hostage negotiator

en-noun

hostage negotiator (plural hostage negotiators)

Modern hostage negotiation principles began in 1972 when, then New York Police Detective Harvey Schlossberg, a police officer with a PHD in psychology, recognized the need for trained personnel in the intervention of hostage situations.

(politics, law) A person who negotiates with a person, or groups of persons, for the release of a person, or groups of persons.

túsztárgyaló

a person who negotiates with a person, or groups of persons, for the release of a person, or groups of persons


smart money

The reader may remember that Mr Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little horse, as a kind of smart-money for the punishment which he imagined he had suffered innocently.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

(military, historical) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injuries received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service.


firebase

firebases (plural)
fire-base (alternative)
fire base (alternative)

They had each set up a one-tank firebase, and become the center of a small community. Behind the sandbagged fort that each crew had built, a cluster of refugee huts and sprung up, and now, as the company drove by, these were the scenes of farewells.

1986, Ralph Zumbro, “Road to Pleiku”, in Tank Sergeant, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 102:

US ground troop operations in the A Shau Valley were strengthened by fire support bases strategically located throughout the area. Firebase names like Eagle's Nest, Berchtesgaden, and Currahee evoked connections to the 101st Airborne's storied past during WWII. […] Our assignment after Hamburger Hill was at Firebase Airborne. […] The firebase housed batteries of 60mm and 81mm mortars, as well as 105mm and 155mm artillery pieces manned by units of the 211st and 319th Field Artillery.

2005, Arthur Wiknik, Jr., “The A Shau Valley”, in Nam-sense: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division, Drexel Hill, Pa., Newbury, Berkshire: Casemate Publishers, →ISBN, page 55:

Firebase Birmingham seemed pretty nice after our recent field experiences and it was good to be back. It was really great to be able to take a shower every day, wear relatively clean fatigues and eat hot chow most of the time. The food on Birmingham and the rest of the firebases was generally pretty good.

2008, John A. Nesse, “Firebase Gastogne”, in The Ghosts of Thua Thien: An American Soldier's Memoir of Vietnam, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 79:

(military) An encampment designed to provide indirect artillery support to infantry troops operating beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps; a fire support base.

Firebase Phoenix
Korangal Valley
United States Army


reoffer

en-verb

reoffer (third-person singular simple present reoffers, present participle reoffering, simple past and past participle reoffered)

reoffers (present singular third-person)
reoffering (participle present)
reoffered (participle past)
reoffered (past)

"I am announcing that I will not be reoffering as the candidate in the riding of Malpeque in the next federal election."

2021 June 14, Sara Fraser, “'It's been an honour': Wayne Easter announces he won't reoffer in next federal election”, in CBC News (news):

Meanwhile, in the riding of Cape Breton-Canso, Rodger Cuzner also plans to reoffer.

2018 July 11, Jeremy Fraser, “Sydney-Victoria MP to reoffer”, in Cape Breton Post (news):

(Canada, politics) To campaign for elected office on a second or subsequent occasion, esp. in the context of declining to do so.


antiunion

en-adj

antiunion (comparative more antiunion, superlative most antiunion)

more antiunion (comparative)
most antiunion (superlative)
anti-union (alternative)

an antiunion piece of legislation

The governor is strongly antiunion.

(politics) Opposed to, or discouraging the formation of, trade unions

პროფკავშირების მოწინააღმდეგე

opposed to, or discouraging the formation of, trade unions


abattage

abattages (plural)
abatage (alternative)

(military) The anchoring of the wheels of an artillery piece, preparatory to firing.


ermined

[...] one of them being, Argent, within a bordure gules, the cross, crown of thorns, scourges and nails: the field of the other is ermined gules, with the pillar of the flagellation, the spear and reed.

1851, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Norfolk and the City of Norwich, page 201:

(heraldry) Having an ermine tincture in a colour other than black and white.


striper

* (device): From stripe (verb) + -er (agent noun suffix).
* (fish): From stripe (noun) + -er (relational suffix).
* (military): From stripe (noun) + -er (suffix denoting a person to whom a certain number of something applies).

suffix

er<id:agent noun><pos:agent noun suffix>

He's a four-striper, a group captain.

1956, Louis Reichers, The Flying Years, page 110:

(military, in combination) A person who is authorized to wear a certain number of stripes on his or her uniform.


laydown

en-noun

laydown (countable and uncountable, plural laydowns)

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The offense could contrive a variety of laydowns to intensify the defense's problems.

1984, Ashton B. Carter et al., Ballistic Missile Defense, →ISBN, page 141:


hakapik

hakapiks (plural)
hakapick (alternative)
hackapik (alternative)
hackapick (alternative)

From Norwegian Nynorsk hakapik, from hake (“hook”) + pik (“spike”).

(weaponry) A hunting implement, a long pole with a pick and hammer on the end, used by sealers to bludgeon seals and drag their carcasses to the sealing boat.


jark

en-verb

jark (third-person singular simple present jarks, present participle jarking, simple past and past participle jarked)

jarks (present singular third-person)
jarking (participle present)
jarked (participle past)
jarked (past)

At the end of the day, it was inevitable that the IRA would discover that its weapons were being jarked.

1996, Andy McNab, Immediate Action, page 365:

'Anna' and 'Mary' were involved in operations that drew on a variety of intelligence data: ‘jarking’; information from agents;[…]One of the weapons, perhaps the Armalite, had been ‘jarked’ by the ‘Det’ and tracked for some time.

2001, Peter Taylor, Brits:the War Against the IRA, page 255:

An especially creative method was known as “jarking,” which involved “the placing of tiny tracking devices on weapons in arms caches so their movements can be followed.”⁸

2010, Christopher C. Harmon, Andrew N. Pratt, Sebastian Gorka, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism, page 197:

The homes and safe houses he provided were bugged; the weapons hidden in empty houses were ‘jarked’ so the security forces could keep track of them, and the vehicles used to ferry weapons put under close surveillance.

2010, Ed Moloney, Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland, page 282:

(slang, military, British) To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach a tracking device to and covertly monitor the location of (a weapon).


mission kill

(military, slang) An attack or damage inflicted by a weapon that does not destroy a military vehicle but results in it taking no further part in its intended mission.


mobility kill

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(military, slang) The damage inflicted by a weapon on a vehicle that immobilises it, but does not totally destroy it, leaving the vehicle's crew able to use its weapons. Typically this term is used to refer to tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles that have their engines, tracks, or running gear damaged.


spinner

From Middle English spynnere; equivalent to spin + -er.

He's been telling his army of spinners, and DC and Boy George too, that Radio 4 is for the chattering classes, and only people like Cameron and Miliband tune in to watch Paxo on Newsnight last thing at night.

2011, Larry the Cat, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days, page 15:


PLAN

People's Liberation Army Navy
w:People's Liberation Army Navy

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

(nautical, military) Abbreviation of People's Liberation Army Navy The national navy of the People's Republic of China.


People's Liberation Army

Calque of Chinese 人民解放軍 /人民解放军 (rénmín jiěfàngjūn).

calque

People's Liberation Army Ground Force
People's Liberation Army Ground Force

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(military) People's Liberation Army Ground Force, the army branch of the military arm of the People's Republic of China.

