anarcho-naturist

(politics, economics) a person who advocates anarcho-naturism


libertarian communism

(anarchism, communism) Synonym of anarcho-communism.


anarcho-collectivism

collectivist anarchism
collectivist anarchism#English

(politics, economics) collectivist anarchism


collectivist anarchism

private property
private property#English

(politics, economics) an anarchist philosophy advocating the abolition of the state and private property in favour of collectivism


anarcho-pacifism

(anarchism) an anarchist tendency supporting pacifism instead of violence in order to achieve anarchist goals


existentialist anarchism

(politics, philosophy) the combination of anarchism and existentialism, prompted by some philosophers


green anarchism

(politics, economics) An anarchist school of thought that emphasizes environmental issues.


left anarchism

(politics, economics) Anarchism as contrasted with right-wing ideologies that reference anarchism, such as anarcho-capitalism.


national-anarchism

(politics, economics) A primitivist, anticapitalist, anticommunist, antistatist social philosophy emphasizing ethnic tribalism and forms of nationalism.


philosophical anarchism

individualist anarchist
individualist anarchist#English

(politics, economics) individualist anarchist school of thought holding that obeying the state lacks moral legitimacy, while purporting no violence against the state


post-anarchism

(politics, economics) Any of a number of anarchist theories emphasizing poststructuralist and postmodernist views.


postcolonial anarchism

(politics) a tendency within the anarchist movement emphasizing anti-imperialism, indigenism and opposing ethnic supremacist views such as Eurocentrism.


queer anarchism

(politics, economics) An anarchist school of thought advocating anarchism as a means of achieving rights and liberation for queer and LGBT people (i.e. gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people).

queeranarkism

anarchist school of thought advocating anarchism as means of achieving rights and liberation for queer/LGBT people


veganarchism

(politics, economics) A philosophy combining anarchism and veganism, advocating animal rights through the abolition of the state.

veganarşizm

the combined philosophies of veganism and anarchism


existentialist anarchist

en-adj

existentialist anarchist (not comparable)

existentialist anarchism
existentialist anarchism#English

(politics, economics) of, supporting, relating to, or advocating existentialist anarchism


existentialist anarchist

en-noun

existentialist anarchist (plural existentialist anarchists)

(politics, economics) a person who advocates existentialist anarchism


green anarchist

(politics, economics) of, supporting, relating to, or advocating green anarchism


green anarchist

green anarchist (plural green anarchists)

(politics, economics) a person who advocates green anarchism


infoanarchist

From info + anarchist, coined in 2000 in an article in Time magazine about Ian Clarke.

It turns out that the brave new world of free-flowing information can be a bit disconcerting, even to infoanarchists.

2000 July, A. Cohen, “The Infoanarchist”, in Time, volume 155, page 47:

Infoanarchists have emerged as part of the broader copyright social conflict and copyright debate.

2012, Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, Infoanarchism:

This, of course, unleashed the ire of many infoanarchists and freedom-of-speech advocates, who saw the removal of the videos as a clear violation of fair use (the exception to copyright that allows people to use materials for purposes such as education, news reporting, criticism, and so on without asking for permission).

2013, Ulises Ali Mejias, Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World:

intellectual property
intellectual property

(politics, economics) A person who opposes intellectual property and copyright.


left anarchist

(politics, economics) of, supporting, relating to, or advocating left anarchism


left anarchist

(politics, economics) a person who advocates left anarchism


national-anarchist

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


national-anarchist

(politics) A person who advocates national-anarchism.


philosophical anarchist

en-adj

philosophical anarchist (not comparable)

philosophical anarchism
philosophical anarchism#English

(politics, economics) of, supporting, relating to, or advocating philosophical anarchism


philosophical anarchist

en-noun

philosophical anarchist (plural philosophical anarchists)

(politics, economics) a person who advocates philosophical anarchism.


post-anarchist

(politics, economics) of, supporting, relating to, or advocating post-anarchism


post-anarchist

(politics, economics) a person who advocates post-anarchism


queer anarchist

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


queer anarchist

queer anarchist (plural queer anarchists)

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


polling day

(politics) The day voting takes place in a local, general, or national election, apart from postal votes made beforehand.


QMC

Quartermaster Corps
w:Quartermaster Corps

(military, US) Initialism of Quartermaster Corps.


cuckservative

cuckservatives (plural)
Cuckservative (alternative)
cuck-servative (alternative)
cukservative (alternative)

Blend of cuck + conservative. A neologism created by Internet users seeking to berate conservatives.

Use of the cuckservative hashtag peaked toward the end of last month, when it was used more than 5,000 times in one day, according to data from Topsy, a social media analytics tool.

2015 August 13, Alan Rappeport, “From the Right, a New Slur for G.O.P. Candidates”, in The New York Times:

Her shtick has always involved cultivating an extreme online persona, and lately that seems to mean deliberately stoking the cuckservative-obsessed crowd, only to distance herself ever-so-slightly when the Twitter fur flies.

2015 September 18, David French, “‘Cuckservative’ Has Got to Go”, in National Review, retrieved 2022-02-10:

“Hey Reddit, I’m Corey Stewart. Republican Candidate for Governor of Virginia and former State Chair for Donald Trump for President,” he began. “The primary election is June 13th. I am opposing the establishment's handpicked candidate, former Bush guy, RNC chairman, and cuckservative, Ed Gillespie.”

2017 March 24, Laura Vozzella, “GOP Chair Slams Va. Gubernatorial Contender for Calling Rival a ‘Cuckservative’”, in The Washington Post:

Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds.

[2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 2022-02-10:

(US politics, slang, derogatory, neologism, politics) A weak-willed political conservative politician who is willing to capitulate to other political stances.


glip

en-verb

glip (third-person singular simple present glips, present participle glipping, simple past and past participle glipped)

glips (present singular third-person)
glipping (participle present)
glipped (participle past)
glipped (past)

Received a DUC for developing and using a special (glip) bombing technique against enemy bridges in French Indochina.

1961, Office of Air Force History, Air Force Combat Units of World War II, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 220

To successfully 'glip' a bridge, a deliberate passage through the concentration of small arms, machine gun and automatic weapons fire, and often blossoming, white puffs of time-fused mortar shells, was essential.

2000, James Vesely, Unlike Any Land You Know: The 490th Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India, iUniverse, page 102:

(military, transitive) To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II.


yuko

As with yukos, kokas are not accumulative, so no amount of kokas are deemed equal to or greater than a yuko.

2008, Roy Inman, The Judo Handbook, page 25:

(judo) The score for a throw that lands the opponent on his or her side.


me-tooism

en-noun

me-tooism (countable and uncountable, plural me-tooisms)

me-tooisms (plural)
metooism (alternative)
me-too-ism (alternative)
me tooism (alternative)
me too-ism (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-me-tooism.wav

From me too + -ism (suffix forming names of tendencies of action, behaviour, condition, opinion, or state belonging to groups of persons).

suffix

Next week's programme is one of peculiar interest. The following questions are announced for debate: The origin of "Me-tooism" in politics and "Too-tooism" in æsthetics, with reference to the study of modern history.

1883 August 23, Harold Van Santvoord, “Philosophy at Pompoonik”, in Life, volume II, number 34, New York, N.Y.: Published at the Life Office, […], →OCLC, page 96, column 1:

Senator [Arthur] Vandenberg answered critics who say the bipartisan foreign policy has produced mere Republican “me tooism” with the assertion that unity is vital if any policy is to get results. He declared: “If that's ‘me tooism’, then any unity is me tooism.”

1949 December 21, “Vandenberg Backs Continued Europe Aid, on Reduced Basis”, in Department of State Wireless Bulletin, number 299, [Washington, D.C.]: International Press and Publications Division, Office of International Information, Department of State, →OCLC, page 11:

For some elections past the Republican party has appeared to be acting on the fatuous theory that it could lure the labor leaders away from their Democratic alliance. Of all the "metooisms" that the Republicans have committed this one was the most transparent and the least effective.

1955, George S. Benson, NERBA, volume 34, part 5, Boston, Mass.: New England Road Builders Association, →OCLC, page 12-2, column 2:

I believe [Dean] Rusk has abdicated. Rusk merely follows [Robert] McNamara. It is McNamara who is calling the shots in South Vietnam. [...] The South Vietnamese program is McNamara's program. I am not interested in Rusk's "me-too-isms" in regard to it.

1964 April 9, Wayne Morse, “McNamara’s War in Vietnam”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 88th Congress, Second Session (United States Senate), volume 110, part 6, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7431, column 1:

Having [Richard] Nixon woo the hard-shell Republicans and ardent anti-Communists and pleasing [Robert Alphonso] Taft and [Joseph] McCarthy, however useful for expunging "me-tooism" from the campaign, constantly threatened to jeopardize the greatest potential source of [Dwight David] Eisenhower's political strength: that fickle, uncommitted, apolitical, independent vote.

1972, Herbert S. Parmet, “Holding the Center”, in Eisenhower & the American Crusades (American Presidents Series), New Brunswick, N.J., London: Transaction Publishers, published 1999, →ISBN, page 134:

For some time there has ceased to be any significant difference between the Democrats and the Republicans; they are best thought of as two branches of the same party. [...] The depoliticization of most of the American intelligensia merely reflects the conformism and convergence—the "me-tooism"—of political life in general.

2001, Susan Sontag, “A Few Weeks After”, in Paolo Dilonardo, Anne Jump, editors, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2007, →ISBN, page 116:

Republican domestic stands of the time were called "me-tooism," saying about each of the popular domestic innovations of FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] and the Democrats, "we support that too."

2004, James Allen Stimson, “What the Public Wants from Government”, in Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(politics) The act of following or taking on a policy of another (especially competing) person or political party.


hamade

From French, derived from the town of La Hamaide (in Belgium).

