FMQs

First Minister's Questions
w:First Minister's Questions

(UK politics) Initialism of First Minister's Questions.


boxhead

(UK, military, slang, dated) A German person.


Repooplican

Why is it only Repooplicans are for the electoral college? Because they are a minority that wants to maintain control and the only thing worse than majority rule is minority rule.

2000 November 14, Steve Zipser, “Re: Tax Court, Schmax Court . . .”, in alt.home-theater.misc (Usenet):

Being uncommitted to any political party, I make it a habit of believing everything DemocRATs and Repooplicans say about each other.

2003 August 3, XCobraJock, “Re: Tax Court, Schmax Court . . .”, in misc.taxes (Usenet):

Politics today pretty much has to involve the existing parties. There are three, really: the Repooplicans, the Demoncrats, and the Opportunists. The Opportunists just infiltrate the other two.

2010 February 13, Woody Brison, “Re: ACAD - Colossians 3”, in alt.religion.mormon.fellowship (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A member or supporter of the Republican Party of the United States.


Repugnican

The Repugnicans do everything they can to discriminate against minorities while calling it "choice", and then accuse Democrats of "divisiveness".

2001 April 21, Dennis P. Harris, “Re: Choices”, in alt.culture.alaska (Usenet):

If you wish to maintain that the Clinton-era economy was a "bubble economy" you must concede that the simile implies that the "bubble" burst. That's a discrete event. An event Repugnicans did nothing to forestall.

2002 July 31, Gary Ott, “Re: It's the Economy, Stupid”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet):

So it is quite fair and reasonable to say that wage earners are getting the shaft when compared to those who OWN stuff and receive UNEARNED income (mostly economic rent). Unless and until the Repugnicans can figure out a way to share the wealth more equitably they are simply a bunch of lying pigs who use cherry picked "data" to illustrate distortions.

2005 September 29, The Trucker, “Re: China's growth is not due to trade”, in sci.econ (Usenet):


Dumbya

Blend of Dubya (“nickname for George W. Bush”) + dumb.

blend

Maybe Dumbya vs. Pinocchio would be a good matchup for late-night comedy, but with U.S. sailors being blown to bits in Yemen, the Mideast in flames, and a stock market as un- reliable as a daily tracking poll, a new sense of seriousness, if not outright gloom, has descended on the White House sweepstakes. The public seems even more exhausted than the candidates.

2000 October 23, Roger Simon, Kenneth T. Walsh, “Suddenly, it's serious: A turbulent wold intrudes on America's long, national daydream”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 129, number 16, →ISSN, page 36:

A lifetime spent as a Rockefeller toady cultivating both open and covert contacts with intelligence agencies, organized crime figures, third world dictators, oil cartels, drug lords and the New World Order made our new President Dumbya possible.

2001 Winter, Robert Lederman, “GW Bush and the Bi-Partisanism Hustle”, in It's About Time…, volume 5, number 1, page 6:

Because who doesn’t want to own an oil-less, el busto oil company? Do you know anything at all about tax dodges? (As president, Dumbya would appoint Reynolds ambassador to Switzerland after he and DeWitt contributed nearly $1 million to the Bush 2000 campaign.)

2007, Jack Huberman, The GOP-Hater's Handbook: 378 Reasons Never to Vote for the Party of Reagan, Nixon and Bush Again, New York, NY: Nation Books, →ISBN, page 59:

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


Washington cherry tree

en-noun

Washington cherry tree (plural Washington cherry trees)

From having been "cut down by Washington", referencing the legendary tale of [George] Washington and the cherry tree.

(military, nautical, historical) A battleship or battlecruiser cancelled or downsized as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty.


GoI

Government of India
w:Government of India

(government) Initialism of Government of India; also GOI.


antirestoration

en-adj

antirestoration (comparative more antirestoration, superlative most antirestoration)

more antirestoration (comparative)
most antirestoration (superlative)


battle map

battle maps (plural)
battlemap (alternative)

Inside a battle map hung on the wall, showing how the invaders had positioned themselves behind two dangerous obstacles, which they now intended to use as shields.

December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time:

(military) A map showing the location of a battle and the things needed to oversee the course of the battle, including positions of troops, armaments, battlements and trenches, supply lines, etc.


count noses

en-verb

count noses (third-person singular simple present counts noses, present participle counting noses, simple past and past participle counted noses)

counts noses (present singular third-person)
counting noses (participle present)
counted noses (participle past)
counted noses (past)

The last time we met — only three days ago — his great project was coming up before Parliament, and he told me, in confidence, that he was sure of a favorable result, — that he had counted noses, and had the most comfortable assurances from all the great leaders of the day, — and in short, between ourselves, that grass would be growing on the London Exchange within two years.

1867 August 1, John Neal, “London Forty Years Ago: From the Memoranda of a Traveller”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2022-08-14:

Although Israel strongly opposes beefing up military aid to Egypt, the Israelis, as one reliable source puts it, "have counted noses in Congress and know they can't stop it."

1980 February 10, John M. Goshko, “Egypt to Get Best Weapons as U.S. Hunts Arab Support”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

Because it appears the Speaker has not learned to accurately count noses in his own caucus yet.

2011 February 9, Chris Weigant, “Can Boehner Count Votes?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

"The highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president," Pelley said. "They were counting noses. They were not asking cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating this person would be with us, that person would not, and they were counting noses in that effort."

2019 February 14, Erin Durkin, “Andrew McCabe says officials discussed removing Trump after Comey firing”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-08-16:

They reached professional maturity during the years when their political party began to struggle in the face of Republican attacks on the ethos of big-government liberalism, and they prided themselves on their pragmatism, their ability to count noses and preserve disparate coalitions.

2023 January 3, Franklin Foer, “You'll Miss Gerontocracy When It's Gone”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2023-01-03:

(idiomatic, politics) To determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue.


Republithug

Blend of Republican + thug. Compare Rethuglican.

I would never condone any riot, but the difference between such a riot and the Republithugs who stormed Miami-Dade is that the Repub's were attempting to stop a lawful recount through intimidation.

2000 December 2, James Simpson, “Re: Republicans correctly accuse Dems of STEALING the election ...”, in alt.politics.elections (Usenet):

On the other hand, it is an easy, basic way of understanding the abuses of the Republithugs. That is, nothing matters but power. That is, further, they don't mean a *damn thing with "family values." They never did. It was just another pose meant to help them gain power.

2006 October 12, Mark K. Bilbo, “Re: OT: Derailing the Republicans”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

He will still be POTUS and I shall give him all the patience and respect he and the other Republithugs gave president-elect Obama.

2016 November 12, Keyser Söze, “Re: Time to pay up, Krause”, in rec.boats (Usenet):


enté en point

From French [Term?], compare Spanish entado en punta.

enté in point (alternative)
enty in point (alternative)
enté en pointe (alternative)

Brunswick and Lunenburgh impaled with Saxony, ente-en-point, that is, grafted in point.

1788, Hugh Clark, A Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry, etc. (The fifth edition, with considerable improvements.), page 133:

Paling Sicily; the whole enté en point of Granada. He bore the full arms of Lalain, […]

(heraldry) Impaled by (something in) a pointed 'pile' at the bottom of a shield, especially as a means of marshalling.


enty

Enty : a word adopted but by few writers from the French enté, a graft , and applied to the base of the shield when parted off by a line chevrouwise : written by some heralds ampty. See Point : also Gusset.
Argent, on a chief enty [in more recent blazon 'indented'] azure five crosses croslet or—Ralph de Wilshere.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 230:

Shields parted chevronwise are common in the 15th century, when they are often blazoned as having chiefs "enty" or grafted. Aston of Cheshire bore "Party sable and silver cheveronwise" or "Silver a chief enty sable."

1910, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, page 320:

The third is gold with four pales of gules or red. The fourth is gules or red with a gold chain arranged per cross, per saltire, and in orle, charged at the center with an emerald proper [i.e. green]. It is enty of silver with a[…]

1982, The Flag Bulletin, volume 21, page 46:

(heraldry, of the base of a shield) Parted off chevronwise; (of a charge) enté en point, inserted into a chevronlike partition of the base of the shield.


counterwavy

On a fess, between two others wavy, counterwavy, a lion passant.

1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, London : J.R. Smith, page 495:

... “Cette blessure” (“This Wound”) in a round with Hélène Baillargeon and Alan Mills singing “Galant, tu perds ton temps” (“Lover, You're Wasting Your Time”). This wavy, counterwavy tit for tat goes on so long —with time-out for a[…]

2003 October 7, Gordon Sheppard, HA!: A Self-Murder Mystery, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN:

Amayden, I, p. 350, blazon three bends wavy argent and gules; Giallolombardo-Arcangeli, p. 62, blazon five bends counterwavy, argent. […]

2011 November 10, Aa.Vv., Seventeenth century blazonry of the lesser Roman aristocracy (Un blasonario secentesco della piccola e media aristocrazia romana), Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN, page 68:

(heraldry) Wavy, with the waves (of different lines) opposed instead of parallel.


mark 1 eyeball

mark 1 eyeballs (plural)
mark one eyeball (alternative)
mark I eyeball (alternative)
mk 1 eyeball (alternative)
mk I eyeball (alternative)
mk. 1 eyeball (alternative)
mk. I eyeball (alternative)

In reference to mark 1; the designation commonly given to the first version of an invention, before the addition of any improvements or enhancements.

Don't worry, I'll use my trusty mark 1 eyeball here.


climant

Sa. three goats, climant, ar. GARFORTH (Yorkshire).

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

The nearest to the quartered coat, "Vert, a goat passant arg.," that I find there is "Vert, a goat climant arg.," assigned by Papworth to Felbury, of Northumberland, and similarly blazoned and assigned by Sir Bernard Burke[…]

Gules, a goat climant argent, attired or — BARWELL. Gules, a goat salient argent, armed or — BENSTED. Argent, a goat rampant sable, the head and part of the neck of the first armed vert — DE BUCKTON.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 287:

Obv. — A goat climant within a border of 12 cinquefoils interrupted by the type. Rev. — A device of doubtful interpretation intersected by two crosses in saltire and surmounted by a third.

