringe - people like Samuel Edward Konkin III, whose revolutionary “agorism” or pure free-market anarchism is supposed to abolish and liberate the working class; […]

1994, Bob Black, Beneath the Underground, page 4:

(politics, economics) A revolutionary political philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society by means of counter-economics (i.e. black market).

agorisme

philosophy that advocates the creation of a voluntaryist society through counter-economics


agorist

From Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “agora (open place for assembly and market)”) + -ist.
Coined by Samuel Edward Konkin III in his 1980 New Libertarian Manifesto.

(politics, economics) a person who advocates agorism


individualist anarchism

(politics, economics) referring to a number of anarchist schools advocating individualism, i.e., the individual's will and rights over greater society and external institutions


anarcho-individualism

individualist anarchism
individualist anarchism#English

(politics, economics) individualist anarchism


anarcha-feminism

(politics, feminism) A political and philosophical theory combining anarchism and feminism, which typically views the state as patriarchal and oppressive.


individualist anarchist

en-adj

individualist anarchist (not comparable)

(politics) Of, supporting, relating to, or advocating individualist anarchism.


individualist anarchist

en-noun

individualist anarchist (plural individualist anarchists)

(politics, economics) A person who advocates individualist anarchism.


collectivist anarchist

collectivist anarchism
collectivist anarchism#English

(politics, economics) Of, supporting, relating to, or advocating collectivist anarchism.


collectivist anarchist

collectivist anarchist (plural collectivist anarchists)

(politics, economics) A person who advocates collectivist anarchism.


anarcho-primitivist

The American philosopher John Zerzan is considered the intellectual heavyweight for the anarcho-primitivist movement, whose adherents believe that technology enslaves us.

2018 March 4, Jamie Bartlett, “Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?”, in The Guardian:

(politics, economics) Of, supporting, relating to, or advocating anarcho-primitivism.


anarcho-primitivist

The anarcho-primitives “carry a black flag in one hand and a welfare check in the other,” an anarchist named Janet Biehl wrote in a recent Internet essay.

2000 August 5, Joseph Kahn, “Anarchism, the Creed That Won't Stay Dead; The Spread of World Capitalism Resurrects a Long-Dormant Movement”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcho-primitivism.


anarcho-pacifist

(anarchism) Of, supporting, relating to, or advocating anarcho-pacifism.


anarcho-pacifist

anarcho-pacifists (plural)
anarchopacifist (alternative)

(anarchism) a person who advocates anarcho-pacifism.


anarcho-naturist

(politics, economics) of, supporting, relating to, or advocating anarcho-naturism