I said I thought that a hamade consists of three trunked bars, even though the Bigot Roll of 1254 blazons d'Abrichecourt's arms as having 'three hamades.' The writers in the Antiquaries' Journal, however, in addition to the Bigot Roll,[…]

1952, The Coat of Arms: An Heraldic Quarterly Magazine:

It consists of a bar couped at each end, but was originally always borne in threes. There is a dispute as to whether a hamade is properly three couped bars and therefore cannot be borne singly. The adjective humetty (q.v.) is[…]

1985, John Philip Brooke-Little, An Heraldic Alphabet, Robson Books Limited:

(heraldry) A bar that does not touch the edges of the shield, especially if borne as part of a set of three (which may be of equal length, or have the top bar longer than the bottom one; and may have straight edges, or slanted edges with the base shorter than the top).


nipcheese

nipcheeses (plural)
nip-cheese (alternative)

(military jargon, derogatory) Synonym of purser.


vambraced

Sir George Carlyon Hughes Armstrong, first Baronet, [...] He bears for Arms : Gules, three dexter arms vambraced argent, hands closed proper ; on a canton of the second three pallets azure; […] Charles Randal Armstrong-MacDonell, Esquire, [...] 2 and 3 gules, three dexter arms vambraced and embowed proper, the hands clenched also proper, […]

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 25:

(especially heraldry) Wearing a vambrace.


PCG

Philippine Coast Guard
w:Philippine Coast Guard

(Philippines, law enforcement, nautical) Initialism of Philippine Coast Guard.


SOG

en-noun

SOG (countable and uncountable, plural SOGs)

special operations group
special operations group#English

(military, countable) Acronym of special operations group.


all politics is local

Variously attributed to Associated Press Washington bureau chief Byron Price, said to have first used this term in 1932, and to Chicago writer Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936). Derivative of British English professor, Dr. Samuel Johnson's 18th Century aphorism, "All virtue is local".

"The campaign never ends," said the 44-year-old Congressman. . . . "I win by reaching out to people one by one, through relentless retail politics." In other words, Mr. Bacchus is betting his congressional career on the adage that all politics is local.

1993 December 7, Clifford Krauss, “On Congress's Home Front, Faith That All Politics Is Indeed Local”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-17:

[A]ll politics is local and Kerry North is more local than most. In the electorate, the view is that Mr Ferris got in because . . . he has been an assiduous local councillor and constituency worker, painstakingly building up a formidable Sinn Fein machine that has delivered on local issues.

2002 May 20, David McKittrick (Ireland Correspondent), "Kerry kicks out former party leader and replaces him with former gun-runner," Independent (UK) (retrieved 17 Aug 2015)

But in the end, all politics is local, and almost every race is decided by local issues.

2002 June 21, Mitch Frank, “The White House Goes Local”, in Time, retrieved 2015-08-17:

All politics is local. I believe in a grassroots approach that is founded on strong representation for constituents.

2007 Sept. 14, "Politics: John O'Toole (incumbent)," Toronto Star (Canada) (retrieved 17 Aug 2015)

(chiefly US, politics) Ultimately, constituents and voters are concerned most about issues that affect their personal lives and home communities, and they vote accordingly.

Barry Popik
Byron Price
Finley Peter Dunne


veche

From Old East Slavic вѣче (věče, “council”)
or modern Russian ве́че (véče)

(historical, politics) a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries.


Portilloism

Those few ministers with the good sense to doubt the certitudes of Portilloism, and still maintain some contact with reality, may even have been alarmed by its effectiveness.

I don't much care whether that creed is called socialism, bolshevism, Portilloism or Harvey's Law, I know what I stand for and am happy to defend it.

2001, Richard G, “Smith promises early action to scrap Section 28”, in uk.gay-lesbian-bi (Usenet):

(UK politics) The political stance of Michael Portillo (born 1953), former Member of Parliament, Deputy Conservative Party leader and Cabinet Minister.


Cinderella State

After the fairy-tale character of Cinderella, who is abused and neglected by her stepfamily.

(Australian politics) A state (of Australia) that is financially or politically disadvantaged or neglected.


hopenosis

Blend of hope + hypnosis, in reference to the Barack Obama "Hope" poster.

But what should the Obama Cult do now? The man has turned off the switch on the "Hopenosis" and has revealed the "Change Brigade" for the useful idiots they were.

2009 January 22, Alex Knepper, “Obama's cabinet appointments contradict with message”, in The Mirror (Fairfield University), volume 34, number 15, page 3:

they've all by ^([sic]) hopenotized by the hopenosis of the obamanation.

2009 February 27, AllEmailDeletedImmediately [username], “Re: What's Up With Food Prices?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, rare, derogatory) Credulous political enthusiasm for Barack Obama.


battle taxi

armored personnel carrier
armored personnel carrier

(military, slang) armored personnel carrier


Regulation Charlie

Regulation Charlie (plural Regulation Charlies)

(military, slang) A person who strictly enforces all rules, without exception.


invecked

The crooked Lines are these following : The first two Lines, Plate II. named ingraled and invecked, when represented together, are somewhat known, the one from the other, being opposite to one another, both being made (as it were) of Semicircles; the ingraled with Points upward, and the invecked Line with Points downward. But this is not yet a sufficient Distinction: For, suppose the Space betwixt them, which they form, be a Fess, then it's only ingraled, and not invecked; for a Fess ingraled, must have the Points on both Sides turned twoards the Field, and the convex or gibbose Parts towards the Fess it self; and so of a Bend, Chiveron, and other proper Figures in Herauldry: And if these be invecked, then the convex Parts of the Line are towards the Field; [...] within a Bordure invecked. These two Lines, ingraled and invecked, are more hard to be distinguished, when the field is divided into two equal Parts of different Tinctures, [...] Here we know not whether the Line be ingraled or invecked, except we observe this Rule, That the Form of the Line must be applied to the Colour first named. The French, for ingraled, say engrele; and for invecked, canele:

1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 24:

Contrary invecked. Invecked on both sides as a chevron, &c. when the upper and under parts are both invecked.

1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 10:

Greek cross in panel, centre "invecked." Inscription illegible

1899, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Journal, page 117:


gunshield

Junge and his two petty officers had been blown to pieces: the high-explosive shell had come right through the iron gunshield supposed to protect them.

2005, Giles Foden, Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika, Penguin UK:

(military) A shield fitted to the front of a gun to protect its operator.


NPSC

(US, military) Initialism of Navy Personnel Separation Center.


anti-submarine

(military) Intended to attack submarines.


Lügenpresse

From German Lügenpresse (“lying press”).

When a video of two Donald Trump supporters shouting “Lügenpresse” (lying press) started to circulate Sunday, viewers from Germany soon noted its explosive nature. The defamatory word was most frequently used in Nazi Germany.

[2016 October 24, Rick Noack, “The ugly history of ‘Lügenpresse,’ a Nazi slur shouted at a Trump rally”, in Washington Post, →ISSN:

(US politics, derogatory) lamestream media


hot shot

After being struck by three hot shots from the coastal fort, the attacking ship of the line burned uncontrollably until the flames reached her powder magazine and she blew up.

(historical, military, nautical) Round shot that has been heated to a glow before firing in order to set wooden enemy ships afire.


porkmeister

Representative Young is the porkmeister who championed the notorious Bridge to Nowhere.

2008 April 21, “The Road to Somewhere Shady”, in New York Times:

(US politics, informal) A politician involved in "pork barrel" politics, using central funds for regional projects designed to appeal to voters.


bombs away

Launch the torpedo on three! 1... 2... 3! Bombs away!

(usually military) Said after a projectile is unleashed.


body press

(wrestling) A splash; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.


downtrace

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

Shouldn't each CAPSTONE general officer command (GOCOM) be made a miniArmy Reserve command (ARCOM), with direct responsibility for training its USAR and active component downtrace (contingency chain of command)?

The 228th Signal Brigade (HHC), South Carolina National Guard, part of the 335th's command downtrace, was also not mobilized or deployed, despite its mission to provide area signal support to Third Army/ARCENT.

1992, JP Bird, Crossed Signals on the Battlefield:

It is a six-phase, joint command post exercise for theater agencies, theater army units, a theater army area command and corps support command and their downtraces, corps troops, and other services equivalents.

With the better understaing of the Iraqi Brigade Commander's approach to battle-planning, the Irish MiTT worked at getting a general concept of the Commander's plan early in the planning process to share with the downtrace units so the Battalions would have greater opportunity to plan, rehearse, and resource their battle plans.

2010, Voris Weldon McBurnette, The 108th Training Command, →ISBN:

(military) The set of subordinate units lower in the chain of command from a specified unit.


unsweepable

We have begun each of our last two wars with the enemy laying unsweepable mines. I shall not dwell on the unsweepable mine of 1914.

1997, Eric Grove, The Defeat of the enemy attack upon shipping, 1939-1945, page xxxiv:

(military) Of a mine: incapable of being located by minesweeping.


kisbet

From Turkish kispet, from Arabic كِسْوَة (kiswa).

(fashion, wrestling) A pair of loose-fitting leather trousers worn by wrestlers in Turkish oil wrestling competitions.


steel pot helmet

steel pot helmet (plural steel pot helmets)

From the helmet's steel construction and pot-like appearance.

(military, slang) A style of soldier's helmet resembling the helmet used by U.S. soldiery from World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.


washbasin helmet

washbasin helmet (plural washbasin helmets)

From the helmet's appearance, similar to a washbasin of the early 20th century.

(military, slang) A style of soldier's helmet that is almost identical to or resembles the helmet used by the British Empire, Commonwealth and U.S. soldiery during World War I.


coal scuttle helmet

coal scuttle helmet (plural coal scuttle helmets)

From the helmet's appearance similar to a coal scuttle (coal bucket) of the early 20th century.

(military, slang) A style of soldier's helmet that is almost identical to resembles the helmet used by current Chilean soldiery, German soldiery at the end of World War I and during World War II, and Chinese soldiery during the Second Sino-Japanese War.


APFSDS

(military) Initialism of armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot round.


APDS

(military) Initialism of armor-piercing discarding-sabot round.


pogey bait

Related to pogue (“soldier assigned administrative rather than combat duties”).

(US, military, slang) Snacks, candy, and similar food items that are not generally available to soldiers in the field.


gun furniture

(firearms, obsolete) The trigger, trigger plate, its guard, and (when present) the heel plate to the stock.


Tezza

(UK politics, slang) The British politician Theresa May (born 1956), Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019.


OPSEC

(US, military) Abbreviation of operations security.


machtpolitik

Tensions have built up over the long years of Merkelian Machtpolitik and are emerging into the open, particularly in light of a mediocre vote-share at the election, yet another workaday coalition deal, the concession of the powerful finance ministry to the SPD, the allocation of the CDU’s few big cabinet jobs to inoffensively loyal Merkelites and the lack of hints at a succession plan at the top.

2008 February 12, J.C., “German politics is in revolt against the “Merkel method””, in The Economist:


Terry search

(US, law enforcement) A search carried out by the police during a Terry stop.