ჩინეთის სახალხო-განმანთავისუფლებელი არმია

dulimbai gurun niyalma irgen sulambushūn cooha

ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠᡳ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠯᠮᠠ ᡳᡵᡤᡝᠨ ᠰᡠᠯᠠᠮᠪᡠᠰᡥᡡᠨ ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ

(military) The military arm of the People's Republic of China.


chokehold

chokeholds (plural)
choke hold (alternative)
choke-hold (alternative)

/ˈt͡ʃəʊkˌhəʊld/

/ˈt͡ʃəʊkˌhəʊld/

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He put his opponent in a chokehold.

(martial arts, wrestling) A grappling hold around the neck that cuts off the flow of air to the brain.


lower house

In March, Thais will vote for the 500-seat lower house of parliament. But the 250-member upper house, or Senate, will be chosen entirely by the military.

2019 February 8, Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, “This princess could be the next prime minister of Thailand”, in CNN International Edition, Cable News Network, retrieved 2019-02-08:

(government) The lower legislative house in a bicameral legislature; in many cases, the one that is directly elected and/or has more practical power, such as the power to raise and spend money.


lower chamber

(government) The lower legislative chamber in a bicameral legislature; in many cases, the one that is directly elected and/or has more practical power, such as the power to raise and spend money.


upper chamber

(government) The upper legislative chamber in a bicameral legislature; usually smaller and having more restricted power than the lower chamber.


upper house

It was, however, thrown out when it reached the " Upper House," as the Legislative Council is designated.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 286:

(government) The upper legislative house in a bicameral legislature; usually smaller and having more restricted power than the lower house.


apoliticism

en-noun

apoliticism (countable and uncountable, plural apoliticisms)


section automatic weapon

section automatic weapon (plural section automatic weapons)

squad automatic weapon
squad automatic weapon

personal machine gun
personal machine gun

(weaponry) squad automatic weapon, a class of light machine gun; a machine gun issued to a section of troops, being heavier than the standard assault rifle and personal machine guns issued per trooper.


squad automatic weapon

squad automatic weapon (plural squad automatic weapons)

(military, weaponry) A kind of light machine gun; a machine gun issued to a squad of troops, being heavier than the standard assault rifles, personal machine guns, machine carbines, battle rifles issued per trooper.


one-two punch

(boxing) A combination of two punches, one from each hand, thrown in rapid succession.


corbeil

From French corbeil, from Latin corbicula, from corbis (“a basket”). Doublet of corbicula.

(military) A basket filled with earth and set up as a protection from the fire of the enemy.


cruiserweight

(boxing, British, obsolete) light heavyweight

(boxing) A boxer weighing less than 200lb; heavier than a light heavyweight and lighter than a heavyweight.

(wrestling) A wrestler weighing less than 210lb; heavier than a light heavyweight and lighter than a heavyweight.


antiterror

(law enforcement, military) Opposing or preventing terrorism.


unipolar

international system
international system

(politics) Of or relating to an international system in which one state wields most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.


antispending

en-adj

antispending (comparative more antispending, superlative most antispending)

more antispending (comparative)
most antispending (superlative)

He ran on an antispending platform.

(politics) Opposed to or combating spending, especially government spending


ged

From Middle English gedde, from Old Norse gedda (“pike”), cognate with Icelandic gedda (“pike”), Danish gedde (“pike”).

(UK, dialect or heraldry) The pike or luce.


NLD

National League for Democracy
w:National League for Democracy

(politics) Initialism of National League for Democracy.


antistate

Nobody doubts there are individuals and groups that are advocating the use of antistate violence, although these people seem to be very low in number and don't constitute major threats to China's state security.

2009 January 6, Edward Wong, quoting Nicholas Bequelin, “Arrests Increased in Chinese Region”, in New York Times:

(politics) Opposed to or combating a particular state or government


WEP

(military) Initialism of war emergency power.


pizzled

On his shield was a lion rampant sable, pizzled azure.

(heraldry) Having the penis in a different tincture than the rest of the body.


frontbencher

frontbenchers (plural)
front bencher (alternative)
front-bencher (alternative)

Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.

2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:

Cleverly did not directly respond to the claim from the Labour frontbencher when he later answered her questions.

2023 November 15, Rajeev Syal, Peter Walker, Rowena Mason, Ben Quinn, “Rishi Sunak to bring in emergency law after supreme court’s Rwanda ruling”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament

(politics) A Member of Parliament who sits on the front bench, and is typically part of the cabinet.


pur et dur

From the French pur et dur (“hard-line”, literally “pure and hard”).

bor

Among separatists, Parizeau was known as pur et dur, hard-line and uncompromising.

2011, Robert Bothwell, Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories: Revised Edition, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 256:

(Canadian politics) Being a hardliner of the Quebec independence movement.


electoral fraud

The taking such measures, in order to secure their fair right of voting to the electors in a particular interest, must be considered rather as an act of official favouritism, than as an electoral fraud.

1839, Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham:

He has saddled the finances of the Principality with the costs of a huge electoral fraud.

1882, M. Valentine Chirol, “Bulgaria”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 36, page 293:

In addition to the strength of the Social Democratic candidates, I also examined the relationship between other political factors and the incidence of electoral fraud.

2015, Isabela Mares, From Open Secrets to Secret Voting:

(politics) Illegal interference with the process of an election, especially with the intent to stage a desired election outcome.


obturator

From Latin obtūrō (“to stop, block up”).

(firearms) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.


antipeople

en-adj

antipeople (comparative more antipeople, superlative most antipeople)

more antipeople (comparative)
most antipeople (superlative)

"They said that I had contacted foreign media and called me anti-China, antipeople and antiparty."

2009 January 9, Edward Wong, “Police in China Halt Parents Seeking Investigation Into School Collapses”, in New York Times:

(communism) Opposed to the interests of the people


antigraft

Gabon charged five journalists and antigraft campaigners on Friday with trying to incite rebellion […].

2009 January 10, “Gabon: President’s Critics Charged”, in New York Times, sourced from Reuters:

(politics) Opposed to or working against graft


flowthrough

en-noun

flowthrough (countable and uncountable, plural flowthroughs)

Deverbal from flow through, from flow + through.

(taxation) A legal entity intended to not incur (income) taxation at the entity, but solely at the beneficiaries.


epeeist

(fencing) Somebody who fences with an epee.


little brown fucking machine

little brown fucking machine (plural little brown fucking machines)

little brown fucking machines (plural)
LBFM (alternative initialism)

Mack soon learned that this new bit of colonialist lingo stood for "Little Brown Fucking Machine." It was more convenient to abbreviate […]

And we still have soldiers who call us "a little brown fucking machine fueled by rice.

1996, Mary John Mananzan, J Shannon Clarkson, Letty Russell, Women Resisting Violence: Spirituality for Life:

What about that little brown fucking machine? She's got a nice body, a nice attitude; she takes care of herself. I figured you'd like her.

A Little Brown Fucking Machine is not unsexed by prostituting, she is "just doing what comes naturally."