1920, Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, page 240:

(heraldry, of a goat, postpositive) Climbing; represented with its front legs raised.


banzai charge

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

From banzai + charge. "Banzai" from Japanese 天皇陛下万歳 (Tennō Heika banzai, “long live His Imperial Majesty”), a common battle cry used by Japanese soldiers.

der

(historical, military) A human-wave suicide attack performed by Japanese soldiers during World War II.


popular initiative

en-noun

popular initiative (plural popular initiatives)

(politics) A petition whereby, upon reaching a prespecified number of signatures by registered voters, the populace forces the government to either enact a law or hold a public vote on the matter.


gringolée

From French gringolé (attested since 1644), related to the verb gringoler (and apparently dégringoler, attested in the form desgringueler from 1595), apparently from Middle Dutch crinkelen, from kring (“circle”), from Old Dutch *kring, from Proto-Germanic *kringaz; the semantics are obscure.

gringolé (alternative)
gringoly (alternative)
gringolly (alternative)

(heraldry) Of e.g. the ends of a cross: terminating in snakes' heads.


Justinflation

“JustinFlation is coming to a grocery store near you,” Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Shadow Minister for Finance, said in a statement.

2021 December 9, Gabrielle Piché, “We’ll pay more to eat less”, in Winnipeg Free Press:

Instead, the Poilievre who is available to us is the one who snarls ceaselessly about Justinflation, lobs bombs just to bask in the glow of the blast and throws in his lot with protesters terrorizing ordinary citizens because—well, frankly, it’s hard to fathom why.

2022 March 10, Shannon Proudfoot, “Why is Pierre Poilievre so angry?”, in Maclean's:

Barrett and Gourde said: "While people in this country are struggling to afford to live and provide for their family because of the crushing costs of Justinflation and higher taxes, the Liberals are helping their friends get rich on the backs of hardworking Canadians."

2022 December 17, Mary Ng, “Another Liberal minister found guilty of breaking ethics laws must resign: Conservatives”, in Indo-Canadian Voice, page 18:

(Canada, politics, derogatory) Inflation attributed to the economic policies or spending of the government of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.


saltorel

[…] saltorels ar. […]

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:

John Edward Devlin. Armorial. Victorian. "College of Arms" shield. Arms : Azure, a saltorel, or, between three stars, argent. Crest : A griffin passant [gules], charged on the shoulder with the saltorel as in arms. Motto : Crux mea stella.

1905, Joseph Winfred Spenceley, A Descriptive Checklist of the Etched & Engraved Book-plates, page 9:

But it is striking that this armorial resembles that of the city of Amsterdam which has three saltorels per pale, without the flowering stems. The manors of Zundert and Breda in western North Brabant also have saltorels in their arms[…]

2007, Jochem Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market: Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of Dutch Families, W Books:


embordured

embordered (alternative)
emborder'd (alternative)

Azur, a chief gules embordured or.

1680, Sir George Mackenzie, The Science of Herauldry, Treated as a Part of the Civil Law, and Law of Nations: Wherein Reasons are Given for Its Principles, and Etymologies for Its Harder Terms, page 28:

Armorial bearings - He bears for Arms : Quarterly, 1. ermine, three bars gules (for Fothringham); 2. gules, embordured a lion rampant or, with a scymitar in his dexter paw proper (for Scrymscoure); 3. argent, a lion passant[…]

1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 781:

(heraldry, rare) Furnished with a bordure (now especially if of the same tincture as the field).


sarcelly

recercelée (alternative)
cercelée (alternative)
sarcele (alternative)
recercelé (alternative)
cercelé (alternative)
cercellé (alternative)
cercellée (alternative)
recercellé (alternative)
recercellée (alternative)
sarcellée (alternative)
cercelly (alternative)
sarcelé (alternative)
sarcelée (alternative)
sarcelie (alternative)

From Anglo-Norman cercelé, recercelé ("curly, curled"), from Old French cercelé (compare cerceau (“hoop”)). Attested since at least 1500.

[…] ar. a bend, sarcelly, gu. betw. eight couped, ar. attired or. crosses, formée, sa.

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Arms:

Az. billetty and a cross sarcelly arg. John MORYS, Y. Az. a cross sarcelly pierced arg. MELTON, Aston, co. York. […] Az. a cross anchory or. BEAURAIN. […] Vert a cross sarcelly indented az. betw. three crosses croslet fitchy or. EYMORE.

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, pages 609, 638:

Ermine, a cross sarcelly sable - GODARD, Chester.
Azure, crusilly a cross sarcelly disjoined or - KNOWLES, Earl of Banbury, ob. 1632. Argent, crusily gules a cross sarcelly sable - RALEIGH.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 178:

Gules, a cross sarcelly ermine.

1897, W. K. R. Bedford, Blazon Episc. (ed. 2) 217

(heraldry, of a cross) Having its end terminate in forked tips which curl around both ways, either like or else more pronounced than moline or anchory/ancré.


recercelée

Azure, a cross recercelée and voided or; a baton gules ....... Sire William de Basinges.

1828, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, A Roll of Arms of Peers and Knights in the Reign of Edward the Second, page 163:

Gu., a Cross recercelée erm., […]

1867, Charles Boutell, English Heraldry, page 56:

The cross recercelée has the ends split and curled outwards, but differs from the cross moline in having them pointed.

1894, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, page 620:

The cross recercelée has the ends split and curled outwards, but differs from the cross moline […] The cross recercelée is usually also voided. […] Basing, temp. Edward III.: azure, a cross recercelée and voided or.

1898, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature: New Maps and Many Original American Articles by Eminent Authors. With New American Supplement, page 696:


K-rat

(US, military, slang) Clipping of K-ration.


wind of a ball

(military, archaic) The condition where a round shot causes internal injury or concussion as it passes, without actually striking the victim.


fruitagée

5 Cross, fruitagée. 6 Cross, catoosed. 7 Cross, double avellaney, or Cross mascle fruitagée.

Cross double fruitagée, or a mascle with four fruitages, or Cross with demi fleurs-de-lis on each side, the bottoms to avellanes, joined to the points thereof in cross. 5, fig. 19.

1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, page 14:

(R. 6, 6. c. fruitagée – the grapes proper);

1849, Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd, Die Hauptstücke der Wappenwissenschaft ... mit vielen Beispielen und Abbildungen erläutert, page 265:

(heraldry, rare, of a cross, rather than a plant) Bearing fruitages.


box nasty

(military slang) A packed lunch supplied in a box.


mother and baby unit

mother and baby unit (plural mother and baby units)

(UK, healthcare) An inpatient unit for women who have mental health issues around the time of pregnancy or childbirth.


Demotard

Demotards (plural)
demotard (alternative)

Of course, hypocrisy at its finest. Blah-blah Ford had NO evidence or proof about Kavanaugh, but the Demotards believed Kavanaugh was guilty. Reade has contemporary evidence, at least, but the same Demotards don't even want to talk about it, and they think that's okay.
Watch the Demotards use those very same allegations behind the scenes to flush O'Biden out and bring in a replacement... maybe Hillary or "Big Mike" O'Bummer. O'Biden ain't gonna be The Man when it gets down to the nitty and the gritty.

2020 May 2, Checkmate, “We now have absolute proof the media are completely corrupt”, in alt.support.depression.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2023-01-19:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A Democrat.


Tasexit

Blend of Tasmania + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.

Ahead of the state's upcoming election, the Liberal government has pledged to pull Tasmania's pricing structure from the National Electricity Market if it is elected as part of its 'Tasmania First' policy, in a move being dubbed 'Tasexit'.

2018 February 5, Cole Latimer, “Tasmania wants to leave the national grid as part of 'Tasexit'”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

The 'Tasexit' is part of the Liberal Government's Tasmania First philosophy where local generators would not be given full freedom to sell electricity generated in Tasmania to other states.

2018 February 7, Mike Carabott, “Tasmania's Liberal Government will pull out of National Energy Market if re-elected”, in Leading Edge Energy:

(Australian politics) The secession or expulsion of the state of Tasmania from Australia or another Australian Government initiative.


Capexit

Blend of Cape + exit. Modeled after Brexit and Grexit.

CapeXit needs the support of 1.6 million people to request a referendum with the SA government in order to start the process of independence.

2021, Erene Roux, "The CapeXit mission: Can this be Brexit for the Western Cape?", The South African, 31 May 2021

(South Africa, politics) The secession of Western Cape (as well as sometimes Eastern Cape and Northern Cape) from South Africa.


sinarquista

(politics) A member of Mexico's National Synarchist Union.


ICV

ICV (countable and uncountable, plural ICVs)

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of in-car video.

(military) Initialism of infantry carrier vehicle.

(military) Initialism of infantry combat vehicle.


OGA

(politics, euphemistic) Initialism of other government agency.


femstruation

femstruation (usually uncountable, plural femstruations)

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

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menstruation.


bringback

en-adj

bringback (comparative more bringback, superlative most bringback)

more bringback (comparative)
most bringback (superlative)

(military, aviation) Pertaining to return payload weight for aircraft from aircraft carriers.


Big E

(US, naval slang, historical) USS Enterprise (CV-6)

(US, naval slang, historical) USS Enterprise (CVN-65)


Eighth Route Army

(historical, military) a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party that fought the Japanese military and its puppet armies in both conventional and guerrilla warfare during the Second Sino-Japanese War.


Bushophile

Eventually, the Bush platters will go to the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Texas, where planners hope to build a sophisticated multimedia system that will allow Bushophiles to see correspondence, polls, press reports and video clips on computer workstations.

1993 January 25, Mitch Betts, “Bush Presidential Library first to employ high tech”, in Computerworld, volume 27, number 4, →ISSN, page 22:

So to bash Bush, for being the fool he is, is America bashing? What a crock! You Bushophiles don't give a shize about true democracy, or freedom of speech.

2002 September 24, eric davis, “Re: "Bush Squandered World Good Will after 9-11"”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

(US politics, informal) A fan or supporter of George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) or George W. Bush (born 1946), former presidents of the United States.


Xiden

Blend of Xi + Biden, in reference to Xi Jinping (born 1953), the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

I keep waiting for ONE of my left-leaning facebook buddies to say what a good job Xiden is doing.