Terry stop

From the legal case Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), in which the Supreme Court held that police may briefly detain a person who they reasonably suspect is involved in criminal activity.

(US, law enforcement) The brief detention of a person by the police on reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal activity but short of probable cause to arrest.


IRGC

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
w:Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

(military) Initialism of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces.


ELINT

ELINT (countable and uncountable, plural ELINTs)

(a) Intelligence.—This includes SIGINT, ELINT and their Electronic countermeasures (ECM, ECCM, ECCCM and so on).

2002, Indian Journal of Strategic Studies, volume 23, page 163:

electronic intelligence
electronic intelligence#English

(espionage) Abbreviation of electronic intelligence.


CCIP

(military) Initialism of Common Configuration Implementation Program.


Third-Worldism

(politics) The socialist practice of supporting Third-World countries, especially in their struggle for liberation from colonial powers


Third-Worldist

(politics) One who engages in Third-Worldism.


(politics) Initialism of Group of Five, the five largest emerging economies.


Owenism

When Owenism and Chartism had burned themselves out, England had become poorer by that substance out of which the Anglo-Saxon ideal of a free society could have been built up for centuries to come.

1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 167:

Owen, who became the manager of the enterprise 200 years ago, adopted the principles of the social market, so pivotal to the social democracy of today. ‘Owenism’ provided the country's first nursery, schooling for workers' children long before it was compulsory, welfare benefits and, most significantly, higher education in the form of an Institute for the Formation of Character.

1990 August 8, Peter Hetherington, “The lament of the Clyde”, in The Guardian:

(politics) The utopian socialist philosophy of Robert Owen.


Pabloism

(politics) A Greek form of Trotskyism based on the thinking of Michel Pablo


state police

state police (usually uncountable, plural state polices)

(US, Australia, law enforcement) The police force belonging to the state (subnational) government, as contrasted with federal, county, or municipal law enforcement.

Staatspolizei

police force belonging to the state government


in anger

"fire in anger"

The Napier of Magdala Battery never fired a shot in anger: it never engaged in combat.

These craft [flying boats] were never perfected, never flown in anger and destroyed at war's end.

2009 December 22, Gaetano V. Cavallaro, Futility Ending in Disaster: Diplomatic, Military, Aviation and Social Events in the First World War on the Austro-Italian Front, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 519:

Over the years, B52s have been deployed in anger by the US Air Force in two conflicts, Vietnam and the Gulf. Despite the outcome of the former, the B52 acquitted itself with success both as a tactical bomber and in the strategic role […]

2010 June 19, Ian Watson, The Royal Air Force at Home: The History of RAF Air Displays from 1920, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:

Sunday morning’s US raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, involved more than 125 military aircraft and saw the first use in anger of the GBU-57 bunker buster, said to penetrate 60m underground before exploding.

2025 June 24, Paul Nuki, Afshin Madadi, “Iran ‘hiding thousands of centrifuges’ to build nuclear bomb”, in The Telegraph:

(especially military) With the intent of causing damage or harm to an opponent; in combat, rather than in peacetime training.


d'or

1617, William Camden, Worshipful Society of Apothecaries - description of coat of arms
On a shield azure Apollo, the inventor of phisique, proper, with his head radiant, holdinge in his left hand a bowe, and his right hande an arrow d'or […]

‘I forget your coat of arms.’
‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’

1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:

(heraldry, postpositive) Of gold; golden.


Lambertism

(politics) The Trotskyite politics of Pierre Lambert.


RIS

RISs (plural)
R.I.S. (alternative)
R. I. S. (alternative)

rail interface system
w:rail interface system

rail integration system
w:rail integration system

(firearms) Initialism of rail interface system or rail integration system.


pommee

pomey (alternative)
pommé (alternative)
pommy (alternative)

From French pommé (“grown round, or like an apple”), past participle of pommer (“to pome”).

der

(heraldry, of a cross) Having the ends terminating in rounded protuberances or single balls; having round shapes on the extremities.


isomer bomb

isomer bombs (plural)
isomeric bomb (alternative)

From isomer + bomb from being a bomb fuelled by nuclear isomer changes.

A more useable size might be 1 g with an accelerated decay of 200 kg of TNT. The isomer bomb obtained funding, but was canceled as nonsensical.

2013, David Hafemeister, Physics of Societal Issues: Calculations on National Security, Environment, and Energy, Springer, →ISBN, page 23:

But in recent years, a group of fringe scientists aided by defense industry insiders has convinced the Pentagon that America's post-9/11 survival depends on developing an isomer bomb. While proponents compare it to the Manhattan Project, opponents point out that independent researchers have not been able to duplicate the results attained by isomer enthusiasts, and that many assumptions behind the bomb contradict the laws of physics. Though Congress canceled isomer bomb development in 2004, the Department of Energy found $5 million to continue the research.

2011, Karolina Dean...Where the HELL is my monkey?, “The Pentagon's fascination with fringe science”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Danger Room has closely followed developments related to miniature nuclear weapon, such as the “isomer bomb,” a notional weapon based on some rather controversial physics of accelerating the decay of nuclear isomers. Like Red Mercury, nuclear isomers never grows old. In January, the first ever isomer bomb was detonated in front of millions of viewers. Of course the bomb in question was fictional, a handy plot device in the new Knight Rider series. It was set to go off if the car dropped to below 100 mph; how original is that as a plot device?

2009, David Hambling, “Red Mercury Mania Returns as Saudis Buy Up “Mini-Nuke” Material”, in Wired:

The AWE's emphasis is on basic research and the potential for energy storage. But Thomson does not believe that an isomer bomb can be ruled out, saying that the controversy over Collins' claims has not been fully resolved. He adds: "A secondary role of AWE is to provide independent advice to the UK government on potential threats to the security of the UK, so an understanding of the fundamentals of isomer physics is essential."

2008, David Hambling, “Discredited pseudoscience or a newly useful technology?”, in The Guardian:

In America, the most controversial research has involved trying to "trigger" — get energy out of — a Hafnium isomer. In Russia, there has been plenty of controversy over Hafnium, as well. A 2005 paper on induced decay of the nuclear isomer 178m2Hf and the ‘isomeric bomb’ written by E. V. Tkalya, is deeply skeptical of the physics involved.

2008, David Hambling, “Russia’s Isomer Bomb, Funded by Your Taxes”, in Wired:

The hafnium isomer bomb concept is the product of a physicist's imagination. The hafnium, or isomer, bomb, is proposed by an expert who needs research funding to prove that the reaction takes place.

2008, Richard M. Swiderski, Quicksilver: A History of the Use, Lore and Effects of Mercury, McFarland, →ISBN, page 229:

For those who want all the nitty gritty details on the very weird life and death of DARPA’s isomer bomb, you can read my book, or for a shorter overview, you can read David Hambling’s New Scientist article along with my Washington Post Magazine article.

2008, Sharon Weinberger, “Is the Pentagon Funding Isomer Bombs Again?”, in Wired:

Washington bureaucracy works in strange ways. I was immediately asked what stake the arms control groups at State had in a fight over whether or not DARPA was to be allowed to waste $40 million on what my instincts said was very bad science. But we did have a reason to get involved: the proponents of isomer weapons suggested that–although the energy release derived from excited states of nuclei–because the mechanism did not involve either fission or fusion, an isomer bomb would not be a nuclear weapon. That would mean it could be tested even under the terms of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and could even be tested in the atmosphere, despite the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty

2007, Peter D. Zimmerman, “The Strange Tale of the Hafnium Bomb: A Personal Narrative”, in American Physical Society News:

Take the so-called hafnium bomb, also known as the isomer bomb. According to its proponents, this futuristic weapon would harness the immense energy in subatomic particles known as isomers to deliver kiloton yields in a tiny package.

2006, Daniel G. Dupont, “Far-Out Physics”, in Scientific American, →DOI:

• Pure isomer bomb: 0.1 to 5 MeV gamma-rays;

2005, Andre Gsponer, “Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: Military effectiveness and collateral effects”, in arXiv:

The problem of developing the isomeric bomb on the basis of these isomeric nuclei is considered. The experimental data analysis shows that development of the hafnium bomb at present is nonreal, because the existing plans of its creation are based on the noncorrectness of obtained experimental data

2005, E.V. Tkalya, “Induced decay of the 178m2Hf and isomeric bomb”, in Physics Uspekhi:

I think a hydrogen bomb can be made that is started by an isomer bomb not an atomic bomb.

2004, Kurt stocklmeir, “Re: laser cooling”, in sci.math (Usenet):

(military, weaponry) a type of theoretical radiological nuclear weapon that relies on an induced rapid change in the state of nuclear isomers to generate an intense gamma ray flash.


coffee money

A euphemism that refers to the amount of money typically enough to buy a cup of coffee. The bribe or gratuity fee sense is a calque of Malay duit kopi.

Singapore is free of corruption as any place on earth. (Even small-scale bribery attempts lead to immediate arrest.) Ironically, this has surfaced as a disadvantage for Singaporeans conducting business in other countries - where contacts aren’t always considered binding, bureaucratic inefficiency can make a mockery of time tables, infrastructures can be unreliable, “quality” may be seen as a relative term and “tea money” (known as “coffee money” during Singapore’s British colonial days) is a prerequisite to getting anything done.

1998, Alexandra Kett, Passport Singapore: Your Pocket Guide to Singaporean Business, Customs & Etiquette, page 31:

Obviously he was trying to wear out your patience in the hope that you will hand over some undercounter coffee money to him instead of paying for the official tax/fine which does not benefit him at all.

2008 March 31, Alan Wong, “The Stupid Things I Did At The Malaysian Custom”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

If you have ever paid or are thinking of paying ‘Coffee Money’ when stopped for traffic or other offences, don’t ever do this again.

2010 September 16, Roger Poh, “Driving in Malaysia: Why you mustn’t bribe Malaysian traffic cops”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, idiomatic, politics) A small amount of money given as a bribe or gratuity.


jdfr

(military, US) Abbreviation of joined from.


HqBn

(military, US) Abbreviation of headquarters battalion.


MARFOR

(military, US) Acronym of Marine forces.


jds/RS

(military, US) Abbreviation of joined by staff returns.