1999, Kamala Kempadoo, Sun, Sex, and Gold:

After Wes forced the split between Jeri and Captain America, he started dating her and dangling a possible dalliance with the Little Brown Fucking Machine […]

LBFM is Navy speak for Little Brown Fucking Machine. They are the bar girls sailors meet in all the ports in the Orient. The term is generic for bar girls […]

(US, navy, vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Southeast Asian woman regarded as a sex object.


maximalist

en-adj

maximalist (comparative more maximalist, superlative most maximalist)

more maximalist (comparative)
most maximalist (superlative)
Maximalist (alternative)

From maximal + -ist, by analogy with minimalist.

Mr. Schmidt agreed that “both the Russians and the Americans want results,” but he warned that they have a long way to go from “maximalist” starting positions.

1981 November 29, Helmut Schmidt, quotee, “Nuclear Theater”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Jo Leinen, 35 years old, a spokesman for the protest coalition, said today that the Soviet-American arms limitation talks in Geneva are a failure, and blamed the Reagan Administration for having taken “a maximalist position” that doomed the negotiations.

1983 October 14, James M. Markham, “West Germans Start Missile Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Administration diplomats have by now grown used to such maximalist posturing and they doubt that North Korea will go so far as to undermine the nuclear deal.

1995 February 10, “High-Risk Bargaining by North Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

So Britain seems to have two foreign policies, a maximalist one based on illusions of the imperial past, and a minimalist one based on fears of the domestic future. It is time some-one put them together.

1997 October 22, Roy Denman, “British Foreign Policy: Riding Off in Two Directions at Once”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

[…] Truman would not make available the resources and the manpower to fix the problem. He had a maximalist moment—and a maximalist document—before him. He was not ready to back a maximalist policy.

2014, Stephen Sestanovich, Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 49:

White’s detention ratchets up the rising tension between Iran and the US, which under Trump has pursued a maximalist campaign against Tehran that includes pulling out of its nuclear deal with world powers.

2019 January 9, “Iran confirms it has detained US navy veteran Michael White”, in The Guardian:

The Ukrainian government has noted Mr. Putin has never backed away from his maximalist demands, interpreting the goal of “demilitarizing” and “de-Nazifying” Ukraine as halting Western military assistance and installing a pro-Russian government in Kyiv.

2024 February 9, Paul Sonne, Anton Troianovski, “Putin to U.S.: Let’s Make a Deal on Ukraine (on My Terms)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics, diplomacy) Aggressive, expansive.

His inclusion in the official delegation to Moscow caused surprise today and was seen as indicative of the Italian Communists' aversion to Maximalist currents in international communism.

1961 October 4, Paul Hofmann, “Communists in West Expected to Back Khrushchev Against Soviet and Chinese Left-Wing Extremists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical, communism) Relating to far-left communism.


maximalist

maximalists (plural)
Maximalist (alternative)

But on the larger issues, the range of opinion on the best solution runs the gamut from the so‐called hawks, or “maximalists,” as they have come to be known, and the doves, or “minimalists.” The first group would have Israel keep most of the Arab territory she now occupies, and would postpone any significant action on the Palestinian claims until after an over‐all peace agreement was reached with the Arab states.

1972 September 17, Terence Smith, “The World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The policy, however, will collapse unless it produces results. If the region reverts to another stalemate of “no‐peace, no‐war,” the very cause of the October conflagration, then the initiative will pass to the Arab “maximalists,” the Iraqis, the extremist Palestinians, Colonel Qaddafi.

1974 March 31, Edward R. F. Sheehan, “He Likes to Be Liked, and Still Have His Way”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

But now it is clear that there is no common language with the maximalists directed by Syria, and Mr. Arafat has decided to decide.

1984 January 4, Amnon Kapeliouk, “Arafat the Diplomat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics) A supporter of an aggressive or expansive foreign policy.

After a firm opening and an hour of fairly well sustained strength the stock market once more suffered a wide break yesterday following the receipt of the news of the overthrow of Kerensky and the announced intention of the Maximalists to propose an immediate peace with Germany.

1917 November 9, “Russian News Brings About Another Collapse—Evidenceof Banking Support”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Mr. Bernstein, who spent three months in Petrograd after the Revolution and had seen the Maximalists at work, said their aim was to bring about utter destruction not only of the freedom of the Jews, but also the freedom of all Russia.

1917 November 19, “Jews Against Bolsheviki”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical, communism, obsolete, capitalized) A Bolshevik.


machine-gunner

(military) Someone who uses a machine gun.


canteen cup

My tin canteen cup was too hot to touch. I held it in gloved hands, blowing steam from the coffee and watching the sun rise over the fields beyond the fence.

2005, Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 343:

(military, camping) A metal cup which can be nested on the top or under a canteen.


ABSD

(military, dated) Initialism of advanced base sectional dock.


AFDB

(US, military, dated) Initialism of auxiliary floating drydock barge.


Obamamania

Obamania (alternative)
Obama-mania (alternative)
Obama mania (alternative)

Obamamania sweeps the nation as millions of voters find themselves deeply impressed by Obama's views, and the fact that he was on Oprah.

2007, Dave Barry, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 197:

(US politics, neologism) Fervent admiration of Barack Obama.


Trudeaumania

Trudeau-mania (alternative)
Trudeau mania (alternative)

Conservatives deny that what they refer to as Trudeaumania has scared candidates from their ranks.

1968 May 4, Sally Barnes, “Trudeaumania a bonanza for Metro Liberals”, in Toronto Daily Star, Toronto, page 13:

Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada's own distinctive revolution in democratic political style; the swinger, the all-round athlete: Trudeaumania as overture to the Just Society.

1971, "Canada '72—dull and grey, but still very real" (editorial), Globe and Mail (Toronto), 1 Jul, p. 7

During the 1968–69 school year, remembered for its anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and Trudeaumania, Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae shared a cheap apartment.

2006 April 17, John Geddes, “Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae are pals. Really.”, in Macleans, Canada, retrieved 2009-01-20:

But Wright takes a rather contrarian position about the impact of emotionally charged Trudeaumania on PET’s astonishing political rise in 1968.

2016 November 20, “New books put Trudeaumania in fresh perspective”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2017-08-07:

(Canadian politics) Fervent admiration of Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000), Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984, especially during his 1968 election campaign and his early years in office.

Nearly eight years ago, Trudeau was swept into Canada’s highest office on a wave of “Trudeaumania,” a fresh-faced leader who championed the idea that a more progressive, diverse, and open Canada would make the country stronger and elevate its global standing.

2023 August 10, Norimitsu Onishi, “After separation, Trudeau searches for a new image: With marriage broken, he faces skeptical voters”, in The Boston Globe, volume 304, number 41, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A6, columns 2–3:

Trudeaumania, in all its selfie and handshake glory, was on full display in the city, with the crowd growing as word got out across Canada’s largest Bavarian festival that the prime minister had arrived.

2023 October 7, Robert Williams, “Keg is tapped, Oktoberfest is on: Trudeau makes surprise visit to Kitchener festival”, in Waterloo Region Record, Kitchener, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A1, column 1:

It quickly became clear PACE has been provoked by a number issue related to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s agenda. Phimester and Main argue Sohi’s city council is essentially an agent for this agenda and they want to reverse Trudeaumania here. “It’s so ideological,” Main said of council. “It’s trying to be pure and virtue-signally and making sure that Trudeau and Singh are happy with what they’re doing. It’s just nuts.”