2021 July 29, Jason Burke, “Re: Two Puddles Of Blood In Dealey Plaza?”, in alt.conspiracy.jfk (Usenet):

Not content with being #3 on the Chinese Wuhan Virus state list, the wreckless hypocrite woke folks of Massachusetts are holding posh dinner parties and spreading the virus like crazy, classic democrats like those governors and Xiden that were caught secretly not wearing masks.

2021 August 9, iceber...@gmail.com, “OT Cases in Massachusetts going through the roof again!”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):

Trump was famously on the verge of banning it when Xiden rode in and gave a reprieve.

2022 October 4, JeSSe, “Chink spyware app has Hook$ into Bolshevik power structure”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) Joe Biden (born 1942), the 46th president of the United States, viewed as a pawn or tool of China.


mobik

mobiks (plural)
mobiki (plural)
mobnik (alternative nonstandard)

Borrowed from Russian мо́бик (móbik), from моб(илизо́ванный) (mob(ilizóvannyj), “mobilized”) + -ик (-ik, diminutive suffix).

af

мобилизо́ванный

моб(илизо́ванный)

"The video was posted on and being reposted by pro-Wagner channels, which matches Prigozhin's 'Fire Shojgu' narrative...Also some Wagner patches are visible on it. Nearly all 'poor mobiks' (mobilized men) on the video wear balaclavas," Krutov wrote.

2022 October 6, Isabel van Brugen, “Putin Has 'Lost Control' as Infighting Breaks Out Among Russia's Elite”, in Newsweek:

The Defense Ministry has pumped out a stream of videos showing happy "mobiks," as the recruits are known in Russian slang, learning to shoot, attack tanks, tie a tourniquet, plant a land mine and other military tasks.

2022 October 16, Neil MacFarquhar, “'Coffins Are Already Coming': The Toll of Russia's Chaotic Draft”, in The New York Times:

(informal, derogatory, Internet, neologism, military, sometimes humorous) A Russian conscript during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially a young man with little to no fighting experience.


probing amendment

en-noun

probing amendment (plural probing amendments)

(politics) An amendment put forward by a legislator with the intent of providing an opportunity for discussion of a specific topic, rather than with the intent of actually changing the proposed legislation.


Bushophilia

Bushophilia is reaching a new peak among the ranks of the demented, the sexually depraved and the paranoid. The GOP is selling pictures of the usurper running panicked and scared for his life after 9/11for $150 a pop.

2002 May 16, William PF, “Photos of W running scared after 9/11 are going for $150 a piece”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

That said, for many fresh-faced men there was one love that dared speak its name. The exhibition hall was a temple of Bushophilia, from photographs of his inauguration for $175 to cups, hats, badges, key-rings and “Pray for him” T-shirts.

2003 February 8, “Guys and dolls: Conservatives, off their leash, are a frightening bunch”, in The Economist, volume 366, number 8310:

That’s why all the hypocrisy surrounding George H.W. Bush’s death thrilled me. I didn’t fall for the weaponization of Bushophilia to bash Trump and implicitly say, “Hey, I’m fair-minded, I could abide by Reagan or the Bushes – but this guy’s beyond the pale.”

2018 December 11, Gil Troy, “The constructive hypocrisy when eulogizing Bush was OK”, in The Jerusalem Post:

(US politics, informal) The love or admiration of George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) or George W. Bush (born 1946), former presidents of the United States.


Putinophile

It's not clear if the job ad is a hoax, a publicity stunt, or a genuine appeal to the young Putinophile with an eye for fashion statements and espionage.

2016 August 30, Nick Miller, “Time to add some glamour to Russian espionage, unusual Raketa watch ad hints”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(politics, informal) A fan or supporter of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Putinophilia

“Ukraine attacks Russia!” was the surreal headline on a report in the 22 February edition of Informer, Serbia’s biggest-selling tabloid. That headline was not a one off, it was an expression of the Putinophilia that has been strong in Serbia for years.

2022 October 28, Tomislav Marković, “The cult of Putin in Serbia reflects a nation that has still not dealt with its past”, in The Guardian:

(politics, informal) The love or admiration of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


inescutcheoned

(heraldry) Presented as an inescutcheon.


jewel in the Liberal crown

the jewel in the Liberal crown (canonical)

(Australian politics, historical) Victoria, a state of Australia.


jewel in the Liberal crown

jewel in the Liberal crown (plural jewels in the Liberal crown)

(Australian politics) Any state where the Liberal Party has a large supporter base (currently used to refer to Queensland and Tasmania).


teal independent

teal independent (plural teal independents)

Such politicians generally used the colour teal, interpreted by some journalists as a blend of the green of the environmental movement and the blue of the Liberal Party.

(Australian politics) An independent politician who espouses environmentally and socially progressive but economically conservative ideas, especially in the context of a group of independent candidates who ran in the 2022 federal election.


trim party

(military slang) A prank in which a crowd of crewmembers move around a submarine to make it difficult to set the vessel's trim correctly.


cowboy load

cowboy action shooting
cowboy action shooting

(firearms) An underpowered load used in cowboy action shooting.


barracks bunny

barracks bunny (plural barracks bunnies)

(military slang) A military servicewoman who sleeps with many other soldiers.


SOUTHCOM

(US, military) Acronym of Southern Command.


USSOUTHCOM

(US, military) Acronym of United States Southern Command.


musket ball

Archaeologists excavating the site of Coleshill Manor in Warwickshire have uncovered the foundations of a medieval gatehouse, on which are around 200 marks and indentations from pistol and musket balls. A further 40 musket balls were removed from nearby soil, where the moat would have been located.

2023 February 8, “HS2 archaeologists uncover evidence of early Civil War skirmish”, in RAIL, number 976, page 24:

(firearms, historical) A spherical projectile suitable for firing from a musket.


uberleft

en-adj

uberleft (comparative more uberleft, superlative most uberleft)

more uberleft (comparative)
most uberleft (superlative)

I don't concern myself with ongoing NeoCon and uberleft hypocrisy.

2005 November 16, Michael Wise, “Re: Bill O'Reilly IS right! The majority in S.F. ARE BAD AMERICANS!”, in ba.politics (Usenet):

Clement in the fall of 2017 would resign, with a much-publicized letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that made clear his complaint had always been about politics: […]. Clement would go on to take a job—surprise—at the uber-left Union of Concerned Scientists.

2019, Kimberley Strassel, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America, New York, NY: Twelve Books, →ISBN, page unknown:

In the next party primary election (or partisan primary), a contest for the party's nomination dominated by special interests and sharply ideological voters, you can expect an überleft challenger if you're a Democrat and a hard-right opponent if you're a Republican.

2020, Katherine M. Gehl, Michael E. Porter, The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN, page unknown:

(politics, informal) Synonym of far-left.


Putinomania

Putinomania gradually became an element of Russian life. New textbooks were introduced in the schools of Saint Petersburg, Putin’s hometown, that described the childhood of Uttle Volodya Putin. That meant something to people who had learned to read with books about the childhood of litde Volodya Ulyanov (Lenin).

2005, “The Moment of Truth”, in Lilia Shevtsova, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, Putin's Russia, Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, →ISBN, page 123:

The Putin cult is most visible in his native St. Petersburg. The city is in the vanguard of Putinomania. One local sculptor is preparing a bronze bust. […] The pompous celebrations in 2003 marking the 300th anniversaiy of the founding of the city threw oil on the flames of Putinomania.

2005, Boris Lanin, “Putin and Culture”, in Dale R. Herspring, editor, Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, 2nd edition, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:

Putinomania was stoked throughout the country, as state-owned media pictured Putin daily, meeting national and regional leaders and making an unprecedented number of foreign trips. Russia was once again a player on the international stage, to be respected and taken into account.

2014, Karen Dawisha, “The Founding of the Putin System”, in Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 310:

(politics) The fervent admiration of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


trefly

Argent, a cross trefly voided gules and on a chief vert

1959, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge:

Arms : Argent two bars and on a chief gules, a cross trefly or, between two roundels barry wavy or and azure

Sable a cross trefly Argent, in the first quarter the Virgin and Child standing;[…]


crampony

(heraldry, uncommon) Synonym of cramponee.


Gang of Eight

the Gang of Eight (canonical)
gang of eight (alternative)

If the President were to inform the Gang of Eight that he signed a covert action finding to overthrow the government of Canada, he would be required to tell others at least something about the finding.

2010 September 28, Marc Ambinder, “A Step Forward for Oversight of Intelligence”, in The Atlantic:

(US politics, informal) A set of eight leaders within the United States Congress who are briefed on classified intelligence matters by the executive branch.

First Washington had the Gang of Six, six senators seeking a bipartisan agreement on reducing the nation's debt. Now there's the Gang of Eight, eight senators seeking an agreement on dodging looming end-of-year spending cuts and tax increases.

2012 November 14, Sophie Quinton, “Michael Bennet: Debt Deal Depends on Boehner-Obama Agreement”, in The Atlantic:

(US politics, informal) A set of eight leaders within the United States Congress for fiscal matters.


Gang of Six

the Gang of Six (canonical)
gang of six (alternative)

First Washington had the Gang of Six, six senators seeking a bipartisan agreement on reducing the nation's debt.

(US politics, informal) Various bipartisan groups in the United States Senate working on health care, fiscal policy, and immigration.


Seiyuhonto

From Japanese 政友本党 (literally “Orthodox Constitutional Friends Party”).

bor

(politics, historical) A political party in Japan, active from 1924 to 1927.


Seiyukai

From Japanese 立憲政友会 (literally “Association of Friends of Constitutional Government”).

(politics, historical) A major political party in the pre-war Empire of Japan, founded in 1900.


Gettr

Blend of get + together, coined by company founder Jason Miller in 2021.

A writer for Salon posted screenshots on Twitter of several GETTR profiles, including those of former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Miller himself, that were altered to read “JubaBaghdad was here, follow me in twitter :), ^^ free palestine ^^.”

2021 July 5, Aaron Reich, “Trump-affiliated Twitter rival ‘GETTR’ hacked on launch day”, in The Jerusalem Post, online edition:

Twitter look-alike app Gettr bills itself as a platform which is “defending free speech” & has become a safe space for divisive personalities & those spreading conspiracies about COVID-19 & President Joe Biden’s family.