S/RS

(military, US) Abbreviation of staff returns.


counterspace

In order to understand why a counterspace capability will be critical in 2025, it is only necessary to look at recent developments which point to the explosive growth in usage of space assets worldwide. As both commercial needs and military missions are increasingly met via space systems, the ability to protect the sovereignty of US and friendly satellites will grow in importance.

1996 August, Lt. Col. Robert H. Zielinski with Lt. Col. Robert M. Worley II, Maj. Douglas S. Black, Maj. Scott A. Henderson, and Maj. David C. Johnson, “Star Tek — Exploiting the Final Frontier: Counterspace Operations in 2025 [volume 3, chapter 9, page 8]”, in Air Force 2025, volume 3, Air University, United States Air Force, archived from the original on 2010-04-15, page 8:

AFDD 2-2.1 highlights the linkage between the concepts of space situational awareness (SSA) and counterspace operations, explaining that SSA "is the result of sufficient knowledge about space-related conditions, constraints, capabilities, and activities ... in, from, toward, or through space" (2). SSA accomplished by space surveillance, reconnaissance, the monitoring of the space environment, and collection/processing of space-systems intelligence provides the planner, commander, and executor the ability to develop counterspace courses of action.

2004 December 1, Lt. Col. Paula B. Flavell, “AFDD 2-2.1, Counterspace Operations”, in Air & Space Power Journal, Air University, United States Air Force, archived from the original on 2011-06-09:

Haney acknowledged that the July 2014 test (which China described as an "anti-missile technology experiment") did not actually hit a satellite, perhaps by design. "But just seeing the nature of these types of activities show how committed they are to a counter-space campaign," he explained.

2015 March 26, Shannon Tiezzi, “US admiral: China counter-space threat is 'real'”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 2015-10-17:

(military) Pertaining to antispace access or assets, and countering space access or assets.


equalization payment

en-noun

equalization payment (plural equalization payments)

Ontario may soon be classed as a "have-not" province and receive equalization payments for the first time in its history.

2008 February 26, “Opinion: Ontario to join "have-nots"?”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

Six “have-not” provinces are splitting $15.4 billion in equalization payments in 2012-13.

2012 October 10, Jason Fekete, “‘Controversial’ overhaul of transfer payments under study by federal government”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

People whose provinces receive equalization payments are largely in denial about living in have-not regions, a poll suggests.

2015 April 22, Brian Daly, “Most have-not provinces in denial about getting equalization: Poll”, in Toronto Sun, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-21:

(Canada, government) Extra money transferred from the federal government to a province, drawn from general tax revenue and intended to redistribute some wealth from relatively prosperous provinces to relatively poor provinces.

transfer payment

(Canada) money transferred from the federal government to a province


sheroic

en-adj

sheroic (comparative more sheroic, superlative most sheroic)

more sheroic (comparative)
most sheroic (superlative)

The tragedy of Gatha's sheroic journey is that the actualization of her own importance is never considered "the prize" of her odyssey; hence, she never recognizes the personal and historic success of her journey.

1999, Janice Lee Liddell, “Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall”, in Janice Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp, editors, Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 36:

This sheroic choice eventually led her to testify compassionately on behalf of faceless and voiceless young girls still living under horrific conditions in the community she had escaped from.

2015, Nancy D. O'Reilly, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 84:

However, in the same vein, she also bemoans that following each of these campaigns, amnesia sets in wherein society tends to conveniently forget about the sheroic lengths to which its women have uniformly performed and without whom the military's successes could not have been achieved.

2015, G. L. A. Harris, Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 37:

(feminism) Heroic in a female or feminist context.


underkill

(military) The situation where a weapon does too little destruction, or less than it potentially could.


deoligarchization

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

deoligarchisation (alternative)
de-oligarchisation (alternative)
de-oligarchization (alternative)

/diːˌɒlɪɡɑːkaɪˈzeɪʃn̩/

/diˌɑləɡɑɹˌkaɪˈzeɪʃən/

From de- (prefix denoting reversal or undoing) + oligarchization.

affix

Of course, some MO's [social movement organizations] begin with a relatively oligarchical structure and de-oligarchization may occur.

1966, Mayer N[athan] Zald, Roberta Ash, “Social Movement Organizations: Growth, Decay and Change”, in Barry McLaughlin, editor, Studies in Social Movements: A Social Psychological Perspective, New York, N.Y.: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, published 1969, →ISBN, page 462:

This deoligarchization was one of the fundamental conditions precedent for agricultural modernization and for growing mobility and commercialization of land, labour and capital.

1982, Economics: A Biannual Collection of Recent German Contributions to the Field of Economic Science, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg: Institute for Scientific Co-operation, →OCLC, page 14:

The deoligarchization and opening up of Israeli society in the two decades following the Six Day War were facilitated by a sharp rise in the standard of living and education, the ascent of a new class of professionals, technocrats, managers and businessmen, and the strengthening of ties with and orientation toward the West.

1989, Sammy Smooha, “Introduction”, in Arabs and Jews in Israel: Conflicting and Shared Attitudes in a Divided Society, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 15:

Vladimir Gusinsky's media empire was another logical place to start "deoligarchization."

2001, Alexander Chubarov, “Prospects for the New Century”, in Russia’s Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras, New York, N.Y.; London: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, part 3 (From Reform Socialism to Deformed Capitalism), page 265:

On the other hand, the impact of migration of national big business into the leading administrative positions in the regions appears to be significantly less straightforward. This process took place as a consequence of the ‘deoligarchisation’ campaign conducted by [Vladimir] Putin at the centre and to some extent had a positive effect on the level of transparency of centre-regional dialogue.

2010, Elena A[lexandrovna] Chebankova, “Conclusion”, in Russia’s Federal Relations: Putin’s Reforms and Management of the Regions (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies; 63), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 191:

Ukraine's reformers have wanted to wean the country off the oligarchs ever since the Maidan revolution, with only limited success. […] The process of "deoligarchisation", says Mr [Volodymyr] Fesenko, will be "complex and painful". But at least it has begun.

2015 March 28 – April 3, “Ukraine's future: President v oligarch”, in The Economist, volume 414, number 8931, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-07-31, page 56, column 2:

These questions shift the perspective from destruction ("fight" against corruption, de-oligarchisation, punishment and control) to construction (institutional design, generation and communication of interests, raising bottom-up social movements and political parties, creating open-access order). They can open new discussions, generate new ideas and disrupt the hopeless discourse of political corruption in Ukraine.

2018, Oksana Huss, “Corruption, Crisis, and Change: Use and Misuse of an Empty Signifier”, in Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė, Didiem Buhari-Gulmez, editors, Crisis & Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective, Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Crisis and Social Change: Ukraine in Comparative Perspective), page 122:

De-oligarchisation depends on the de-politicisation of specific state institutions, the effective fighting against corruption, and the de-monopolisation of the media and key economic sectors. This will determine the success of the modernisation and building-up of democratic institutions in these countries.

2018, Wojciech Konończuk, Denis Cenușă, Kornely Kakachia, “Oligarchs as Key Obstacles to Reform”, in Michael Emerson, Denis Cenușă, Tamara Kovziridze, Veronika Movchan, editors, The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe, London: Rowman & Littlefield International [for the Centre for European Policy Studies], →ISBN, page 84:

So although in some important ways the process of de-oligarchization had begun before [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy came to power, there was no blueprint for what to do next. Without a concrete program in place and little visible progress being made, de-oligarchization soon became an empty populist solgan. it became clear during the administration of [Petro] Poroshenko, himself one of the richest men in Ukraine, that it was quite difficult to develop a transparent program of de-oligarchization.

2022 September, Iuliia Mendel, “Oligarchs and Fake News”, in The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World, New York, N.Y.: One Signal Publishers/Atria Books, →ISBN, page 157:

The implementation of Zelensky [Volodymyr Zelenskyy]'s "deoligarchization" law has been put on hold while the conflict rages, but in the course of 2022 several oligarchs divested their media holdings and vacated political offices to avoid being targeted by the bill.

2023, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, “Ukraine’s Criminal Ecosystem and the War: Ukrainian Organized Crime in 2022”, in Bálint Madlovics, Bálint Magyar, editors, Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion, volumes I (The Russia–Ukraine War), Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, →ISBN, page 267:

(politics) The act or process of reversing oligarchization, that is, the act or process of democratization by lessening the political power of oligarchs or removing them from influential positions.


crash dive

crash dives (plural)
crash-dive (alternative)

As the crash dive began at 1:50 p.m., the overboard ventilation valve had not been closed, which resulted in tons of water flooding the submarine.

2000 March 19, Charles M. Cooke, “Letters: Loose Lips, Sinking Ships”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-10-25:

(idiomatic, military) An emergency maneuver by a submarine in which it suddenly descends, especially to considerable depth, usually in order to escape an attack or avoid a collision.


debouchment

en-noun

debouchment (countable and uncountable, plural debouchments)

(military) The act, or the result of debouching


Susie Rottencrotch

Suzy Rottencrotch (alternative)
Suzie Rottencrotch (alternative)

(US, military, slang, vulgar) Any woman or girlfriend.


Pinkville

(US, military, slang, historical) A Vietcong stronghold said to be located in the region of Sơn Mỹ village in Quảng Ngãi Province during the Vietnam War.


(military, US) Initialism of torpedoman's mate second class.


kiddie table

kiddie tables (plural)
kiddies' table (alternative)
kids' table (alternative)
kid table (alternative)
kiddy table (alternative)

EW: You’re nominated for the Best Album for Children. Does that mean you have to sit at a kiddie table?
JR: We are relegated to a pre-televised ceremony.

2011 January 10, Jessica Shaw, “Kid-music star Justin Roberts talks about his Grammy nomination”, in Entertainment, retrieved 2015-10-30:

After failing in 2003 to drag Canada into a disastrous war in Iraq, Stephen Harper has achieved it in 2014. And he will sleep better knowing that, when he next dines with the American president and fellow NATO leaders, he won’t be relegated to the kiddie table.

2014 October 11, Tony Burman, “Five lessons from the war against Islamic State”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 2015-10-30:

Organized by Fox News, the main stage, prime-time debate will involve only the candidates polling in the top 10. According to the most recent numbers, Trump, Bush and Walker are leading the way, with everyone else competing closely for the remaining slots — and to avoid the afternoon kiddie table debate.

2015 July 30, Sean Illing, “Fox News and the “batsh*t bump””, in Salon, retrieved 2015-10-30:

As if men have not already been the dominating voice in “serious” music, leaving women to the kiddie table of pop.