2024 August 28, David Staples, “Seething anger suggests change is coming”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A4, column 1:

(Canadian politics) Fervent admiration of Justin Trudeau (born 1971), Prime Minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025.


midnight regulation

en-noun

midnight regulation (plural midnight regulations)

(US politics) A law introduced by an outgoing administration in the period between the election and inauguration of the new president.


antirocket

Some 200 were killed instantly, shocking Hamas and indeed all of Gaza, especially because Israel’s antirocket attacks in previous years had been more measured.

2009 January 19, Ethan Bronner, “Parsing Gains of Gaza War”, in New York Times:

(military) Designed to prevent, or counterattack against, rocket fire

antyrakietowy

designed to prevent, or counterattack against, rocket fire


liberalish

en-adj

liberalish (comparative more liberalish, superlative most liberalish)

more liberalish (comparative)
most liberalish (superlative)

“Fox is in a much better position with a liberalish Democrat in the White House than they were with a Republican,” said Eric Alterman, the media columnist for The Nation magazine.

2009 January 19, Brian Stelter, “Fox News Primes Itself for a Shift”, in New York Times:


antismuggling

Israel’s foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the antismuggling effort with European officials.

2009 January 23, Isabel Kershner, “Hamas to Start Paying Gaza Residents Compensation and Reconstruction Aid”, in New York Times:

(law enforcement) Acting to combat or prevent smuggling


proindustrial

The NNF study, prepared by the proindustrial University of Illinois' Center for Urban Economic Development (CUED)[…], found that within a two-mile radius of the plant there was a close match between purchasing power and retail sales.

1988 January 8, Grant Pick, “A Plant Dies in Cragin”, in Chicago Reader:


antilife

antilife (comparative more antilife, superlative most antilife)

more antilife (comparative)
most antilife (superlative)
anti-life (alternative)


neocolonial

neocolonial (comparative more neocolonial, superlative most neocolonial)

more neocolonial (comparative)
most neocolonial (superlative)

One of the things that was a sin of ours, and the neocolonial arrangement we tried to produce, was that we had all the answers and they had none.

1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader:

This is a racist, neocolonial construct.

2009 January 18, Haroon Siddiqui, “Obama cannot walk on water but he can disperse dark clouds”, in Toronto Star:

(geopolitics) Of or pertaining to, or based on, neocolonialism

neocolonial

of or pertaining to, or based on, neocolonialism


antimilitarist

antimilitarist (comparative more antimilitarist, superlative most antimilitarist)

more antimilitarist (comparative)
most antimilitarist (superlative)

[…] Iowa Democrats tend to be more liberal and antimilitarist than downstate Illinois Democrats.

1988 February 5, David Moberg, “Jackson and Simon in Iowa”, in Chicago Reader:


snarge

Arriving mostly in sealed plastic bags, these included birds’ feet, whole feathers or tiny bits of down, and pulverized bird guts, known as snarge.

2009 January 25, Matthew L. Wald, “Identifying the Bird After a Strike, When Not Much Bird Is Left”, in New York Times:

Snarge can be a wad of a Canada goose lodged inside an airplane engine. Or it can be a broken and burned gull feather littered along the runway. Snarge can even be as small as a rusty-red smear on the nose of an airliner. But no matter what form it takes, every bit of snarge is different — and all snarge is important.

2022 April 14, Jason Bittel, “‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-04-14:

(military, aviation, slang) The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine.


microtargeting

Microtargeting involves obtaining an extensive amount of information—much more than was possible before the use of high-speed computers and relatively cheap databases—about potential groups of voters. The leading Republican microtargeting firm is called TargetPoint Consulting, Inc.

2008, Barbara Bardes, Mack Shelley, Steffen Schmidt, American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials 2008, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 198:

Against these macro forces that structure presidential and congressional campaigns (among other races), campaign managers must find the best tools and make the best use of data to target their core voters with campaign messages. Nowadays, campaign managers are debating the impact of microtargeting and various other targeting tools. Some managers argue that technological advances empower them to send specific and highly personalized messages to particular segments of the electorate in more efficient ways than ever.

2016, William J. Feltus, Kenneth M. Goldstein, Matthew Dallek, Inside Campaigns: Elections through the Eyes of Political Professionals, CQ Press, →ISBN:

The increased prevalence and importance of data-driven microtargeting have had consequences for the character of Canadian political parties and the party system. In this era of electoral-professional parties, data-driven microtargeting, strategic political communication, and message control now dominate to the point that they determine even the most mundane of party activities (Flanagan 2014).

2017, Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, Anna Lennox Esselment, Permanent Campaigning in Canada, Vancouver: UBC Press, →ISBN, page 61:

Microtargeting has also enabled advertisers to discriminate in ways that are hard for regulators to catch.

2023 April 6, Julia Angwin, “If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics, marketing) The targeting of small, specific demographics on a person-by-person basis.


antistimulus

antistimulus (comparative more antistimulus, superlative most antistimulus)

more antistimulus (comparative)
most antistimulus (superlative)

These are only some of the fundamentally fraudulent antistimulus arguments out there.

2009 January 26, Paul Krugman, “Bad Faith Economics”, in New York Times:

(economics, politics) Against stimulus; against major governmental influence in an economy.


antiviolence

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And one-quarter of teenagers in relationships say they have been called names or harassed by their partner through cellphones and text messages, according to a study commissioned by the clothing company Liz Claiborne, which sponsors antiviolence programs.

2009 January 27, Stephanie Clifford, “Teaching Teenagers About Harassment”, in New York Times:

(law enforcement, sociology) Acting against or opposing violence.


hot extraction

(slang, military) The extraction of military forces by longer-range vehicles (helicopter, boat, armoured personnel carrier) whilst under fire from enemy forces.


RD

en-noun

RD (countable and uncountable, plural RDs)

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of reporting district.


MPD

Manila Police District
w:Manila Police District

(Philippines) Initialism of Manila Police District.

Five current and former employees of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, have filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia, alleging that MPD management created a hostile work environment and retaliated against them for speaking out.

2022 February 19, Maya Brown, “Fourth lawsuit makes 20 employees alleging a toxic culture within the DC police department”, in CNN:

Police Department
police department#English

Initialism of Metropolitan Police Department.

“The number of reported violent crimes, like assaults, robberies and homicides are up compared to 2019, according to MPD crime data.

2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN:

Minneapolis Police Department
w:Minneapolis Police Department

Initialism of Minneapolis Police Department.


MPD

MPD (countable and uncountable, plural MPDs)

(physics, engineering, space science, astronautics) Initialism of magnetoplasmadynamics.

motive power depot
motive power depot#English

(rail transport, countable) Initialism of motive power depot.

(aviation, travel industry) Initialism of multi-purpose document.

The WSO station had four multipurpose displays, MPDs, including a moving map that could show a TSD—tactical situation display.