2022 May 15, Echo Hui, Ariel Bogle, “Inside the secret chat rooms censoring critics on a pro-Trump ‘free speech’ social media app”, in ABC Premium News (wire feed), Sydney:

Gettr has proven to be popular in Brazil, and the platform may have played a role in the lead-up to a recent attack on Brazil’s Congress by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who has an account on the platform.

2023 February 1, “Key facts about Gettr”, in Pew Research Center:

An exiled Chinese tycoon indicted in New York earlier this month in a billion-dollar fraud case controls the conservative social media platform Gettr and used it to promote cryptocurrencies and propaganda, former employees have told The Washington Post.

2023 March 26, Joseph Menn, “Indicted Chinese exile controls Gettr, ex-employees say”, in The Washington Post, page A3:

(Internet, social media, politics, neologism) An alt-tech social media platform and microblogging site targeting American conservatives.


extreme risk protection order

en-noun

extreme risk protection order (plural extreme risk protection orders)

Extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws, sometimes known as gun violence restraining order or "red-flag" laws, are risk-based, temporary, and preemptive protective orders that authorize the removal of firearms from individuals determined to be at risk for committing gun violence against others or themselves. With ERPO laws in place, law enforcement, family members, or medical professionals can petition a court to temporarily restrict a person's access to firearms if they believe that person is at risk of hurting him or herself or others.

2023 January 10, “The Effects of Extreme Risk Protection Orders”, in RAND Corporation:

(law, government, politics, neologism) A court order issued upon petition of a law enforcement officer, family member, or household member that temporarily removes access to firearms from a person shown to be a danger to himself or herself or to others.


extreme risk law

extreme risk law (plural extreme risk laws)

Extreme risk laws allow a family member, law enforcement, or other key individuals as allowed by each state to present evidence to a civil court judge that an individual is a risk to themselves or others.

2022 April 23, “What Are Extreme Risk Laws?”, in Brady:

(law, politics, neologism) Synonym of red flag law.


manel

(feminism, informal, derogatory, neologism) A panel of speakers that fails to include any women.


postattack blackmail

Coined by military strategist Herman Kahn.

(military) The situation in which one state uses nuclear weapons to attack another state's retaliatory forces, and then threatens to attack the cities next if the weakened victim state retaliates.


QAnoner

Several hundred QAnoners set up camp along the Tampa Riverwalk on Jan. 11 to hear from the celebrities of their fringe conspiracy theory. "It's amazing to see the growth," said Jeffrey Pedersen, better known as "The Matrixxx." [image caption]

2020 January 16, Claire McNeill, “QAnon conspiracy theorists find kinship on the Tampa Riverwalk”, in Tampa Bay Times:

Dunking on fools may feel good, but humiliating QAnoners risks driving them further down the rabbit hole. And you should care because you might have a QAnon believer among your friends or family — and on Nov. 3, it’s possible several will be elected to Congress.

2020 October 26, Kirby Ferguson, “What Do We Do About Q?”, in The New York Times:

(US politics) A supporter of the QAnon movement; one who believes in the QAnon conspiracy theory.


Demonrat

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

From demon + rat, to sound like Democrat.

They develop far-fetched explanations for critiques of the president: The Mueller probe, for instance, must actually be a cover-up to buy time for a Trump-Mueller tag-team effort to bring down villainous, pedophile “Demonrats.”

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A Democrat.


JustinFlation

(Canada, politics, derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of Justinflation.


FEIE

foreign earned income exclusion
w:foreign earned income exclusion

(US, taxation) Initialism of foreign earned income exclusion.


opticalman

(US, military, historical) A member of the navy who specialized in the use of optical tools.


activities of daily living

activities of daily living pl (plural only)

(healthcare) A set of common daily activities, including bathing, feeding, and relieving oneself. A person’s ability or inability to perform them is used as a measurement of their functional status.

أنشطة الحياة اليومية

a set of common daily activities specified in healthcare, such as bathing, feeding or relieving oneself


Tsedenbalist

(communism, historical) A supporter of Tsedenbalism.


Skutnik

The name is thought to derive from Romanian scuti (“to absolve”); compare Romanian Scutelnici. The common noun comes from Martin Leonard Skutnik III, a guest at the 1982 State of the Union address; see quotations below.

When CNN’s Jeff Greenfield assured the crowd, “I haven't planted a skutnik here,” I stopped him: I had heard of a sputnik, the Russian word for the first Soviet satellite, but what was a skutnik? […] In 1995, the columnist William F. Buckley was one of the first to use the name as an eponym: “President Clinton was awash with Skutniks.”

2001 July 8, William Safire, “On Language”, in New York Times Magazine, The Way We Live Now, page 15:

The likes of Shea got added by the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan, who started what came to be called the Lenny Skutnik Moment, where an everyday person is plucked from the populace and placed in the first lady’s gallery. Martin L. Skutnik earned a seat in the gallery on Jan. 13, 1982, when, on the way home from work at the Congressional Budget Office, he jumped into the freezing Potomac River to save Priscilla Tirado, a passenger on an Air Florida plane that had crashed just after take-off.

[2003 January 28, Susan Campbell, “The Real State of the Union”, in Hartford Courant, page D2:

Since that time, people recognized by the president during the State of the Union address have been known by insiders as “Lenny Skutniks.” As in: “Who are the Lenny Skutniks tonight?” There's even an online quiz that invites you to guess who will be tonight's Lenny Skutniks (the list had not yet been revealed Monday). Skutnik, it seems, is a brand name.

2006 January 31, Richard Halicks, “STATE OF THE UNION: In the gallery tonight...”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, page A1:

Lenny Skutnik moments have been called “human props”, “gimmicks”, “practiced stagecraft”, but the virulence of the criticism from a president’s political opponents only serves to prove the effectiveness of the strategy.

2011, Stephen Frantzich, Honored Guests: Citizen Heroes and the State of the Union, →ISBN, page 22:

Ever since then, almost every State of the Union address has featured one or more “Skutniks,” or Americans who somehow embody everyday heroism, stoicism, victimhood, or identity politics.

2018 January 29, Nick Gillespie, “All the President’s Human Props”, in Reason.com:

Among Parson’s Skutniks this week were Mayor Lyda Krewson and the other mayors of Missouri’s four largest cities. They sat in the audience while the Republican governor talked about doing something about inner-city violence, but refused to outline any specific gun proposals.

2020 January 17, Tony Messenger, “Missouri has a Medicaid crisis involving 100,000 children, and Parson ignores it”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, page A2:

(US, jargon, politics, media) A guest at the State of the Union address or a similar political event.


Russiano

Russiano (plural Russianos or Russianoes)

Russianos (plural)
Russianoes (plural)
russiano (alternative)

Blend of Russia + Americano; From Russian, from English Americano, from Spanish americano, from Italian caffè americano, from being a version of the usual cup of American coffee. From the political climate in Russia and anti-Americanism. Folk etymology credits the coinage to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev in Russian in 2016, however, this is not correct, as the term already predates this, in Russian and in English.

(politics) Synonym of americano (“coffee”).


AEOI

(taxation) Initialism of automatic exchange of information.


jolloped

Argent, a Cock Gules, Armed, Crested, and Jolloped Or

1684, Richard Blome, An Essay to Heraldry, in two parts, page 181:

Sable, a cockatrice displayed argent, crested membered and jolloped gules.

1810, John Prince, Danmonii Orientales Illustres: Or, The Worthies of Devon, page 780:

The arms of this college are thus blazoned : Argent , a fess between three cocks' heads erased sable, crested and jolloped gules, all within a border entoyre of eight coronets, or.

1854, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae Or a Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, page 689:

Argent, three cocks' heads erased sable, membered and jolloped gules.

1862, Thomas Tonge, Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530:

(heraldry) Alternative form of jelloped.


SOIA

Security of Information Act
w:Security of Information Act

(Canadian politics, law) Initialism of Security of Information Act.


Left

Maybe it’s true that “the Left can’t meme,” if “the Left” refers to the earnest suburban revolutionary with an undercut and a nose ring who typically stalks your replies on X.

2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind:

(politics) The political left wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual left-wing political party.

aromauī

left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group


foreign aid

foreign aid (countable and uncountable, plural foreign aids)

Then the Republican-controlled Congress maintained foreign aid at $35bn, as in 2017, with funding for health and food largely unchanged.

2018 September 6, “America’s foreign-aid budget has proved surprisingly resilient”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

(economics, geopolitics) A voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.


counterembattled

Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu.

1860, Bernard Burke, A Selection of Arms Authorized by the Laws of Heraldry, page 34:

Shield of Beckingham. Argent a fess counterembattled between three escallops sable, impaling Gules within a border engrailed or a lion passant argent, late 14th-c.

1996, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, page 29:

(heraldry) Having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.


dunnite

From Dunn + -ite, after U.S. Army major Beverly Dunn, who developed it.

(military, historical) Ammonium picrate, used as an explosive.


ASN

Autorité de sûreté nucléaire
w:Autorité de sûreté nucléaire

(government) Abbreviation of Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (“Nuclear Safety Authority of France”).


Tammanyite

(politics) A person involved in Tammanyism.


in trian aspect

Related to trine (“threefold”), Latin tria (trēs).

In trian aspect means between passant and affronty. [...] Gules, on a mount vert a stork in trian aspect to the sinister[…]

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 24:

4 The Byrd arms show three gold stags' heads cut off at the neck ('erased') and turned to the viewer's left ('in trian aspect'), on a black ('sable') field. 'Sable' is confirmed by College[…]

2016 February 17, John Harley, The World of William Byrd: Musicians, Merchants and Magnates, Routledge, →ISBN:

Supporters — Dexter, a sea-lion azure, mane and head in trian aspect argent, langued gules, crowned with a crown tridenty gold; sinister, a seahorse azure, head and neck argent and crowned also with a crown tridenty gold,[…]

2020 April 20, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 4685:

(heraldry, rare) Positioned at such an angle as to show three-fourths of the figure: in between affronté (facing forward) and in profile. (When applied to creatures, chiefly found in modern rather than medieval heraldry.)