2015 October 6, Ola Skudlarska, “How You Get The Girl”, in The Strand, Canada: Victoria University, retrieved 2015-10-30:

(idiomatic, sarcastic, often politics) The gathering place, forum, or venue assigned to less prominent or less capable participants in an event.


neocolonialization

(sociopolitics) Exacting control or domination through economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance, especially by a developed and powerful country against a developing former colony.


decomp

Shortening of decomposition or decomposed.

There's no decomp, so the body can't have been there long.

"It's a decomp. There's gonna be maggots, and that means I'm gonna have nightmares."

2007, John Leake, Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer:

"It helped ventilate the place, especially when he had a decomp case. The coroner's offices were pitifully outdated."

(law enforcement, slang) A decomposed body.


decomp

en-verb

decomp (third-person singular simple present decomps, present participle decomping, simple past and past participle decomped)

decomps (present singular third-person)
decomping (participle present)
decomped (participle past)
decomped (past)

(intransitive, law enforcement, slang, uncommon) To decompose.


antirunway

Some of the specialized weapons may be antirunway munitions or fuel-air explosives. The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.


blast pen

(aviation, military) A specially constructed E-shaped double bay to protect aircraft against bomb blasts and splinters during enemy attacks.


cooling-off day

en-noun

cooling-off day (plural cooling-off days)

cooling-off days (plural)
Cooling-off Day (alternative)

Prime Minister Lee said the additional ‘cooling-off’ day would give voters time to reflect rationally on issues, after the emotional high of election campaigning.

2009 December 1, Today, “All will be quiet on the eve…”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Allegations against opposition candidates, or attacks on opposition policy proposals, can be repeated on news programmes on cooling-off day, to drum up sentiment against the opposition and to discredit the opposition.

2010 April 27, The Online Citizen, “Cooling-off day open to abuse in ruling party’s favour: Sylvia Lim”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2016-03-05:

Candidates and supporters are reminded to refrain from visiting their constituents or attending public events within their constituencies on Cooling-off Day and Polling day.

2011 May 5, Elections Department of Singapore, “Cooling-Off Day and Polling Day”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(Singapore, politics) The day before polling day in Singapore general elections, during which campaigning and election advertising is not allowed in order to give voters time to reflect rationally on how they will vote.


ERG

John Major struggled endlessly with Eurosceptics he termed “bastards”, while May’s nemesis was the European Research Group, or ERG, the longstanding alliance of Brexit ultras.

2022 January 8, Peter Walker, “ERG out, CRG in: the Tory factions Boris Johnson is struggling to appease”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

European Research Group
w:European Research Group

(UK politics) Initialism of European Research Group (“Eurosceptic/pro-Brexit publicly funded political activist group subdivision of the UK Conservatives”).


ridgehand

a ridgehand strike

(martial arts, chiefly attributive) A striking surface formed by tucking the thumb of the hand into the palm.


powerslam

(wrestling) A bodyslam move in which the wrestler falls face-down on top of the opponent.


powerslam

en-verb

powerslam (third-person singular simple present powerslams, present participle powerslamming, simple past and past participle powerslammed)

powerslams (present singular third-person)
powerslamming (participle present)
powerslammed (participle past)
powerslammed (past)

(wrestling, transitive) To perform such a move upon.


atomweight

en-noun

atomweight (countable and uncountable, plural atomweights)

(uncountable, martial arts, combat sports) The weight class below strawweight of less than 105 lbs.


exfil

exfil (countable and uncountable, plural exfils)

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

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

(chiefly military) Clipping of exfiltration (“the act of going out of a place”).


NRS

(military, US) Initialism of naval receiving station.


USNH

(military, US) Initialism of United States naval hospital.


USNTS

(military, US) Initialism of United States naval training school.


operational exhaustion

(military, psychiatry) The acute psychological trauma experienced in combat environments which can lead to combat fatigue.


limp-wrist

en-verb

limp-wrist (third-person singular simple present limp-wrists, present participle limp-wristing, simple past and past participle limp-wristed)

limp-wrists (present singular third-person)
limp-wristing (participle present)
limp-wristed (participle past)
limp-wristed (past)
limpwrist (alternative)

(firearms) To hold a handgun with an insufficiently-firm-and-stiff grip while firing, allowing recoil to move the frame of the gun too far rearward and causing the recoil spring to absorb too little energy from the slide for the action to cycle properly.


person of interest

en-noun

person of interest (plural persons of interest or people of interest)

persons of interest (plural)
people of interest (plural)

Tice denies involvement in any conspiracy. . . . Still, Morgan says Tice and "three or four other people" remain "persons of interest" in the investigation.

2009 August 22, Tim Padgett, “The Pensacola Adoptive Couple's Murder: A Hit?”, in Time, retrieved 2015-11-19:

Abdellatif has been interviewed five times by Australian security services since the dropping of the charges and remains a "person of interest" to the federal police.

2013 September 26, “Sayed Abdellatif inquiry will report to Tony Abbott, who called him a 'jihadist'”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2015-11-19:

The 19-year-old man from a Phoenix suburb who was detained on Friday at a convenience store near Interstate 10 is a person of interest, but Bart Graves, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, declined to say what had led the police to question the man.

2015 September 12, “Police Rule Out Detained Man, 19, as Prime Suspect in Phoenix Freeway Shootings”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-11-19:

(law enforcement, chiefly Canada, US) Someone who police have reason to believe may have a connection to a crime, or to possess important information relating to that crime, but who has not been accused or charged by authorities nor been officially deemed to be a suspect.

persoa de interese

someone believed to have a connection to a crime or to possess important information relating to that crime

bűncselekménnyel összefüggésbe hozható személy


third partier

(US politics) A member or supporter of a third party.


ETO

European Theater of Operations
w:European Theater of Operations

(US military, historical) Initialism of European Theater of Operations.


PMQs

For nine weeks Green sat by May’s side as serious allegations about his conduct emerged – and the Labour leader never raised a question at PMQs.

2018 July 16, Kate Maltby, Ava Etemadzadeh, “Harassment is parliament’s dirty cross-party secret. Is it about to change?”, in The Guardian:

David Davis tells Boris Johnson ‘in the name of God, go’ at chaotic PMQs [headline]

2022 January 19, Peter Walker, Rowena Mason, “David Davis tells Boris Johnson ‘in the name of God, go’ at chaotic PMQs”, in The Guardian:

Prime Minister's Questions
w:Prime Minister's Questions

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


marshal together

en-verb

marshal together (third-person singular simple present marshals together, present participle marshalling together or marshaling together, simple past and past participle marshalled together or marshaled together)

marshals together (present singular third-person)
marshalling together (participle present)
marshaling together (participle present)
marshalled together (participle past)
marshalled together (past)
marshaled together (participle past)
marshaled together (past)

(usually military) To gather together in an organized manner.


age out

age out (third-person singular simple present ages out, present participle aging out or ageing out, simple past and past participle aged out)

ages out (present singular third-person)
aging out (participle present)
ageing out (participle present)
aged out (participle past)
aged out (past)

The phrasal verb preposition out is analogous to run out. Usage was likely spread by the Boy Scouts of America, where it is largely used in the first sense to mean turning eighteen and becoming ineligible for the youth program.

The party's chances in the coming election looked grim as a large portion of their voters were going to age out.

(euphemistic, politics) To die or retire.


progun

en-adj

progun (comparative more progun, superlative most progun)

more progun (comparative)
most progun (superlative)
pro-gun (alternative)

Under the pro-gun leadership of Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves (R), the state Senate also approved several other NRA-supported bills this week.

2014, NRA Institute for Legal Action, "Mississippi: Senate Committee Passes Comprehensive Pro-Gun Legislation"

(politics) Supportive of gun rights, especially supportive of more expansive gun rights or strongly opposed to greater gun control.


Skysweeper

(military, historical) A kind of anti-aircraft gun used in the mid-20th century.


metapatriarchal

metapatriarchal (comparative more metapatriarchal, superlative most metapatriarchal)

more metapatriarchal (comparative)
most metapatriarchal (superlative)

From meta- + patriarchal, coined by Mary Daly (1928–2010), playing on multiple senses of meta-.

(feminism) Relating to transcendence over the patriarchy.


flat tax

flat taxes (plural)
flat rate tax (alternative)

Several candidates for the 1996 Republican Presidential nomination and some of the top Republican leaders in Congress are advocating replacing the graduated income tax with a flat tax.

1995 April 18, David E. Rosenbaum, “Washington Memo: Debate on Flat Tax Revives Simplicity vs. Fairness Issue”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-11-27:

Eyman's measure also would repeal the state tax on boats, 1 percent of the vessel's value, and replace it with a flat tax of $10.50 a year.

2001 November 18, David Ammons, “Eyman takes aim at some more taxes”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2015-11-27:

A flat tax means scrapping all income tax bands and the various exemptions and loopholes and replacing them with a single low rate.

2005 August 19, George Trefgarne, “The flat tax secrets that worried Brown did not want us to see”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2015-11-27:

(government, taxation) A tax, usually income tax, whose percentage rate or currency value remains constant, regardless of the amount to which the tax is applied.


revolving door syndrome

en-noun

revolving door syndrome (usually uncountable, plural revolving door syndromes)

revolving door syndromes (plural)
revolving-door syndrome (alternative)

Concerns exist on both sides of the Atlantic regarding the effectiveness of government watchdogs and the growing influence of special interest groups within the bureaucracy. ‘Iron triangles’ and ‘revolving door syndromes’ which began as Washington concerns are showing their face in the UK too.

2008, R. Uprichard, "The Bureaucracies," Lurgan College (Northern Ireland)

The report . . . called for a review of the effect of what it called a revolving door syndrome, in which analysts leave to work for an issuer whose debt they were rating.

2009 August 28, Cyrus Sanati, “Inspector Faults S.E.C. on Oversight of Rating Agencies”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-12-01:

That leads us to question whether other practices in parliament and politics may be vulnerable to corruption: conflicts of interest, the role of lobbying, political party funding and the "revolving door" syndrome in which parliamentarians take jobs in areas where their knowledge of some government departments gives them an undue advantage.

2010 February 5, Chandrashekhar Krishnan, “Abusing power for private gain”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2015-12-01:

(idiomatic, often government) A situation in which a person changes employers, perhaps more than once, switching between (a) employment with the government or with an organization having oversight authority and (b) employment with an organization regulated by or overseen by the other employer.


bipartidism

In fact, the number of candidatures and electoral choices were initially small and increased during the transition from bipartidism to pluripartidism [24 ].