2013, David Lyons, Blood Game: A Jock Boucher Thriller, New York, N.Y. […]: Emily Bestler Books, →ISBN, pages 8–9:

(aviation) Initialism of multi-purpose display.

(pathology) Initialism of myeloproliferative disease.

mammary Paget's disease
mammary Paget's disease#English

mammary Paget disease
mammary Paget disease#English

(medicine) Initialism of mammary Paget's disease / mammary Paget disease.

multiple personality disorder
multiple personality disorder#English

(psychology, dated) Initialism of multiple personality disorder.


MPD

(physics, engineering, space science, astronautics) Initialism of magnetoplasmadynamic.

MPD thruster — magnetoplasmadymanic thruster


Golden Week

(Asian holidays): Borrowed from Japanese ゴールデンウィーク (Gōruden Wīku), equivalent to golden + week.

(US politics, colloquial) A period of early voting time during Ohio's election season in which citizens can register to vote and cast an absentee ballot on the same day.


antigun

en-adj

antigun (comparative more antigun, superlative most antigun)

more antigun (comparative)
most antigun (superlative)
anti-gun (alternative)

Carolyn McCarthy, who ran for Congress on an antigun platform […], said she may challenge the “N.R.A. poster child” in 2010.

2009 January 25, Maureen Dowd, “Which Governor Is Wackier?”, in New York Times:

(politics) Supportive of greater gun control, often including opposition to the idea of gun rights.


step out

en-verb

step out (third-person singular simple present steps out, present participle stepping out, simple past and past participle stepped out)

steps out (present singular third-person)
stepping out (participle present)
stepped out (participle past)
stepped out (past)

[…] they had marched past Poincaré at Peterhof, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich stepping it out on the right flank with his perfect martial bearing and an air of desperate bravery about him, saluting and giving this honored guest eyes right.

1989, H[arry] T[aylor], transl. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translation of original by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, →ISBN, page 225:

(military) To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step.


footsweep

(martial arts) Alternative spelling of foot sweep.


foot sweep

(martial arts) Any of several moves used to trip an opponent by forcefully moving one's legs horizontally at the feet or ankles of one's opponent.


Four 109s were spotted and attacked. After a dogfight, all four had been shot down. Three crashed on the same field.

1998, Middle Tennessee WWII Fighter Pilots Association, Missions Remembered: Recollections of the World War II Air War, page 68:

(dated, informal, military, World War II) The German Messerschmitt 109 fighter aircraft.


galloper

(military) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.


crossbench

(Australian politics, New Zealand politics) The political parties and/or members of a legislature that do not form part of the governing party or coalition, nor the official opposition (the largest party or coalition not in government).


crossbench

en-adj

crossbench (comparative more crossbench, superlative most crossbench)

more crossbench (comparative)
most crossbench (superlative)

(Australian politics, New Zealand politics) Of or pertaining to a legislature's crossbench.

Mary Warnock is a philosopher and crossbench peer.

2009 April 12, Diane Abbott, Donald MacLeod, Mary Warnock, Barbara Gunnell, “What dilemma would you give a five-year-old?”, in The Observer:

Network Rail Chairman Sir Peter Hendy CBE has been nominated for a Crossbench Peerage.

2022 November 2, “Network News: Sir Peter Hendy destined for House of Lords”, in RAIL, number 969, page 21:

(UK politics) Alternative form of cross-bench.


crossbencher

(Australian politics, New Zealand politics) A member of a legislature who belongs to a political party or coalition that is not in government or official opposition (the largest party or coalition not in government), or is independent; a member of the crossbench.

He has just become Lord Hendy, and will take his place in the House of Lords on December 12. He will be a Crossbencher, which means he will not represent a political party.

2022 November 30, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Hendy drops GBR name but reform plans proceed”, in RAIL, number 971, page 12:

(UK politics) Alternative form of cross-bencher.


panda car

/ˌpændə ˈkɑː/

/ˌpændə ˈkɑɹ/

From the original black and white colouring of the automobiles, like that of a giant panda.

(UK, Ireland, law enforcement, informal) A police car; specifically (historical), one with a broad white stripe painted around its middle on a darker-coloured or, originally, black background.


battlewagon

battlewagons (plural)
battle wagon (alternative)
battlewaggon (alternative)
battle waggon (alternative)

A four-wheeled battlewagon recovered from an Early Dynastic IIIA tomb in Kish has axles 90 cm long

2006, Nic Fields with Brian Delf, Bronze Age War Chariots, page 11:

“Individuals or groups of people who have trucks mounted with antiaircraft guns, known as ‘technicals,’ should bring those battlewagons to Mogadishu’s old port,” he said.

2007 January 2, Jeffrey Gettleman, “After 15 Years, Someone’s in Charge in Somalia, if Barely”, in New York Times:

(military) A heavily-armed combat vehicle.

It made no difference that the battlewagon had been commissioned in 1921 and the DE in 1944, or that the battleship's skipper was a regular captain

2000, Edward P. Stafford, Little Ship, Big War: The Saga of DE343, page 281:

A heavily-armed combat vehicle.
A battleship.


break ranks

en-verb

break ranks (third-person singular simple present breaks ranks, present participle breaking ranks, simple past broke ranks, past participle broken ranks)

breaks ranks (present singular third-person)
breaking ranks (participle present)
broke ranks (past)
broken ranks (participle past)
break rank (alternative)

(military) To march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.


antisatellite

The test of an antisatellite weapon last week, which Beijing declined to confirm or deny Friday despite widespread news coverage and diplomatic inquiries, was perceived by East Asia experts as China’s most provocative military action since it testfired missiles off the coast of Taiwan more than a decade ago.

2007 January 20, Joseph Kahn, “China Shows Assertiveness in Weapons Test”, in New York Times:

(military) Intended to destroy or incapacitate a satellite

antissatélite

intended to destroy or incapacitate a satellite


formulary

From Middle French formulaire. By surface analysis, formula + -ary.

Even if beneficiaries want to stay in their current plan, they should still check that the drugs they take are remaining on their plan's formulary and on the same co-pay "tier" as before.

2006 October 3, Vanessa Fuhrmans, “Medicare drug plans: the new choices”, in Pittsburgh Post Gazette, archived from the original on 2006-11-13:

(healthcare) A list of drugs, created by health insurers, hospitals, or prescription drug plans, that defines how costs for any drug are shared between patient and health care provider, typically broken down by tiers such as preferred generics with lowest copay, or preferred brand with higher copay, or non-preferred brand and not covered tiers with the highest cost to the patient.


ASAT

en-noun

ASAT (countable and uncountable, plural ASATs)

(military, space science) Abbreviation of anti-satellite weapon.


downzone

en-verb

downzone (third-person singular simple present downzones, present participle downzoning, simple past and past participle downzoned)

downzones (present singular third-person)
downzoning (participle present)
downzoned (participle past)
downzoned (past)
down-zone (alternative)

"In this case, I don't remember Shaw saying, 'I'm downzoning for this or that reason.' He would say, 'I'm changing the zoning because the community wants it changed.'"