Blighty wound

(military slang) Synonym of Blighty one.


scope bite

(firearms) Injury during recoil as the scope hits one's face.


His Majesty's Opposition

The job of His Majesty's Opposition - especially as election time looms - is to provide well-worked-out alternatives to government plans, not to acquiesce in what could prove to be a disastrous policy for rail passengers.

2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 35:

(UK politics) A more formal title for the Official Opposition (the largest opposition party) in the House of Parliament, used when there is a king on the throne.


Parliamentary green

(UK, monarchy) A green color used by the House of Commons.


BHL

bleeding-heart libertarianism
w:bleeding-heart libertarianism

(politics) Initialism of bleeding-heart libertarianism.


enabling act

(politics) Legislation piece enacted by a legislative body that authorizes a dependent entity to exercise specific powers or undertake certain actions.

machtigingswet

law authorizing a dependent entity to take certain actions


USDS

It's significant that the first leader of the USDS was an SRE. The unit already had in its DNA a deep commitment to user-centered service design, through its initial inspiration by the UK's Government Digital Service and the Code for America team working on food stamps in California.

2017, Tim O'Reilly, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, Random House, →ISBN:

A claim by Gleason that Musk does not work for USDS was “contradicted” by Trump and Musk’s own statements, Cooper wrote in an opinion this month, and he pointed to news reports of orders from the president that Cabinet secretaries cooperate with DOGE on staffing issues.

2025 March 30, Tierney Sneed, “Is DOGE actually an agency? The answer could have major ramifications”, in CNN:

United States Digital Service
w:United States Digital Service

(US politics) Initialism of United States Digital Service.


on the hurry up

'Read the CAD as you go – on the hurry up please. Need you there as soon as possible. Make sure you let Control know when you're on scene.'

2018, Alice Vinten, On the Line: Life – and death – in the Metropolitan Police:

(UK, law enforcement, slang) At top speed; as fast as possible.


WOJG

(military) Initialism of warrant officer junior grade.


HAF

(military, aviation) Abbreviation of Hellenic Air Force The air force of Greece.

(military, aviation) Abbreviation of Honduran Air Force The air force of Honduras.

Headquarters, Air Force
w:Headquarters, United States Air Force

(US, military, aviation) Abbreviation of Headquarters, Air Force (United States Air Force Headquarters) The general staff bureau of the United States Air Force.


mixed martial artist

mixed martial artist (plural mixed martial artists)

mixed martial arts
mixed martial arts#English

(sports, martial arts) A competitor in mixed martial arts


ingulphant

Per pale azure and purpure, three whales' heads erased or, each ingulphant of a spear-head argent, were the arms borne by Sir Hugh Vaughan of Littleton in Middlesex, in the reign of Henry VIII; and were quartered with[…]

1842, Thomas Moule, Heraldry of Fish: Notices of the Principal Families Bearing Fish in Their Arms, London : J. van Voorst, page 48:

[…] dolphins haurient, respectant and ingulphant of the flukes of an anchor reversed all proper; on a chief azure three mullets of the first.

1920, Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, page 766:

(heraldry, of a fish, whale, etc, uncommon) Swallowing.


supertorpedo

supertorpedo (plural supertorpedos or supertorpedoes)

supertorpedos (plural)
supertorpedoes (plural)

More than the battleship, the cruiser is one of the principal agents of this work, and all friends of the navy will rejoice that twenty-three of the war-built vessels, many of them but fragile supertorpedo craft, are now to be replaced by up-to-date ships, better designed and equipped for service in the outer oceans.

1925, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, United States Naval Institute Proceedings 1925-10: Volume 51, Issue 10, United States Naval Institute, page 1975:

Hydrobomb tests are made in this 500-foot tank with underwater observation windows. The electric-powered tow car is lowered to the tracks at either side of the tank, completely straddling it when in operation. Still experimental, this plane-borne supertorpedo can carry a heavier charge twice as fast as current types[.]

1941, Hearst Magazines, Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 85:

The same sort of weapon can be shot in missiles, used in mines, launched in supertorpedoes of long range, aimed at coastal cities from far at sea, etc., etc., ad nauseam.

1957, Philip Wylie, The Innocent Ambassadors, Rinehart, page 89:

Because the destroyer is generally considered the most versatile of modern naval vessels, it follows that dift'erent navies and commanders have held divergent views as to its proper role. No fleet commander has ever considered that he had enough destroyers; and yet, as is shown in the paragraphs which follow, destroyers have been in great demand for specialized activities such as antisubmarine warfare in all phases. The destroyer started as a supertorpedo boat, and the torpedo has remained one of its primary weapons, but the passing of the battle line has not decreased the demand for destroyers. Destroyers may be compared with the cavalry of a former day and the tanks of a modern army.

1966, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge: Volume 7, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 309:

They lose time when their small control ship is damaged, and the raider battleship runs afoul of an American naval vessel that is testing a new supertorpedo.

1990, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-Fiction, the Early Years, Kent State University Press, page 506:

(military) A particularly powerful torpedo.


ASuW

anti-surface warfare
anti-surface warfare#English

(military, nautical) Abbreviation of anti-surface warfare.


Jamaica coalition

Jamaica coalition (plural Jamaica coalitions)

Calque of German Jamaika-Koalition. The symbolic colors of the three parties correspond to the colors of the flag of Jamaica: black for the CDU, yellow for the FDP, and green for the Greens.

Actually, the most likely government, a so-called Jamaica coalition of chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats with the FDP and Greens, could bring some good news for the eurozone.

2017 September 29, Guntram Wolff, “A Jamaican Germany is good for Europe”, in Financial Times:

Despite pressure on the CDU’s Armin Laschet to relinquish his claim to a place in government after the party returned its historically worst ever result, he is forging ahead in his attempts to woo both the Greens and the pro-business FDP to form a CDU-led Jamaica coalition, so-called due to yellow, black and green colours of the three parties matching those of Jamaica’s flag.

2021 October 5, Kate Connolly, “Germany’s Greens and CDU report ‘constructive’ coalition talks”, in The Guardian:

(German politics) A German governing coalition among the parties of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the Greens.

Alliance 90/The Greens
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Free Democratic Party (Germany)
flag of Jamaica


levy en masse

levies en masse (plural)
levée en masse (alternative)
levy in mass (alternative)

Partial calque of French levée en masse (literally “mass levy”).

partial calque

(military) A requisition of all able-bodied men for military service.


hot poop

Then the Seventh moved to Fort Ord and practiced—although without full equipment—amphibious landings. The hot poop of the rumor mongers became, “Southwest Pacific for us, fellows.” But when the convoy sailed from San Francisco on April twenty-fourth, the ships turned north.

1947, Murray Morgan, Bridge To Russia: Those Amazing Aleutians, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 161:

Maybe Colonel Fang's going to give us the hot poop regarding this midnight mission.

1986, United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command, The MAC Flyer, volume 33, page 22:

(US, military, slang) The latest news or gossip.


slingload

slingloads (plural)
sling load (alternative)

(military) A load suspended from an aircraft, usually a helicopter, and carried to a new location.


cut slingload

en-verb

cut slingload (third-person singular simple present cuts slingload, present participle cutting slingload, simple past and past participle cut slingload)

cuts slingload (present singular third-person)
cutting slingload (participle present)
cut slingload (participle past)
cut slingload (past)
cut sling load (alternative)

(military, literal) To release a slingload by severing the sling.


lumpy jumper

Alluding to the shape of a woman's breasts visible through clothing.

One of the cooks was a lumpy jumper (female soldier) who looked at home, her male colleague standing by her side seemed to be the more industrious […]

Pete MC Hough, Stabs: Raw Recruits (page 45)

"Don't take it personally, Gillian, dear, but for me, WAAFs are a bit, well, stodgy. You know the men call them 'lumpy jumpers,' don't you? The German women, well...All their men are gone, so they're hungry for male attention. This one works in the canteen and has a nicer figure than the bony ones you see in Berlin."

'Good grief,' a man's voice brayed as Teddy pushed open the door, 'a lumpy-jumper!' […] Teddy dumped her flying kit on a nearby chair and introduced herself.

2021, Robert Webber, Teddy's War, page 59:

(military slang) A woman; a female member of the military.


Regio Esercito

Unadapted borrowing from Italian Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army).

unadapted borrowing

The popularity of the Regio Esercito was also enhanced by bringing an effective health service system to the region.

2015 December 30, Emanuele Sica, Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera: Italy's Occupation of France, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 71:

(history, military) The Kingdom of Italy’s army.


Denikinite

(historical, politics) A follower of Anton Denikin.


midnight appointment

en-noun

midnight appointment (plural midnight appointments)

(politics) The appointment of a new person to a role by the existing holder of the role, very shortly before leaving office.


NYSD

electoral district
electoral district#English

New York State Senate
w:en:New York State Senate

State of New York
State of New York#English

(US politics) Initialism of New York State senate district; An electoral district in the New York State Senate, for the state senate of the State of New York.


battleskies

Because military planes are worth more than their weight in gold when they're badly needed — and such is usually the case in the battleskies of the world today — Uncle Sam has developed the world's best masters of improvisation in his globe-covering Army Air Forces Air Service Command, the outfit that literally "keeps 'em flying."

1944, The Curtiss Flyleaf, volumes 27-28, page 3:

War Production Board poster
Production is your Protection - Back Up Our Battleskies!

(military) The portions of airspace in which a military conflict is taking place.


antimechanized

(military) Countering mechanized fighting vehicles such as tanks.


torpedo-boat destroyer

torpedo-boat destroyer (plural torpedo-boat destroyers)

torpedo-boat destroyers (plural)
torpedo boat destroyer (alternative)

From torpedo boat + destroyer. From being a type of combatant originally specialized to counter the newly introduced torpedo boat.

(historical, nautical, military) Former name of destroyer.


torpedo boat destroyer

torpedo boat destroyer (plural torpedo boat destroyers)

torpedo-boat destroyer
torpedo-boat destroyer#English

(historical, nautical, military) Alternative form of torpedo-boat destroyer.


(Malaysia, politics) Abbreviation of race, religion, royalty (“referring to the Malay race, Islam, and the monarchy of Malaysia, three sensitive topics in the country”).