2015 September 30, “Stylized Facts in Brazilian Vote Distributions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(politics) The state or condition of having a two-party system.


pluripartidism

The number of candidates was lower during the military regime due to the several restrictions, increased after the restoration of pluripartidism in 1980 and attained a relative stabilization at a higher level after 1986.


GIUK

(military) Initialism of Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom: the boundaries of a naval chokepoint in the northern Atlantic Ocean.


EPP

European People's Party
w:European People's Party

(EU politics) Initialism of European People's Party.


pluricontinentalism

From Portuguese pluricontinentalismo. Compare pluricontinental.

(politics, historical, rare) A geopolitical concept according to which Portugal was a unified nation-state spanning multiple continents.


empanoply

en-verb

empanoply (third-person singular simple present empanoplies, present participle empanoplying, simple past and past participle empanoplied)

empanoplies (present singular third-person)
empanoplying (participle present)
empanoplied (participle past)
empanoplied (past)

From em- (prefix meaning ‘on, onto; covered’) + panoply (“complete set of armour”); panoply is derived from Ancient Greek πᾰνοπλῐ́ᾱ (pănoplĭ́ā, “suit of armour”), from πάνοπλος (pánoplos, “in full armour”) (from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) + ὅπλον (hóplon, “armour; arms, weapons”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

der

I see, I see, empanoply'd in arms, / (Rapt with prophetic fire, sage Chiron cried), / O'er Phrygian plains wide hurling war's alarms, / Thy son, O Thetis, rise, his country's pride.

1784, William R[obert] Spencer, “Chorus from the Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides. Written at Harrow School, in the Year 1784.”, in Poems by the Late Hon. William R. Spencer; […], new edition, London: James Cochrane and Co., […], published 1835, →OCLC, strophe III, page 139:

The grand conglomerate hills of Araby, / That stand empanoplied in utmost thought, / With dazzling ramparts front the Indian sea, / Down there in Hadramaut.

1876, “Night the Sixth. [Hadramaut.]”, in The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 126:

High hope / Empanoplies the soul. Bright faith / Meets and o'ercomes the victor death, / And trusts the future's grander scope.

1886 May, Robert Brown, Jun., “To Miss Mildred Hope Courtney McDougall”, in A Trilogy of the Life-to-come and Other Poems, London: David Nutt, […], published 1887, →OCLC, page 92:

It didn't appear to Herbert, however, that Mrs. Brooks exhibited any extravagant joy over the occurrence, and she almost instantly retired with her daughter into the sitting-room, linking her arm in Cherry's, and, as it were, empanoplying her with own invulnerable shawl.

1889, Bret Harte, “A Secret of Telegraph Hill”, in The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 171:

Do not interrupt; a truce to your raillery! It will fall blunted, besides, on the cuirass of an invulnerable will, in which henceforth I am empanoplied.

1901, Henry Murger [i.e., Henri Murger], “Floods of Pactolus”, in Ellen Marriage, John Selwyn, transl., The Latin Quarter: (“Scènes de la Vie de Bohème”), New York, N.Y.: Doubleday Page and Company, →OCLC, page 101:

Oh, lovely are her [Paddington Station's] lean lines, and lovely her poise, / Empanoplying the long, dim frenzy of noise.

1912, Thomas Burke, “Paddington”, in Pavements and Pastures: A Book of Songs, London: Printed by the London and Norwich Press, →OCLC; republished in London Lamps: A Book of Songs, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1919, →OCLC, page 15:

He was marvelling anew, no doubt, as he was presently to express it to the tribunal, that Satan should be permitted so admirably and deceptively to empanoply his servants.

1928, Rafael Sabatini, “The Holy Office”, in The Hounds of God: A Romance, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 222:

(transitive, British, military, historical, also figuratively) To dress in a full suit of armour; to panoply.


squipper

A third significant omission is due to the fact that large numbers of Chinook, Puma and Hercules aircrews [...] together with all the 'loadies', 'sooties', 'squippers' and ground crews that support them, continue, at the time of writing, to be heavily involved in Operation Safe Haven along the northern borders of Iraq.

1991, Charles Allen, Thunder & Lightning: The RAF in the Gulf : Personal Experiences of War, Stationery Office/Tso:

After stripping off all my other kit, I held my rubber- gloved hands behind me, the last bits still in the dirty zone, and the squipper peeled the gloves off.

1995, John Peters, John Nichol, Neil Hanson, Team Tornado: Life on a Front-Line Squadron, →ISBN:

Giving evidence to the inquest in Lincoln Cpl Morris, a Survival Equipment Fitter or “squipper” with the RAF, said he was not far from Flt Lt Cunningham’s jet at the time of the tragedy as the team prepared to fly to RAF Valley in Wales.

2014 January 20, “Red Arrows pilot inquest: Colleague tells how he watched tragedy unfold”, in Coventry Telegraph:

(UK, military, slang) A survival equipment fitter.


Frexit

Blend of France + exit, possibly as an adaptation of Brexit.

And while brexit is still on the agenda, after the European Parliament elections from May 22-25 it is quite legitimate to ask ourselves the question whether there is a danger of losing France - in other words is there a risk of a frexit?

2014 May 31, Adelina Marini, “Is It Time for a Frexit?”, in euinside:

The Front National won the French elections with calls for an immediate restoration of the franc and a referendum on Frexit.

2014 June, World Commerce Review, volume 8, number 2, page 3:

If Brexit happens can Frexit — France exiting the existing EU — be far behind?

2015, Denis MacShane, Brexit: How Britain will Leave Europe, page 9:

In France, opinion polls show that the far-right National Front, led by self-styled "Madame Frexit" Marine Le Pen, is now more popular than the center-right Republicans or ruling Socialists.

2015 November 9, Ian Bremmer, Time, volume 186, number 19, page 12:

It no longer advocates Frexit from the EU or leaving the euro currency.

2018 June 4, Maïa de La Baume, “Populist plan for 2019 election puts EU in crosshairs: The next European Parliament could well have more Euroskeptic voices. But can they work together?”, in Politico:

Her European policy is Frexit by stealth – unilaterally reducing payments to the EU budget and breaking EU laws she does not like.

2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian:

In a sort of shadow “Frexit”, the one-time member of the European Parliament calls for “disobeying” EU deficit rules and regulations.

2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

(French politics) The possible act of France leaving the European Union.


sniperscope

(military) A night vision device used to assist snipers in locating their targets in the dark.


munitioner

(military) A manufacturer of munitions; someone who manufactures munitions; a munitioneer


Portillo moment

en-noun

Portillo moment (plural Portillo moments)

Originally referred to the 1997 United Kingdom general election in which Michael Portillo, a prominent Conservative representing what was thought to be a safe seat, unexpectedly lost to the Labour candidate.

But with FF seat losses by the dozen all over the country, the Portillo moments were stacked on several levels, like a good tin of biscuits.

2013, Paddy Duffy, Did That Actually Happen?: A Journey Through Unbelievable Moments in Irish Politics, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Possibly the biggest Portillo moment north of the border, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury is also in danger of losing his seat according to the marginal polls.

2015 May 7, Sebastian Payne, “Election night: the ten ‘Portillo moments’ to watch out for”, in The Spectator:

It's the 2015 General Election's Portillo moment - but who is the Tory who's scalped shadow chancellor Ed Balls by just 422 votes?

2015 May 8, Dan Bloom, “Andrea Jenkyns ousts Ed Balls: Everything you need to know about Tory who defeated Labour giant”, in The Mirror:

(UK politics) An election loss for a prominent politician.


house of assembly

house of assembly (plural houses of assembly)

houses of assembly (plural)
House of Assembly (alternative)

A Governor, with two houses of legislature, generally called the Senate and the House of Representatives, exists in each State. In the State of New York the Lower House is called the Assembly. . . . The House of Assembly does consist of 128 members.

1862, Anthony Trollope, North America, ch. 15: Constitution of the State of New York

Magon Farcinelle, farrier, farmer and member of the provincial legislature . . . had never made a speech in the House of Assembly, and it was hard to tell why he was elected, save because everybody liked him.

1896, Gilbert Parker, chapter 1, in The Pomp of the Lavilettes:

President P. W. Botha . . . tried to appease critics of South Africa's whites-only legislature, the House of Assembly, by creating a mixed-race chamber, the House of Representatives, and another smaller forum for ethnic Asians, the House of Delegates.

1988 October 4, Christopher S. Wren, “Residential Apartheid Arouses Anger”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-12-21:

The comments followed a decision last week by a Foreign Office minister, Chris Bryant, to instruct the governor of the Turks & Caicos, Gordon Wetherell, to bring into force an order suspending the islands' government and its House of Assembly for up to two years.

2009 August 16, Jamie Doward, “Islanders split as Whitehall takes over Turks and Caicos”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2015-12-21:

Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth of Nations

bicameral legislature
bicameral legislature

(politics) Especially in current or former countries of the Commonwealth of Nations and in former British colonies, the official meeting place of elected legislators (usually the lower house of a bicameral legislature) where laws are debated and enacted.


DISCOM

(US, military) Acronym of division support command.


uchi mata

(judo) A judo throw that uses the thigh to unbalance the opponent.


DUSTWUN

(military) Acronym of duty status, whereabouts unknown.


pro memoria

Borrowed from Latin pro memoria (literally “for memory”).

bor

en:nonformalized document for discussion in diplomacy

(diplomacy) A document circulated in a meeting or summit for discussion purposes.


CDI factor

You don't buy a LaRue because you want lightweight. You buy it for the durability (And the CDI factor)

2007, Patrick Sweeney, The Gun Digest Book of the AR-15, Volume 2, Gun Digest Books, page 109:

Instead of donning their equipment for the right reasons, with the understanding that it takes thousands of hours to attain a basic skill level, some Special Operations soldiers wear their gear for the CDI (chicks dig it) factor and forget the reality that this is hard work.

2011, Paul R. Howe, Leadership and Training for the Fight: Using Special Operations Principles to Succeed in Law Enforcement, Business, and War, Skyhorse Publishing, page 12:

'Never decide Pattern A just looks cooler than Pattern B. The Marine Corps call that a "CDI factor" – chicks dig it,' said Timothy O'Neill, a former professor of engineering psychology at West Point who has spent 37 years concocting and analyzing the latest in military camouflage

2012 July 17, “Uncloaked: How Army is testing new camo to replace flawed design”, in NBC News:

[…] SWAT is a highly-specialized skill that takes recurrent (and expensive) training to maintain. Simply kitting out police officers in high-CDI-factor equipment is not enough.