1988 May 6, Ben Joravsky, quoting Danny Davis, “Mystery zoning: What's going down in the Ninth Ward”, in Chicago Reader:

(US, politics) To change an area or property to a less restrictive zoning


Finlandization

From Finland + -ization, translating German Finnlandisierung, referring to the political climate in Finland during the cold war in the view of a 1960s and 1970s West-German debate.

Yet the model surfaced again this week, when President Emmanuel Macron of France was asked by a reporter during his shuttle diplomacy in Moscow whether Finlandization was a possibility for Ukraine. He replied, “Yes, it is one of the options on the table.”

2022 February 9, Jason Horowitz, “Finns Don’t Wish ‘Finlandization’ on Ukraine (or Anyone)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics) The process by which a smaller or less powerful sovereign state comes to abide by a more powerful neighbor's foreign policy rules, while retaining its independence.

фінляндызацыя

the influence of a large state on a smaller one


multipolar

en-adj

multipolar (comparative more multipolar, superlative most multipolar)

more multipolar (comparative)
most multipolar (superlative)
multi-polar (alternative)

The first diagram reveals a multi-polar system, in which a plurality of forces and interests balance each other in precarious equilibrium.

2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 121:

Mr. Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, like to claim that we now live in a multipolar world.

2022 February 23, Madeleine Albright, “Putin Is Making a Historic Mistake”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics) Of or relating to an international system in which a number of states wield most of the cultural, economic, and political influence.


nonheavyweight

De La Hoya’s 17 pay-per-view events — including 1.4 million for his loss to Felix Trinidad in 1999, the most ever for a nonheavyweight bout — have grossed $492 million.

2007 May 3, Richard Sandomir, “All About Money for De La Hoya and Mayweather”, in New York Times:

(boxing) In a weight class other than heavyweight


pressroom

When Robert Shaw--alderman of the Ninth Ward--rises to speak, most of the wise guys in the City Hall pressroom put aside their pencils and just listen.

1988 May 6, Ben Joravsky, “Mystery zoning: What's going down in the Ninth Ward”, in Chicago Reader:

(US, politics) The room in a public building where press conferences are given


sloganeer

From slogan + -eer, US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

As a sloganeer too, he overspent his voice shouting slogans during demonstrations and he eventually lost it.

2012 January 17, Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana, Subaltern Vision, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:

(politics) Someone who makes and spreads slogans.


sloganeer

en-verb

sloganeer (third-person singular simple present sloganeers, present participle sloganeering, simple past and past participle sloganeered)

sloganeers (present singular third-person)
sloganeering (participle present)
sloganeered (participle past)
sloganeered (past)

At such times, the nuanced and expert advice of what they call the rational center — career professionals, scholars, analysts and others working in government and at universities and think tanks — is sidelined or ignored, while emotional sloganeering is amplified by 24/7 cable news and Internet chatter that prize raucous confrontations between fervent avatars of the right and the left.

2007 February 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Silence of the Rational Center”, in New York Times:

(politics) To make and disseminate slogans; often contrasted with substantive debate.


anticapitalism

en-noun

anticapitalism (usually uncountable, plural anticapitalisms)


anticapitalist

anticapitalists (plural)
anti-capitalist (alternative adjective noun)
anticapitalistic (alternative adjective)
anti-capitalistic (alternative adjective)

Most of my rich friends hate anticapitalists.

(politics) One who opposes capitalism or subscribes to anticapitalism.

antikapitalisti

one who opposes capitalism or subscribes to anticapitalism


anticapitalist

en-adj

anticapitalist (comparative more anticapitalist, superlative most anticapitalist)

more anticapitalist (comparative)
most anticapitalist (superlative)
anti-capitalist (alternative adjective noun)
anticapitalistic (alternative adjective)
anti-capitalistic (alternative adjective)

The enthusiasm is not universal. In January, a school board in Missoula County, Mont., decided that screening the video treaded on academic freedom after a parent complained that its message was anticapitalist.

2009 May 11, Leslie Kaufman, “A Cautionary Video About America’s ‘Stuff’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics) Against or opposed to capitalism; characterized by or involving such opposition.


moineau

(fortifications) A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.


armor-piercing

armor piercing (alternative)
armour-piercing (alternative)
armour piercing (alternative)

(military, American spelling, of a device [usually a munition]) Intended to pierce armor.


AAM

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

(military) Initialism of air-to-air missile.


antigang

These changes occurred independent of any antigang program (CIN is the first of its kind in Chicago) and bore no relation to the number of officers in the Chicago Police Department's Gang Crimes Unit.

1988 March 4, Dan Cohen, “Our Gang”, in Chicago Reader:

(law enforcement) Intended to combat or reduce the activity of criminal gangs

antigangue

intended to combat or reduce the activity of criminal gangs


intraparty

In Israel, intraparty rivalries also intensified, with former Prime Minister Ehud Barak announcing that he would run for the chairmanship of the Labor Party, challenging the current leader and defense minister, Amir Peretz, in primaries on May 24.

2007 January 8, Steven Erlanger, “Abbas Tells Party He’ll Proceed With Elections”, in New York Times:

The former president has positioned himself as an impartial elder statesman above intraparty machinations and was neutral during the 2020 Democratic primaries.

2024 July 22, Glenn Thrush, “Why Obama Hasn’t Endorsed Harris”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The quiet criticism, on phone calls, in group chats and during morose team meetings, was a behind-the-scenes preview of the intraparty battle to come, with Democrats quickly falling into the ideological rifts that have defined their party for much of the Trump era.

2024 November 7, Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Nehamas, “Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(politics) Occurring within a political party.


antinarcotics

Since 1993, the United States has twice helped set up special antinarcotics forces here, only to watch their commanders become embroiled in the drug trade themselves.

2007 March 5, James C. Mckinley Jr., “In Guatemala, Officers’ Killings Echo Dirty War”, in New York Times:

(law enforcement) Intended to combat narcotics trade or production


Labourite

(UK politics) a member or supporter of the British Labour Party, the left wing party of Great Britain


antidevelopment

The problematic notion in all of this is that of antidevelopment forces working in concert.

1988 September 16, Michael Miner, “"Politics of Poverty": Why Did John McCarron Do That?”, in Chicago Reader:

(politics) Opposed to development, particularly the development of neighborhoods or land


countercharge

en-verb

countercharge (third-person singular simple present countercharges, present participle countercharging, simple past and past participle countercharged)

countercharges (present singular third-person)
countercharging (participle present)
countercharged (participle past)
countercharged (past)

(heraldry) To reverse the colors; to make counterchanged.


bolter

trap

antonym(s) of “missed landing on an aircraft carrier”

The bolters from the Republican convention say, in their manifesto: "Discontent and distress prevail to an extent never before known in the history of the country."

2007, William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man and Other Essays, page 149:

(US, politics) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.

(military, aviation) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.


bolter

bolter (third-person singular simple present bolters, present participle boltering, simple past and past participle boltered)

bolters (present singular third-person)
boltering (participle present)
boltered (participle past)
boltered (past)

trap

antonym(s) of “miss a landing on an aircraft carrier”

Commander Kleemann came back and boltered again on his second attempt. lt is unheard of for him to bolter twice in a row. Then on his third attempt he got aboard with an OK three-wire trap.