Verkhovna Rada

From Ukrainian Верхо́вна Ра́да (Verxóvna Ráda, “Supreme Council”).

bor

Верхо́вна Ра́да


Right

the Right (canonical)
right (alternative)

Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly.

2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind:

(politics) The political right wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual right-wing political party.

aromatau

right-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding right-wing views as a group


cyber transport systems

en-noun

cyber transport systems pl (plural only)

(US, military, electronics) Synonym of computer networking.


cyber transport system

cyber transport system (plural cyber transport systems)

(US, military, electronics) Synonym of computer network.


full screw

It was especially important when I was promoted to the rank of staff sergeant, with all its additional responsibilities. I'd loved being a fullscrew – a corporal – because I was still one of the lads and didn’t have too much else to think about.

2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 111:


BAOR

British Army of the Rhine
w:British Army of the Rhine

(military, historical) Initialism of British Army of the Rhine.


Ali Baba bag

A reference to the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, in which the thieves hide in large oil jars; perhaps based on the idea that the bag is large enough to fit a person. Compare senses of Ali Baba related to large containers.

Each enlistee leaves.. with items packed into a duffel bag more commonly known as the ‘Ali-Baba’ bag.

2015, Martin Choo, editor, The Singapore Armed Forces, 1981, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English:

To the young recruit who is already carrying a civilian bag packed with his belongings and spare civilian clothing, the Ali Baba bag is a man-size load.

2015, Mickey Chiang, Fighting Fit: The Singapore Armed Forces, 1990, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English:

Upon completion, you can redeem a mini Ali Baba bag! My goodness, I’ve been waiting for so many years to get rid of that bag, and now my wife and kids are trying to get a few more Ali Baba bags….

2007 May 21, laokokok, “BMT to ROD”, in Times of My Life, retrieved 2023-04-16:

(Singapore military slang) A soldier's duffel bag.


cyber transport

(US, military, electronics) Synonym of networked (“computer networked”); pertaining to computer networks and computer networking


panic party

(nautical, military) A group of sailors given the task of pretending to abandon ship, so as to encourage a submarine to approach so that it can be attacked.


Pedersen device

Pedersen device (plural Pedersen devices)

Developed by John Pedersen (arms designer).

(firearms) An experimental weapon attachment for the M1903 Springfield bolt action rifle that allowed it to fire a .30 caliber (7.62 mm) pistol-type cartridge in semi-automatic mode.


PLAAF

People's Liberation Army Air Force
w:People's Liberation Army Air Force

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

(aviation, military) Abbreviation of People's Liberation Army Air Force The national air force of the People's Republic of China.


status quo warrior

status quo warrior (plural status quo warriors)

status quo warriors (plural)
SQW (alternative)

The SJW approach seems to have inspired a reaction from an equally impassioned group, the so-called “Status Quo Warriors” or SQWs [...]

2019, Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence, page 159:

Scratch a critic of social justice warriors and a status quo warrior bleeds.

2020, John Faithful Hamer, Social Distancing: Poems and Aphorisms, Likeville Books:

social justice warrior
social justice warrior

(neologism, derogatory, politics) A person who zealously promotes or defends socially static or regressive policies; the antithesis of social justice warrior.


pay-for

The government is debating whether to include various pay-fors in order to fund the new infrastructure bill.

The bill is instead paid for by a jumble of pay-fors, including $40 billion from the Federal Reserve surplus account, which acts as a cushion to help the Fed take potential losses.

2015 December 1, Jason Plautz, “After Years of Waiting, Congress Finally Has Its Long-Term Transportation Bill”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-01:

Why is it, she [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] retorts, that these questions arise only in connection with useful ideas, not wasteful ideas? Where were the 'pay-fors' for [George] Bush's $5 trillion wars and tax cuts, or for last year's $2 trillion tax giveaway to billionaires?

2019 January 16, Robert Hockett, “The Green New Deal: How We Will Pay For It Isn't 'A Thing' - And Inflation Isn't Either”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

With the passage of a deficit-financed $1.9 trillion relief bill just hours away, Democrats in Congress may soon pivot to new agenda items, including President Biden's Build Back Better plan for infrastructure and other critical investments. And those lawmakers will inevitably face intense pressure from fiscal moderates to include tax "pay fors" in spending legislation.

2021 March 10, Chye-Ching Huang, “How Biden Funds His Next Bill: Shrink the $7.5 Trillion Tax Gap”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-16:

"Other industries were probably better prepared to fend off being a pay-for," said Ed Mills, Washington policy analyst at Raymond James. "This is the first time they've really been on the menu."

2021 August 9, Victoria Guida, “Washington wakes up to crypto influence amid infrastructure fight”, in Politico, archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

(US, politics) Something which is used to pay for a bill, such as an increase in taxes.


EFSA

European Food Safety Authority
w:European Food Safety Authority

(EU politics) Initialism of European Food Safety Authority.


Govian

en-adj

Govian (comparative more Govian, superlative most Govian)

more Govian (comparative)
most Govian (superlative)

Polly Toynbee is spot on in her excoriation of Govian Gradgrindery. The inevitable marginalisation of the supposedly "soft" arts subjects in the state sector is a scandal.

2013 November 7, Ian Barge, “Children must learn to question, not simply obey”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics) Relating to British politician Michael Gove (1967–).


Black Tulip

Black Tulips (plural)
black tulip (alternative)

black+tulip. Calque of Russian Чёрный тюльпан (Čórnyj tjulʹpan). From the use of the aircraft as a means to repatriate corpses of fallen soldiers. From the use of black tulips and other flowers to border obituaries. Originating as a nickname used by Soviet aircrews of the repatriation transport missions during the Afghan War, and popularized by Alexander Rezenbaum in a popular Soviet song, before migrating into English.

calque

Чёрный тюльпан

(military, aviation) Synonym of Antonov An-12 (“Soviet-era turboprop cargoplane”).


electocracy

(government) A political system in which people can elect their government but cannot participate directly in governmental decision making.


Scexit

Blend of Scotland + exit, by analogy with Brexit.

As Brexit becomes a settled fact of life, it will still be a cause of remainer grievance. But it could also fuel reluctance to go through the same trauma all over again as “Scexit”. […] The message that Scexit would be even worse than Brexit can still be delivered, just not by Johnson himself.

2021 February 9, Rafael Behr, “Sturgeon and Johnson have made Scottish independence seem inevitable. It isn't”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The (possible) act of Scotland becoming independent from the United Kingdom.


KMAG

(US, military, slang) Abbreviation of kiss my ass guys/goodbye.


detective inspector

en-noun

detective inspector (plural detective inspectors)

detective inspectors (plural)
DI (alternative abbreviation)

(UK, law enforcement) A police rank used in Commonwealth countries.


JWICS

(US, military, espionage) Acronym of Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System.


overhook

He used overhooks to block the punches, but he didn't seem to know any submissions off the overhooks.

2005, Eddie Bravo, Jiu-jitsu Unleashed, page 12:

(wrestling, martial arts) A clinch hold performed by putting an arm over the opponent's arm, and encircling the opponent's arm or upper body.


overhook

en-verb

overhook (third-person singular simple present overhooks, present participle overhooking, simple past and past participle overhooked)

overhooks (present singular third-person)
overhooking (participle present)
overhooked (participle past)
overhooked (past)

Overhook one of his arms just above the elbow (here the right arm overhooks the opponent's left arm).

2004, Mark Hatmaker, No Holds Barred Fighting: Savage Strikes, page 128:

(wrestling, martial arts, transitive) To use such a hold upon.


baka bomb

From Japanese 馬鹿(ばか) (baka, “stupid; foolish”) + bomb. By surface analysis, baka (“stupid; silly”) + bomb, though it pre-dates the borrowing of baka as an independent term from Japanese (which is chiefly associated with Japanese popular culture), and therefore lacks any of the endearing connotations that are now typically associated with it.
Coined within the United States Navy during the Pacific Theater of World War 2, in reference to the fact that the Ohka had been specifically designed to carry out kamikaze attacks, the belief that these attacks were a counterproductive military strategy for Imperial Japan, and the common assumption that kamikaze pilots were mindless zealots.

surf

(military, slang, historical) The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a rocket-powered, human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft employed by Japan against Allied ships towards the end of the Pacific War.

Imperial Japan
Japanese popular culture
Pacific Theater
United States Navy
World War 2


morning report

(US, military, historical) A document produced every morning for every basic unit of the United States army, detailing personnel changes for the previous day.


drum magazine

(firearms) A high-capacity cylindrical magazine for firearms, storing rounds of ammunition in a central spiral.


officer down

(law enforcement) A police officer has been critically wounded, incapacitated, or killed.


Marquis of Queensberry rules

marquis + Queensberry + rule. Named after Scottish nobleman John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry

named-after

Marquis of Queensberry Rules (alternative)
Marquess of Queensberry Rules (alternative)
Marquess of Queensberry rules (alternative)

Queensberry rules
Queensberry rules#English

(sports, boxing) Synonym of Queensberry rules.


enzuigiri

(wrestling) An attack that strikes the back of the opponent's head.


war elephant

During the Second Punic War, 218-201 BCE, Hannibal trekked 37 war elephants across the Alps from what is now Spain into Italy.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 273:

(military, historical) Any elephant trained and guided by humans for combat.


standing eight

(boxing) An eight-second count called by the referee during a match, to determine whether one of the boxers is fit to continue.


chiefie

And did you know the Chiefie said that one of our kites went in the drink last night?

Avoiding the Taceval man's gaze the 'chiefie' winked and pulled a face.

2017, Richard Pike, Phantom Boys, volume 2:


fly baker

en-verb

fly baker (third-person singular simple present flies baker, present participle flying baker, simple past flew baker, past participle flown baker)

flies baker (present singular third-person)
flying baker (participle present)
flew baker (past)
flown baker (participle past)

A reference to a red danger flag used in an early phonetic alphabet.


erminee

Ultimately from Old French erminé. Either inherited from Middle English ermyne (adjective) or borrowed more recently from French erminé(e).

erminée (alternative)
erminé (alternative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:erminee.