2015, David G. Bolgiano, L. Morgan Banks, III, James M. Patterson, Virtuous Policing: Bridging America's Gulf Between Police and Populace, CRC Press, page 89:

(US military or law enforcement slang) An intangible quality of certain items of professional equipment that is believed to stir inordinate interest in obtaining the item because it makes the possessor feel confident, cool and thus desirable to women.


DHP

(law enforcement, terrorism, politics) Initialism of deemed high-profile.


Corbynite

A leading KC who as a young barrister represented the Association of London Authorities at the Fennell Inquiry into the King's Cross fire, he is associated with Labour's Corbynite left.

2024 July 24, “Network News: Labour's new team at DfT packed with railway experience”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 9:

(UK politics) A supporter of Jeremy Corbyn (born 1949), British socialist politician elected leader of the Labour Party in 2015.


embrace the suck

en-verb

embrace the suck (third-person singular simple present embraces the suck, present participle embracing the suck, simple past and past participle embraced the suck)

embraces the suck (present singular third-person)
embracing the suck (participle present)
embraced the suck (participle past)
embraced the suck (past)

So go ahead and embrace the suck of the first mile or so, you'll be through it soon enough.

2013, Brett Stewart, 7 Weeks to a 10K, →ISBN:

But I embraced the suck and shelled out three thousand dollars for something I didn't want and something that would give me nothing to show for.

2014, Hailey Dollar, A Girl Lost to the World and Found in the Art of War, →ISBN:

If you can embrace the suck, you can overcome almost any obstacle or difficulty.

2015, Rob Roy, Chris Lawson, The Navy SEAL Art of War, →ISBN:

"I'm sorry, girl. I don't know what to say. Just: embrace the suck.” Lorrie Ann understood that this was soldier slang and that it meant something along the lines of “The world is shitty, but we've got to deal with it.”

2015, Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona Del Mar, →ISBN, page 71:

Nancy Pelosi used some colorful language to cajole her fellow House Democrats into accepting the compromise budget deal. As first reported by Politico, she told them to "embrace the suck." ... [W]hen did military types start talking about embracing the suck? Capt. Benjamin Tupper, who contibuted to Slate 's military blog The Sandbox, remembers first hearing "embrace the suck" in 2001, soon after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. "The spirits of the American infantrymen were undeterred," Tupper wrote in his book Greetings from Afghanistan. "Their Zen-like approach was to ' embrace the suck,' a strategy of treating the hardships as friends, not enemies, and driving on."

2013 December 13, Ben Zimmer, “Nancy Pelosi Told House Democrats to "Embrace the Suck." Where Did That Phrase Come From?”, in Slate:

(military, slang) To consciously accept or appreciate something that is extremely unpleasant but unavoidable.


LAM

(military, weaponry) Abbreviation of light antiarmor/antiarmour missile.

(military, weaponry) Abbreviation of land attack missile.

(military, weaponry) Abbreviation of loitering attack missile.


Liberal Republican

en-noun

Liberal Republican (plural Liberal Republicans)

(US politics, dated) A member of the Liberal Republican Party, a third way party that existed briefly in the 1870s.


fauxgressive

/fəʊˈɡɹɛsɪv/

“Bill de Blasio is an elitist, New York City corporate Democrat fauxgressive, masquerading around South Carolina as a progressive,” said John Samuelson, president of Transport Workers Union.

2019 March 8, Carl Campanile, quoting John Samuelson, “Transit union blasts de Blasio as ‘fauxgressive’ ahead of primary season”, in New York Post:

(politics, derogatory) An alleged progressive person, but who actually acts like a conservative.


fauxgressive

en-adj

fauxgressive (comparative more fauxgressive, superlative most fauxgressive)

more fauxgressive (comparative)
most fauxgressive (superlative)

/fəʊˈɡɹɛsɪv/

In many spaces, the term functions now as performative fauxgressive politeness—as one of the many buzzwords such as intersectionality or systemic that one can drop, with little understanding, to display her wokeness.

2019 February 13, Rachelle Hampton, “Which People?”, in Slate:

With their fauxgressive covers officially blown, Twitter is blowing up with stories about the disturbing new dating trend.

2020 July 30, Ben Cost, “Wokefish’ dating trend: Shady men are pretending to be progressive on apps”, in New York Post:

(politics, derogatory) Allegedly, but not actually, progressive.


Lieutenant Colonel

en-noun

Lieutenant Colonel (plural Lieutenant Colonels)

Lieutenant Colonels (plural)
Lieutenant-Colonel (alternative)

Lieutenant Colonels Smith and Gildea were awarded the Order of the Fatherland, Second Class.

1955, Carl R[aymond] Gray, Jr., “Operations in Iran, 1942-1945”, in Railroading in Eighteen Countries: The Story of American Railroad Men serving in the Military Railway Service, 1862 to 1953, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 268:

(military) An army officer title for the rank of lieutenant colonel, found in many countries.

(military) A military officer title used in English for ranks that are treated as the equivalent to the rank of lieutenant colonel, in which the equivalent ranks are found in most countries.


Army General

(military) A title used in many countries to denote the rank of general nominally commanding an army in the field.


tallywoman

(Ireland, politics) A female counting agent.


Sanderista

Sanderistas (plural)
Sandernista (alternative)

From Sanders + -ista. Blend of Sanders + Sandinista. Coined in reference to the Sandinistas.

7/83 Space Wars; Micronesia vs. nukes; Green Party & Sanderistas; also Spring Books Pt. 2

1983, WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Non-violent Action, volume 19, Workshop in Nonviolence Institute, page 38:

A special approach of the Sanderista coalition has been to mobilize this complex of popular groups into an independent political force.

In other cases, groups fostered the creation of current organizations and movements, for example, PACT (tenants' rights) in Burlington, Vermont, laid the groundwork for the Sanderistas.

2012, Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, page 152:

Call it what you will—a Sanderista cult, a brand, a following—Vermonters responded to Sanders.

2015, Harry Jaffe, Why Bernie Sanders Matters:

During the war that continued for the rest of the 1980s, Burlington's Progressives identified strongly with the FSLN, to the point of earning for themselves the nickname "Sanderistas."

2015, Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, page 223:

(US politics, colloquial) A supporter of Bernie Sanders or his political philosophy.


premodular

(US, military) Before the reorganization of the United States Army into modular brigades.


bedroom tax

(UK politics) A reduction in housing benefit for people who live in social housing that is deemed underoccupied.


barrel bomb

(military aviation) A barrel filled with explosives, used as an improvised unguided bomb and dropped from a helicopter or airplane.


unsight

en-verb

unsight (third-person singular simple present unsights, present participle unsighting, simple past and past participle unsighted)

unsights (present singular third-person)
unsighting (participle present)
unsighted (participle past)
unsighted (past)

Just jeep as the Sten magazine emptied there came a single shot from the far end of the lane and in the same instant a bullet cracked over Butler's head.The jeep swung sharply to the right, unsighting him.


Adamsite

(US politics, historical) A supporter of John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), American statesman who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829.


beerage

Blend of beer + peerage, coined in the late 19th century in response to the awarding of honours to brewers.

(UK politics) The influence of the brewing industry within the British political system.


semula

Unadapted borrowing from Malay semula, a drill command, meaning "all over again".

(Singapore, Singlish, chiefly military, slang) To redo or restart (something) from the beginning.


wommonhood

From wommon + -hood, modelled on womanhood.

(feminism, rare) Nonstandard spelling of womanhood.


Austromarxism

(historical, politics) A form of Austrian Marxism that attempted to reconcile nationality and nationalism with socialism in the imperial context.


foreparty

foreparties (plural)
fore-party (alternative)

From Middle English forepartye, equivalent to fore- + party.

(military) A group or party which advances in front of the contingent; a scout.


lampassé

[…] Quarterly, 1, or, upon a rock proper an eagle in profille, proper, lampassé, gules; in his right claw a bunch of six arrows [...] Between wings, alternately or and azure, a stag's head proper, with antlers of yen, lampassé gules. Lambrequins : Azure and or.

1903, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, pages 129–131:

... the said James Smith haue thought fitt to declare and Assigne vnto him such armes as are herevnder mencõned (Viz) Azure a lyon Rampant or Armed and Lampasse Gules on a Cheiff Argent a Mullett of the third between two Torteuxes and[…]

1908, William Harry Rylands, The Four Visitations of Berkshire Made and Taken by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux, Anno 1532; by William Harvey, Clarenceux, Anno 1566; by Henry Chitting, Chester Herald, and John Philipott, Rouge Dragon, for William Camden, Clarenceux, Anno 1623; and by Elias Ashmole, Windsor Herald, for Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, Anno 1665-66, page 212:

... a lion sable, armed and lampassé gules; ...

1911, Monnett Family Genealogy: An Emphasis of a Noble Huguenot Heritage, Somewhat of the First Immigrants Isaac1 and Pierre1 Monnet, page 170:


antisniping

(military) Countering or opposing sniping.


Trumpist

The centrão secured the firing of the Trumpist foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo, for his failure to buy vaccines;

2021 April 10, “Brazil’s army is trying to distance itself from Jair Bolsonaro”, in The Economist:

[...] people dressed in Trumpist apparel, waving Trump flags, and chanting Trumpist slogans stormed the Capitol building.

2023 May 23, Nathan L. King, Keith D. Wyma, “Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Character”, in Michael W. Austin, Gregory L. Bock, editors, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

Not every right-wing judge is as blatantly ideological in their decision making as Kacsmaryk, nor is every Republican appointee a Trumpist zealot.

2024 [2023 December 5], Adam Serwer, “A MAGA Judiciary”, in The Atlantic, volume 333, number 1, →ISSN, page 41:

(politics) Pertaining to or resembling characteristics of Trumpism. Synonym of Trumpian.


Trumpist

(US politics) An admirer or fan of Donald Trump.

2016 November 18, “Neil Woodford: right-wing Trumpists could topple euro”, in CityWire (UK):

He [Scott Morrison] remains afraid of the far-right extremist fringe dwellers who make up the bedrock of his personal support and who he cultivates through the avatars of Trumpists and conspiracy theorists like Craig Kelly and George Christensen.