1982, Bert Kinzey, F-14 A & B Tomcat: in detail & scale, page 46:

In the Diamondback's ready room, a tailhook bolt hangs by a string from the ceiling over one pilot's seat; he was the last to "bolter" that day, meaning he missed the wires while landing and had to make another pass.

1994, U.S. News & World Report - Volume 116, Issues 1-8, page 163:

Tomcat 209 had one engine out, and if his tailhook failed to engage an arrestor wire, he wouldn't have the power necessary to complete a touch-and-go and would bolter off the forward end of the flight deck again.

1994, Keith Douglass, Countdown, page 298:

The majority had bet I'd come down on the 2 wire, or, worse yet, knowing I did not want to bolter, the 1 wire.

(military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.


ministership

en-noun

ministership (countable and uncountable, plural ministerships)

(government) The position held by a minister


antitax

“Homeownership,” says John H. Mollenkopf, executive director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York Graduate Center, “is the strongest predictor of being likely to turn out in local politics and being a bit more conservative and antitax in your general outlook.”

2007 May 27, Sam Roberts, “In a City Known for Its Renters, a Record Number Now Own Their Homes”, in New York Times:

(politics) Acting against or opposed to taxes.


sidelock

sidelocks (plural)
side-lock (alternative)

(firearms) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.


deconflict

en-verb

deconflict (third-person singular simple present deconflicts, present participle deconflicting, simple past and past participle deconflicted)

deconflicts (present singular third-person)
deconflicting (participle present)
deconflicted (participle past)
deconflicted (past)

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(military, aviation) To change the flight path of a craft or weapon to reduce the chance of an accidental collision or conflict with other obstacles, the terrain or weather.

(military) To provide information to a military force in order to prevent escalation of a conflict.


hobit

(military, historical) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.


noncandidate

On the other hand, Bradley the noncandidate is now willing to recognize as a “potential approach” to the health care crisis what he calls Medicare for All — that is, socialized medicine.

2007 April 29, Timothy Noah, “Notes From an Ex-Senator”, in New York Times:

(politics) Someone who is not an official candidate for an office.


selectwoman

“She buys up everything that’s in her view,” said Ruth Epstein, the first selectwoman of Kent.

2007 May 18, Eric Konigsberg, “The Reclusive Rich Neighbor and Her Report of Intruders”, in New York Times:


antimonarchicalness

(politics) The state or quality of being antimonarchical.


leftish

en-adj

leftish (comparative more leftish, superlative most leftish)

more leftish (comparative)
most leftish (superlative)
Leftish (alternative)

(politics) Leaning towards the political left.


HMA

(dated, aviation, military) Initialism of His Majesty's Airship (ship prefix for very early military airships of the United Kingdom).


particularism

en-noun

particularism (countable and uncountable, plural particularisms)

From particular + -ism, after French particularisme.

Despite the dominance of Castile and the stream of centralizing measures flowing from the new capital in Madrid, Aragonese particularism continued to make itself felt right up to the early eighteenth century.

2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 221:

(politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation, etc., may act independently of a central authority.


superwelterweight

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. had just defeated Oscar De La Hoya in their superwelterweight title bout in a split decision Saturday night when a controversy threatened to delay, if not upend, his victory.

2007 May 6, Richard Sandomir, “Mayweather Wins Decision Over De La Hoya”, in New York Times:

(boxing) Pertaining to a weight class between 67.7 and 69.9 kilograms, at the boundary between middleweight and welterweight


speakership

speakerships (plural)
Speakership (alternative)

Under the political bargain struck among Iraq’s religious and ethnic groups, the Sunni Arabs hold three leadership positions: one vice presidential slot, one deputy prime minister slot and the speakership.

2007 June 12, Alissa J. Rubin, “Iraqi Parliament Votes to Oust Speaker Who Intimidated Members”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-26:

Washington loves a death watch, which is what McCarthy’s speakership provided from its first wee hours.

2023 October 5, Mark Leibovich, “Kevin McCarthy Got What He Wanted”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-07:

(politics) The position or tenure of the speaker of a legislative body.


SSRN

(US, military, nautical, obsolete) Sub Surface Radar Nuclear - a nuclear-powered radar picket submarine


cross flory

crosses flory (plural)
cross fleury (alternative)

(heraldry) A cross with the ends of the arms flory, having a shape like a fleur-de-lis (⚜).


cross crosslet

cross crosslet (plural crosses crosslet)

(heraldry) A cross with the ends of each arm crossed.


WDC

woman detective constable
woman detective constable#English

(UK, law enforcement, historical) Initialism of woman detective constable, a former police rank.


stealth fighter

stealth fighter (plural stealth fighters)

(military, aviation) A fighter aircraft with a smaller-than-usual radar signature because of its unique body shape, outer coating, and thermal dissipation.

隱形戰機 /隐形战机

military aircraft that is invisible to radar


battle fatigues

(military) military fatigues worn in battle, a form of battle dress


combat fatigues

(military) military fatigues worn in combat, a form of battle dress


in the air

The army had its wing in the air.

(military) Unsupported and liable to be turned or taken in flank.


anticolonialism

(politics) The movement that opposes colonialism.


GTS

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

w:Professional wrestling strikes#Go 2 Sleep

(professional wrestling) Initialism of Go 2 Sleep.


backload

en-verb

backload (third-person singular simple present backloads, present participle backloading, simple past and past participle backloaded)

backloads (present singular third-person)
backloading (participle present)
backloaded (participle past)
backloaded (past)

Not only will repair and recovery be vital, but also the backloading of equipment casualties to farther rearward, better protected, and more specialized maintenance facilities.

1993, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, International Military and Defense Encyclopedia: M-O, page 1601:

(transitive, military) To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.


postpartisan

en-adj

postpartisan (comparative more postpartisan, superlative most postpartisan)

more postpartisan (comparative)
most postpartisan (superlative)
post-partisan (alternative)

Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi[…].

1995 September 18, Michael Handy, “Ich Bin Ein Magazine Editor”, in Time, archived from the original on 2010-10-30:

If nurtured and used creatively, they can be the lever by which Obama transforms the landscape of government and creates a broad postpartisan coalition.

2009 February 6, David Brooks, “The Gang System”, in New York Times:

(US politics) Moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides


FAE

fuel-air explosive
fuel-air explosive#English

(military) Initialism of fuel-air explosive (“thermobaric weapon”).


pitched battle

Have I not in a pitched battle heard / Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

That barbarian warriors, led by barbarian chiefs, should win a pitched battle against Greek valor guided by Greek science, seemed as incredible as it would now seem that the Burmese or the Siamese should, in the open plain, put to flight an equal number of the best English troops.

1834–1838 (date written), Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The Prophecy of Capys”, in Lays of Ancient Rome, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 170:

In pitched battle the Romans knew that they were unlikely to experience a reverse (Tac. Ann. I.68); when it came, defeat by a foreign enemy was rarely in pitched battle, but was usually as a result of an attack or ambush on an army on the march.

2007, Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, Michael Whitby, editors, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

In an earlier phase of the war, Ukraine’s leadership had been more equivocal about pitched battles like Bakhmut.