(heraldry) Of a cross: made up of four ermine spots arranged in the shape of a cross.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:erminée.


mound royal

(heraldry) orb (surmonted by a cross), mound, globus cruciger


hittile

A play on missile with miss changed to hit.

The U.S. anti-satellite programme is currently based on a three-stage non-exploding rocket or 'hittile' launched from an F-15 fighter.

1983, Andrew Wilson, The Disarmer's Handbook of Military Technology and Organization, page 83:

Rapier is a hittile and so has a simple blast warhead of under 1 kg weight.

1998, R. Geoffrey Lee, Guided Weapons, page 222:

(military, informal) An anti-aircraft or anti-satellite missile that is designed to hit its target, distinguished from a missile that is designed to explode near its target.


neo-Sovietism

(politics) A political approach resembling that of the former Soviet Union.


VLOP

Tech platforms must reach at least 45 million monthly active users in the EU in order to be designated VLOPs or VLSEs.

2023 April 25, Dan Milmo, “‘Unprepared’ Twitter among tech firms to face tough new EU digital rules”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(EU politics, DSA) Initialism of very large online platform.


VLOSE

(EU politics, DSA) Initialism of very large online search engine.


amphithere

(heraldry, fantasy) Alternative form of amphiptere.


counter-courant

(heraldry) Depicted running in opposite directions.


guivre

The guivre / The legless and wingless guivre would have seemed a mere serpent, albeit an immensely powerful one, except for its massive dragon head, horned and bearded. Guivres liked to live in forests and wells—anywhere near water[…]

(heraldry, mythology) A serpentine creature, variously one with no limbs (like a simple snake, but often depicted swallowing someone), or with wings and only two legs (a wyvern).


black notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking information on unidentified dead bodies.


green notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol warning about the criminal activities of a person considered to be a possible threat to public safety.


blue notice

A 26-year-old woman named ‘S A’ “was identified as a DAESH (Islamic State) terrorist wanted with a ‘blue notice’,” the tweet said. An Interpol blue notice is issued to collect additional information about a person’s identity, location or activities in relation to a crime.

2021 February 15, “Turkey catches New Zealanders linked to Isis entering from Syria”, in The Guardian:

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking to locate, identify or obtain information on a person of interest in a criminal investigation.


yellow notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking to locate a missing person or to identify a person unable to identify themselves.


orange notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol warning of an imminent threat and danger to persons or property.


purple notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol providing information on modi operandi, procedures, objects, devices, or hiding places used by criminals.


plumeté

(heraldry) Alternative form of plumetty.


Maggie's drawers

(military, slang) A red flag used on a firing range to indicate that a shot entirely missed the target.


CBDC

digital currency
digital currency#English

(finance, electronics, government) Abbreviation of central bank digital currency.


in splendor

Richard II. — The cross of St. George, argent and vert; a hart lodged argent, attired, unguled, ducally gorged and chained or, between four suns in splendor,— Dieu et Mon. Two suns in splendor,— Droyt. Four suns in splendor.^([sic])

1880, George Henry Preble, History of the Flag of the United States of America, Boston: A. Williams and Company, pages 136–137:

(heraldry, of a sun) Depicted with a human face.


technical group

en-noun

technical group (plural technical groups)

Such groups are formed for "technical" reasons, so that members enjoy rights or benefits that would remain unavailable to them outside a formally recognised parliamentary group.

(politics) A heterogeneous parliamentary group composed of elected officials from political parties of differing ideologies (or independent of any party) who are not numerous enough to form groups on their own.


Congressite

(India, politics) A member of the Indian National Congress, an Indian political party.


in glory

Arms : party per fess Azure and Sable, three suns in their glory, impaling, Argent, on a chevron Sable, before three hawks' heads erased proper, as many cinquefoils of the field. Crest : on a wreath a garb Or. Sacred to the[…]

1842, William Robinson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Stoke Newington in the County of Middlesex: Containing an Account of the Prebendal Manor, the Church, Charities, Schools, Meeting Houses, &c., with Appendices ..., page 166:

The sun is usually given 'in his glory,' or splendour, and represented by a human face, surrounded with sixteen rays of glory - see the Arms of Richmond, 'Gu. the sun in his glory, Arg.' Occasionally it is 'eclipsed,' the tincture being then sable.

1857, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, page 146:

However on 9 Feb. 1585-6 he was awarded to pay 400 marks, and to leave goods to the value of £ 20. Arms : A. on a fess betw. 3 bibles G. a falcon rising O. betw. 2 suns in their glory. Granted by sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter king[…]

1861, Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses: 1586-1609, page 168:

Az. three suns in their glory or.

1864, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 1161:

Az. a sun in its glory Or. [ST. CLERE.]

1871, William Harvey, The Visitations of the County of Oxford Taken in the Years 1566 by William Harvey, Clarencieux ; 1574 by Richard Lee, Portcullis ; and in 1634 by John Philpott, Somerset, and William Ryley, Bluemantle, ... ; Together with the Gatherings of Oxfordshire, Collected by Richard Lee in 1574, page 48:

Gu. two bars erm. in chief three suns in glory or. NICHOLSON, Ballow House, co. Down; derived from Nicholson of Cumberland; quartering STEELE.[…]

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 29:

Sa. the sun in his glory between nine stars arg., 3, 2, 3 and 1. BAILLIE OF JERVISWOOD. Sa. the sun in his glory between nine stars arg., 3, 2, 3 and 1, a crescent for difference. BAILLIE OF MANORHALL.

1893, Sir James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 217:

Gules, two bars ermine in chief three suns in glory or -- NICHOLSON, Co. Down.[…]

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 558:


JCS

Joint Chiefs of Staff
w:Joint Chiefs of Staff

(US politics) Initialism of Joint Chiefs of Staff.


in increment

... dexter, per fess on a chief azure, the moon in increment argent; in base, gules, a bear passant proper; sinister, the national eagle displayed, with the radiant All-seeing eye above, but no tinctures are indicated.

1900, American Journal of Numismatics, page 22:

[...] between fesswise a crescent moon in her increment and one in her decrement argent.

1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco:


in decrement

It is an observation amongst Fishermen, that when the Moon is in her Decrement or Wane (as we commonly call it) these […]

1664, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie, page 238:

[…] Crest - A fawn's head holding in its mouth a moon in its decrement and gorged with a wreath of pears slipped on the […]

1921, Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, page 750:

LUKIN -2- A : Argent, on a bendlet thrice embattled gules, masoned sable, three crescent moons in their decrement in bend Or. […] […] between fesswise a crescent moon in her increment and one in her decrement argent.


of the colours

CREST – Upon a torce of the colours, a swan's neck and breast, with wings displayed, proper.

1801, William Betham, The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families: With Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Armorial Bearings, page 306:

Crests - 1. on a wreath of the colours, a cock proper, charged with a crescent gules (Corry); 2. on a wreath of the colours, a garland between two laurel branches vert (Lowry)[…]

1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 1025:

The shield is ensigned by a helmet to dexter with mantlings or and gules, and surmounted by the crest; out of a torse of the colours a lion rampant issuant or.

1915, Rowland Winn St. Oswald (2d Baron of), Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St. Oswald at Nostell Priory, page 290:

Unless other tinctures are specified, the torse, like the mantling, is of the colours, i.e. of the principal metal and the principal colour.

1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers, page 155:

(heraldry, of a wreath, torse, etc) Having, in alternating sections, the principal metal and principal colour of the associated arms.


Gold Democrat

(US politics, historical) A member or supporter of the National Democratic Party (United States).


in vigilance

Arms : Azure standing within a crown gold surmounting a conical mound in base vert a crane in her vigilance all silver.

1928, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Committee on Heraldry, A Roll of Arms, page 10:

Or, a crane in her vigilance, azure, standing in reeds proper.

1943, National Americana Society, Americana Illustrated, page 133:

Quarterly; 1st and 4th azure, crane in his vigilance argent, gorged of a crown or; second and third[…]

1973, Helen B. Walter, Robert J. Walter, Nicola Walter and Descendants:

If by chance it falls asleep, the stone would drop and thus awaken it. In heraldry, the cranes most often were presented as in vigilance.

1977, Lucia Liu Severinghaus, A Design for an Education Center at the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin:

Crest. A crane in its vigilance. Motto. Vigilantia (Seal on Col Paumiér's will).

1983, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society:

KHVOSHCHINSKY -1- A : Per fess gules and azure, in chief fesswise a crescent points couped in pale Or, and in base a crane in its vigilance, proper.

(heraldry, of a crane) Standing on one leg, typically holding a stone in its other, raised leg.


cross potence

Chace, Gu. four crosses potence ar. two and two; on a canton az, a lion passant or.

1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:

Crest - A lion ramp. or, holding betw. his feet a cross potence gu.

1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland:

(heraldry) Alternative form of cross potent.


cross potent

(heraldry) A cross with crossbars at the ends of its arms.


in full aspect

Mexico - Arms : ar. upon a rock, issuant from the sea in base, the nopal or tuna plant, thereon an eagle in full aspect, wings expanded, the head towards the dexter, holding in the beak a snake or serpent bowed embowed, all ppr[…]

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 1:

Perch / Or an eagle in full aspect gu. standing on a perch issuing out of the sinister side arg.

1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 312:


en arrière

Argent, a Bend between six Bees en Arrière Sable : BEESTON.

1790, Anthony Wood, The history and antiquities of the colleges and halls in the university of Oxford, page 256:

[…] a chevron between two boars ' heads erased in chief and a bee volant en arrière in base all counterchanged.

1902, Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Others, page 225:

The arms of Bassano (really of foreign origin and not an English coat) are : “ Per chevron vert and argent, in chief three silkworm flies palewise en arrière, and in base a mulberry branch all counterchanged.

1925, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 261:

(heraldry, chiefly of an insect) With its back to the viewer.


coupy

William MEINARD, Lord MEINARD, Argent, a Cheveron Azure, between three sinister Hands erected coupy, at the Wrest Gules. This Family was ancient in England; the Heads of which served under Prince Edward, called the Black Prince[…]

1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 269:

[...] hee may bee Distinguished from the vulgar sort of people and thereupon haue assigned unto him this Coate and Creast ensewing, vidzt Argent three Torteuxes and a cheife Gules and for his Creast a horse head Coupy Argent mained[…]

1925, Willoughby Aston Littledale, A Collection of Miscellaneous Grants, Crests, Confirmations, Augmentations and Exemplifications of Arms in the Mss. Preserved in the British Museum, Ashmolean Library, Queen's College, Oxford, and Elsewhere, page 15:

(heraldry, obsolete) Alternative form of coupé i.e. couped.