2021 April 10, “'PM afraid of the far-right extremists, Trumpists and conspiracy theorists': Albanese”, in Sky News Australia:

(politics) A person exhibiting characteristics of Trumpism.


Parthian shot

The military tactic was made famous in Rome by the Parthians, an empire on their eastern border.

(historical, military) A military maneuver where archers on horseback turned their bodies back in full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy.


SCPHN

(UK, healthcare) Initialism of specialist community public health nursing.


silk elevator

(aviation, military, slang) A parachute.


hard left

This new hard left includes several interesting social strands. There is the far left, close to the Communist Party, with its naive assumptions about the unity of interest and purpose among working class people

Though the Left is stronger in the party than ever before, it is divided into different factions such as "soft left", led by Michael Foot and Kinnock, "hard left" led by Tony Benn and the Tribune Group, and the "far left" consisting of various groups of Trotskyites.

The debate around 'popular alliances' has come to the forefront of left debate in Britain and it has been suggested that this is giving rise to a radical re-alignment of the left; on the one side groupings devoted to a British 'historic compromise' of popular forces and movements (Eurocommunists in the Communist Party, the Labour Co-ordinating Committee, sections of the women's movement, etc.); on the other side an alliance of old Trotskyist far left, the Labour Party hard left and sectarians within the Communist Party which is committed to an alliance against monopoly capitalled by the (male) industrial working class

2015, Les Johnston, Marxism, Class Analysis and Socialist Pluralism (RLE Marxism): A Theoretical and Political Critique of Marxist Conceptions of Politics, Routledge, →ISBN:

(chiefly UK, politics) The section of the left wing that supports traditional socialist policies, distinguished from the social democratic centre-left and the communist and anarchist far left.


hard left

en-adj

hard left (comparative harder left, superlative hardest left)

harder left (comparative)
hardest left (superlative)

(politics) Alternative form of hard-left.


bipolarization

en-noun

bipolarization (countable and uncountable, plural bipolarizations)

(politics) polarization into two opposing factions


one-nation conservatism

Refers to the fact that all classes are part of the same nation.

All this links Johnson firmly with his predecessors – Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May. So does (with Thatcher as the exception that proves the rule) his eagerness – on full display in his remarks in Downing Street on Friday – to employ that emptiest of empty signifiers, “one-nation Conservatism”.

[2019 December 14, Tim Bale, “The real Boris Johnson: one-nation Tory or raging populist?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(UK politics) A pragmatic paternalistic form of conservatism, conscious of working-class issues.


one-nation conservative

one-nation conservative (plural one-nation conservatives)

one-nation conservatism
one-nation conservatism

(UK politics) A follower of one-nation conservatism.


putinisation

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

From Putin + -ise + -ation or Putinise + -ation.

(politics, British spelling) The taking over of power utilizing allegedly undemocratic means.


kiyi

From the pronunciation of the abbreviation KIA (killed in action).

You know that Doc's been treating him for melancholy and depression... ever since he got that kiyi about his son... … Kiyi: K.I.A.: Killed In Action letter from the War Dept.

1940s, Sam Glanzman, "The Kiyi", in Our Army at War #258, July 1973

(US military slang) An official letter informing of a person killed in action.

пахава́льная

an official letter informing of a person killed in action


bucket of sunshine

bucket of sunshine (plural buckets of sunshine)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bucket of sunshine.wav

(military slang, euphemistic) A nuclear weapon.


coalitionology

During the working lunch "between Old Danish [well known aquavit] and matured cheese," as Carl Bildt put it, "comparative coalitionology" was discussed.

1991 October 25, Daily Report. West Europe (United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service) FBIS-WEU-91-207 p.17

But, surely, we and all other media organisations allowed the poll numbers to infect our thinking: there was too much ‘coalitionology’ as a result. The BBC did better than others on this, but, with the benefit of hindsight, we would all have been better off with less discussion of deals and allowed the dissection of policy - that we did from defence to social care, housing to education - to speak for itself.

2015 June 2, James Harding, Speech at VLV Conference:

It led to an explosion of coalitionology, debating hung parliaments, possible coalitions, constitutional process and the 'legitimacy' of various outcomes, as everyone prepared for post-election deals.

2015 December 16, Philip Cowley, Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2015, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 297:

But his advice was for the party to major on policy issues and avoid what he called "coalitionology".

2016 January 18, Tim Bale, quoted in "'Grand coalition' option cannot be ruled out" Irish Independent

Speaking on the same programme, Harry McGee, Political Correspondent of the Irish Times, said it was all about "coalitionology", with much speculation about combinations.

2016 January 18, Latest polls suggest current Coalition will fall short of majority, RTÉ

It’s been called “coalitionology”: the new parlour and parliamentary game being played all over the country. Leaving aside internal divisions within parties as to whom they would prefer as part[n]ers, here are the combinations that would work mathematically.

2020 February 12, Senan Molony, "Election 2020: ‘Coalitionology’ — your guide to possible partners for a majority" The Times [Ireland edition]

2020 February 15, Pat Leahy, “Coalitionology: Sinn Féin’s most realistic route to power is closed. What now?”, in The Irish Times:

(British, Ireland, politics) (excessive) speculation around the time of a general election about possible coalition governments that might ensue


racial grievance industry

the racial grievance industry (canonical)

Too, it will discuss how American business has long been subject to blackmail by the racial grievance industry in the name of social justice; as well as the many other ways in which the regime of racial preferences has sowed division, corruption, and resentment in this country.

2013, Harry Stein, Why We Won't Talk Honestly About Race:

(politics, derogatory) The activists, academics, and organizations whom conservatives allege to be using race issues to acquire power or money.


LHA

Abbreviation
* (data compression): Short for Lempel-Ziv Huffman archiver, after the mathematicians on whose work it was based.

amphibious assault ship
amphibious assault ship

(nautical, military, aviation) Initialism of landing, helicopter, assault: A type of amphibious assault ship, a warship.


TOT

TOT (countable and uncountable, plural TOTs)

(taxation, Kenya) Initialism of turnover tax.


WAAC

(US, military, historical) Initialism of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.


WAAC

(US, military, historical) A member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.


policy by press release

(politics, derogatory) An attempt to influence public policy through press releases intended to alarm the public into demanding action from their elected officials.


Bremain

Blend of Britain + remain, by analogy with Brexit.

"We want Britain to remain in the EU. We want not "Brexit" but "Bremain"."

2015 June 22, David Milliken, “U.S. and EU face 'heavy lift' to get trade deal: EU ambassador”, in Reuters:

Like the old Tory trouper Michael Heseltine, I think we can rule out him leading the “Outers.” For Brexit, read Bremain.

2015 October 8, Paul Routledge, “Europe referendum is the big political issue – but where do the parties stand?”, in The Mirror:

Brexit or Bremain? That is the question British voters may have to answer in just five months’ time on 23 June, if David Cameron’s renegotiation ends with a deal at the EU summit in February.

2016 February 21, Timothy Garton Ash, “Whether Brexit or Bremain, fear will triumph over fear”, in The Guardian:

But today the disconnect was heightened further as London's army of Bremain-backing resident called on the city's new mayor Sadiq Khan, to declare Greater London and its nine million population an independent state.

2016 June 25, Jon Austin, “Could London become an EU state? Calls for independence after capital votes to Bremain”, in Express:

(UK politics) The fact of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union.


Czexit

/ˈt͡ʃɛɡ.zɪt/

“So far in the Czech Republic this is proposed only by fringe parties with minimal public appeal — but if Brexit happens, it would be much more attractive to propose a Czexit for parties like Civic Democratic Party [ODS] (ex-party of former president Václav Klaus) or for the communists,” Prouza said.

2016 February 23, Tara Palmeri, “Brexit ‘could lead to Czexit’”, in Politico:

Czech PM Bohuslav Sobotka has caused an all-EU debate on Czexit by his warning against the gloomy effects of Britain's EU departure on Czechs, in consequence of which the rest of the EU may part with the Czechs prematurely, Tomas Menschik writes in weekly Tyden out on Monday.

2016 March 1, “Týden: PM's hint at Czexit may backfire on Prague, oust it from EU”, in Prague Daily Monitor:

But there has already been an attempt to hold a Czexit referendum.

2016 June 25, Rebecca Perring, “MAPPED: Czexit, Pexit, Frexit - EU referendum CONTAGION sweeps Europe amid political quake”, in Express:

Mr Babiš insists he won’t seek a Czexit if he becomes prime minister.

2017 October 14, Tim Gosling, “Anti-establishment billionaire leads race to become Czech prime minister”, in The Telegraph:

(politics) The possible act of the Czech Republic leaving the European Union.


deass

en-verb

deass (third-person singular simple present deasses, present participle deassing, simple past and past participle deassed)

deasses (present singular third-person)
deassing (participle present)
deassed (participle past)
deassed (past)
de-ass (alternative)

(transitive, US, military, law enforcement, slang) To exit or depart from (an area) rapidly.


triple A

Tower One approach has active Triple-A!

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Hocus (Debra Wilson Skelton), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Covenant:

(military) Abbreviation of anti-aircraft artillery.


pink tax

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

(informal, feminism) The relative increase in price paid for women's consumer items compared to similar products marketed to men.


red scarf

en-noun

red scarf (plural red scarves or red scarfs)

red scarves (plural)
red scarfs (plural)

(communism) A neckerchief worn by a young pioneer, typically red in color.


young pioneer

(communism) A child who is a junior member of a Communist party, or similar movement.


Christian Democrat

Christian Democrat (plural Christian Democrats)

Christian Democrats (plural)
Christian democrat (alternative)

(politics) A supporter of Christian Democracy.


libshit

(derogatory, vulgar, politics) Synonym of liberal.


technical submission

technical submission (plural technical submissions)

(martial arts) A submission declared by a referee in cases when a participant has sustained an injury or becomes unconscious


funkhole

From funk + hole; see funk (“cowardice”).


NIBMAR

(UK, politics, historical) Abbreviation of no independence before majority rule: a policy adopted by the United Kingdom requiring the implementation of majority rule in a colony, rather than rule by the white colonial minority, before the colony could be granted independence.


yomper

(military, slang) A soldier who participates in a yomp, or long-distance march.


rangekeeper

(military, historical) An early electromechanical computer used to direct gunfire.