JBS

(US politics) Initialism of John Birch Society, an American right-wing political advocacy group.


FAM

“I ultimately decided to leave (retire) because I was denied the ability to leverage my experience for the good of the FAMs and I realize that I was part of a system which was putting the emotional well-being of FAMs at risk,” Kathleen Christian, who resigned last year as a clinical psychologist with the federal air marshals, said on Nov. 17 in a scathing email to several marshals.

2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times:

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of federal air marshal.


pairle

Azure, a Pairle Or.

1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 195:

As to its position, examples of its use in bend, in saltire, and even in pairle, are to be found without difficulty. It may be well to remark that the position of charges in pairle is a very common one in German heraldry,[…]

1886, Walford Dakin Selby, The Genealogist, page 228:

The trail entered Covington from the northeast and went out through Conecuh. In general, Conecuh, Butler, and Covington Counties are at the three ends of a Y (pairle). By notching the pairle the old trail is exactly indicated.

1928, United States. National Guard Bureau, Official National Guard Register, page 58:


Corporation

In one respect at least the Corporation acts as the superior body: it imposes on the House of Commons a figure called the remembrancer: an official lobbyist who sits behind the Speaker's chair and ensures that, whatever our elected representatives might think, the City's rights and privileges are protected.

2011 October 31, George Monbiot, “The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

City of London Corporation
City of London Corporation#English

(UK politics) Ellipsis of City of London Corporation.


Sunakian

en-adj

Sunakian (comparative more Sunakian, superlative most Sunakian)

more Sunakian (comparative)
most Sunakian (superlative)

If Sunak is highly regarded by his colleagues, he does not have a dedicated group of supporters in Parliament: there is no Sunakian equivalent of the Portillistas, the Brownites, or the Friends of Dave.

2020, Michael Ashcroft, Going for Broke: The Rise of Rishi Sunak, London: Biteback Publishing, →ISBN, page unknown:

With the markets duly placated by Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement, some senior Tories even began to worry that Sunakian stability and fiscal orthodoxy would be too boring a platform on which to face Labour at the next election.

2022 December 7, “The Guardian view on Sunak and the strikes: misreading the mood of the nation”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) Of or pertaining to Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.


Portillista

Yet despite that pedigree, he describes himself as "essentially a Portillista" – liberal on social affairs, centre-right on economics.

2001 October 3, Matthew Tempest, “New Labour's power-dressed future”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) A political supporter of Michael Portillo (born 1953), British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician.


DeSantisian

DeSantisian (comparative more DeSantisian, superlative most DeSantisian)

more DeSantisian (comparative)
most DeSantisian (superlative)

It was all very Trumpian. Or, perhaps it is more accurate to say, very DeSantisian. Because this governor was on a mission. If Trump decided to bid for the presidency again in 2024, the word was, DeSantis wanted to be his running mate.

2022, John Nichols, “Ron DeSantis’s Imperial Overreach”, in Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis, London: Verso, →ISBN, page 165:

In a thread responding to her friend’s tweet, by the way, Mandel echoed DeSantisian politics, suggesting that those who disagreed with her might be groomers.

2023 March 15, Philip Bump, “A viral moment reinforces the hollowness of ‘woke’ as an attack”, in The Washington Post:

Marge exclaims that David is a masterpiece. 'It's filth! It graphically portrays parts of the human body which, practical as they may be, are evil,' replies one of the DeSantisian sisters.

2023 April 8, Atanu Biswas, “How Michelangelo’s David continues to scandalise many”, in The Economic Times:

(US politics) Of or pertaining to Ron DeSantis (born 1978), American politician.


DOPE

DOPEs (plural)
D.O.P.E. (alternative)
D. O. P. E. (alternative)

(military) Acronym of data on previous engagement.


IHAT

Iraq Historic Allegations Team
w:Iraq Historic Allegations Team

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of Iraq Historic Allegations Team.


appalmed

[…] The term is however quite needless, as every hand not blazoned as aversant, or dorsed, is supposed to be appalmed.

1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 11:

[...] on a ffess Argent 3 dex : hands appalm'd G. / Crest, on a Wreath a Lion ramp. Or in his Mouth a Hand Gules (cf. Mylles, Visit. London 1568, Harl. Soc., Vol. I., p. 11).

1908, Thomas Benolt, The Four Visitations of Berkshire, page 180:

[...] the vertical staff surmounted by an appalmed hand bearing the motto, Fiducia concors, [...]

2007, Timothy Wilks, Prince Henry Revived: Image and Exemplarity in Early Modern England, Paul Holberton Publishing:

(heraldry, uncommon) Synonym of appaumé.


tricorporated

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tricorporated.


bicorporated

Vert, a bicorporated lion sejant guardant […]

1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London : T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 426:


FLOT

(US, military) forward line of own troops, front line


FLET

(US, military) forward line of enemy troops, front line


BIS

Until recently, the BIS has not asked colleges to submit audited accounts and demonstrate a financially sustainable business plan. […] What is certain is that the size of the outlay caught BIS off guard and the impact has already been felt by students at established universities.

2014 May 21, Andrew McGettigan, Shiv Malik, John Domokos, “Private sector and students profit at the college they call 'the ATM'”, in The Guardian:

w:Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

(UK, government) Initialism of Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.


Calvary cross

Calvary crosses (plural)
cross Calvary (alternative)
cross calvary (alternative)

Arms of Baldwin : Gules, on a chevron or between three Calvary crosses argent, as many slips of laurel fructed proper; with an inescocheon, Azure, within barrulets or, three escallops fessways erminois, in chief an etoile […] Crest, a squirrel or, sejant upon a hazel-branch fructed turned up behind his back, the dexter paw holding a slip of the same proper, the sinister paw resting upon a Calvary cross sable.

1864, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, page 57:

[...] in the Notitia Monastica it is a Calvary cross sable, standing on a basis of two steps, and fimbriated or. Or the device may have belonged to some guild or fraternity among the townsmen of Nottingham. Thoroton mentions one more[…]

1867, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 168:

The arms are argent, a Calvary cross gules. Is the name identical with our Brignal so common in the county of Durham, and which probably originates from Brignal near Rokeby?

(heraldry) A cross atop a platform of (typically three) stepped tiers.


VPOTUS

(US politics) Acronym of Vice President of the United States.


question of privilege

en-noun

question of privilege (plural questions of privilege)

parliamentary procedure
parliamentary procedure

(politics) In parliamentary procedure, a request related to the rights and privileges of the assembly or any of its members.


air staff

(military, aviation) The chief commander, flag officers, and bureau in charge of a military's air branch. The headqaurters general staff of an air force.


run point

en-verb

run point (third-person singular simple present runs point, present participle running point, simple past ran point, past participle run point)

runs point (present singular third-person)
running point (participle present)
ran point (past)
run point (participle past)

John hustled to the front and ran point. Three armed Hezbollah men appeared from the barracks to their right. John stopped, planted his feet, and fired from the standing position: pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop.

2013, Howard E[ugene] Wasdin, Stephen Templin, Easy Day for the Dead: A SEAL Team Six Outcasts Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 194:

(military) Synonym of take point (“to assume the first and most exposed position in a formation”).


IAZ

(military, historical) Initialism of Inner Artillery Zone.


Trump train

(US politics, informal) Political support for Donald Trump.


papelonné

papelonny (alternative)
pappellony (alternative)
papellony (alternative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:papelonné.

(heraldry) Divided into a pattern (counted as one of the heraldic furs) which resembles scales, such as are found on fish or on butterflies' wings, perhaps originally representing stylized feathers or diaper. (Compare escaloped, plumetty.)


escartelly

(heraldry) Having a single square perturbance in the middle (of a line).


ret'd

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, right, chats with Lt. General (ret'd) Andrew Leslie following Leslie's speech on day two of the Liberal Party of Canada's biennial convention in Montreal.

2014 September 5, Joan Bryden, “'Nixonian' Tory entrapment tactics blasted by Liberals”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2022-08-12:

(especially military) Abbreviation of retired.


teflonish

en-adj

teflonish (comparative more teflonish, superlative most teflonish)

more teflonish (comparative)
most teflonish (superlative)
Teflonish (alternative)

(politics) Being teflon (“does not stick”) or rubber (“bounces off”), not having accusations besmirch a person


butterfly bomb

From the shape of the bomb when its cylindrical outer shell was hinged open.

(military, historical) A German two-kilogram antipersonnel submunition used by the Luftwaffe.


camouflage discipline

(military) The practice of careful movement etc. so as to maintain camouflage.


per fess

per fess gules and argent; tierced per fess

(heraldry) (Partitioned) horizontally; (especially) partitioned horizontally into two halves (formally party per fess).

coupé

heraldry: partitioned horizontally: party per fess


per chevron

per chevron gules and argent; tierced per chevron; an escutcheon tierced per pale and per chevron

(heraldry) (Partitioned) along the bent line(s) of a chevron, (especially) into two areas (formally party per chevron).

(tierced, etc) en chevron

heraldry: partitioned along the bent line of a chevron


pall reversed

The Chinese running-hand form of the number six is 1, and this scarcely bears comparison with the mark in question, which looks almost exactly like an inverted pall or Y, each of whose three branches is formed of four circlets or dots, making twelve altogether.

It may be embroidered or edged with lace and a cross worked on its centre to distinguish it from the Mass corporal; or an inverted pall of the right size might conveniently be used if preferred.

1956, Edward Cyril Russell Lamburn, Ritual Notes:

When the two arms of the "Y" are on the hoist it may be called a simple pall, with the two arms on the fly a reversed pall, with the two arms on the top edge an upright pall and with the two arms on the bottom edge of the flag an inverted pall.

2008, A. P. Burgers, The South African flag book:

(heraldry) An ordinary that looks like an upside-down 'Y' (⅄).