2023 January 9, Andrew E. Kramer, Nicole Tung, “Without Hesitation, Ukraine Goes Toe to Toe With Russia in Bakhmut”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(military) A battle which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; a sustained, intense and confrontational fight.


waterbomber

waterbombers (plural)
water-bomber (alternative)
water bomber (alternative)

Near-synonyms: air tanker, airtanker, AT (broadly synonymous)

Some 50 firefighters, 10 tankers and waterbombers battled the grass and scrub blaze, which began about 12.30pm.

2009 February 28, Anthony Dowsley, Jane Metlikovec, “Relief for Victorians as weather fails to hit extremes”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-02-28:

(firefighting, aviation) An aircraft that engages in waterbombing, usually in the course of fighting a wildfire.


French leave

From French (adjective) + leave (noun), apparently from a French custom, already recorded in the 18th century, of leaving from receptions or other events without formally announcing one’s departure to the host or hostess. Compare Spanish irse a la francesa and Portuguese sair à francesa (“go in the French manner”) but also the otherwise ubiquitous attribution of this behaviour to the English as with French filer à l’anglaise (“leave in the English manner”), Italian filarsela all'inglese, Polish wyjść po angielsku, etc.

cog

he may have felt a particular need to mitigate the responsibility of those who shirked their duty, for as he wrote that letter he had just returned from French leave himself.

2010, William Marvel, The Great Task Remaining: The Third Year of Lincoln’s War, page 10:

absence without leave
absence without leave

(specifically, chiefly military, euphemistic) Desertion or temporary absence from duty or service without permission; absence without leave, AWOL.


major party

(politics, government) A political party with a strong or dominant influence in a country's politics.


CASEVAC

en-noun

CASEVAC (countable and uncountable, plural CASEVACs)

Blend of casualty + evacuation; compare MEDEVAC.

2001, Kent B. Pandolf, R. E. Burr, Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments, Volume 2, Office of the Surgeon General (US), page 1156,
Rehearsal of representative CASEVACs is invaluable in refining both operating techniques with the CASEVAC assets and coordination with the receiving MTF.

2011, Robby Carpenter, Shawn Carpenter, Ramiro Bujeiro, Force on Force: Modern Wargaming Rules, Ambush Alley Games, Osprey Publishing, page 53,
If a force has CASEVAC assets available (medevac choppers, ambulances, an on-table aid station, etc.), then a unit may hand off its Casualties (and the associated penalties) by moving into contact with the CASEVAC asset.

(military) The emergency patient evacuation of injured people (civilians or soldiers) from a combat zone.


CASEVAC

en-verb

CASEVAC (third-person singular simple present CASEVACs, present participle CASEVACing, simple past and past participle CASEVAC'd)

CASEVACs (present singular third-person)
CASEVACing (participle present)
CASEVAC'd (participle past)
CASEVAC'd (past)
casevac (alternative)

Sadly, two days later we are back at the hospital again, initially to casevac a patient down to a fixed wing aircraft at the airfield. […] It has been decided to casevac him to Andrew Fleming hospital in Salisbury.

2018, Mike Borlace, Spider Zero Seven, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 123:

(transitive, military) To perform the emergency evacuation of (an injured person) from a combat zone.


Liebercrat

Blend of Lieberman + Democrat, from Joseph Lieberman, a US Senator from Connecticut who left the Democratic Party after being defeated in the party primary in 2006.

JMS, you really need to figure out who you support. I seem to recall you giving a thumbs-up to McCain, but you now seem to come across as a Liebercrat - a decent person who has been corrupted by Clinton/Gore.

2000 December 18, Sean Ormond, “Re: OK, I'm expecting an announcement about the formation of”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (Usenet):

As result, Mr. Lambert is being called a "Liebercrat" after Sen. Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut, who won re-election as an independent after losing in the 2006 Democratic primary to Ned Lamont.

2007 March 21, Seth McLaughlin, “Virginia Democrat faces blog ire for Allen support”, in Washington Times, archived from the original on 2010-07-02:

The protesters referred to Amann as an "arrogant Liebercrat," noting that he voted against civil unions and calling him a DINO, a "Democrat in name only."

2008 January 31, Frank Juliano, “Amann officially wants to be governor”, in Connecticut Post, archived from the original on 2016-03-07:

(US politics slang) A Democrat whose politics resemble those of Joseph Lieberman; in recent use, often specifically a Democrat who acts like a Republican


antitotalitarian

“He’s motivated by an antitotalitarian drive, whether he sees injustice from the left or the right.

2007 May 19, Elaine Sciolino, “Sarkozy’s Top Diplomat: Undiplomatic Opposite”, in New York Times:

(politics) Opposed to or acting against totalitarianism or totalitarian behavior.

antitotalitaire

opposed to or acting against totalitarianism or totalitarian behavior


antitotalitarian

(politics) An opponent of totalitarianism.


squirter

Who made the decision to send an IRF after a group of squirters?

2014, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Afghanistan: Honoring the Heroes of Extortion 17: Hearing..., page 76:

It was Charlie's job to head off the squirters to the north. He signaled his Afghans to follow and led them down the side of the hill.

(military slang) A person, presumed to be hostile, who absconds upon the approach of (Western) soldiers.


PIO

en-noun

PIO (countable and uncountable, plural PIOs)

public information officer
public information officer#English

(government) Initialism of public information officer.


malestream

en-adj

malestream (comparative more malestream, superlative most malestream)

more malestream (comparative)
most malestream (superlative)

(feminism) Mainstream and usual, from the point of view of the man, though actually biased towards men.


battlespace

en-noun

battlespace (countable and uncountable, plural battlespaces)

The battlespace labs will determine the best ways for armored and infantry forces to take advantage of time, distance, and space on battlefields.

In the physical sense, battlespace is that volume determined by the maximum capabilities of a unit to acquire and engage the enemy–capabilities which will be greatly expanded by future technology.

1994, Military Review, volume 74, number 11, Command and General Staff School, page 22:

These elements are now called battlespaces to incorporate the fourth element of information warfare. In essence, cyberspace is formally recognized as permeating all DoD battlespaces.

2002, Paul M. Maniscalco, Understanding Terrorism and Managing the Consequences, page 188:

(military) The conditions and dimensions of battle, including terrain, weather, infrastructure, airspace, seaspace, cyberspace, near space, and outer space, considered in a unified military strategy to integrate and combine armed forces for the military theatre of operations.


noncampaign

Former Senator Fred D. Thompson has yet to make a formal declaration that he is running for president, but already his noncampaign campaign has gone through its first shake-up.

2007 July 28, Susan Saulny, “Thompson’s Race Hasn’t Quite Begun, but Turmoil Has”, in New York Times:

(chiefly politics) Not a campaign, or not related to a campaign


Jody call

After Jody, a recurring character in some traditional cadence calls.

No matter how tired they became, once someone in the ranks began a Jody call, the whole platoon would pick it up and everyone seemed to march a little taller.

1990, Dwight A. Beck, Army Green: A Way of Life: The Enlisted Years:

(US, military, slang) A cadence or cadence call, a traditional call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while running or marching.


coupure

It will be observed here, that the coupure is not cut through the scarp revetment of the face of the bastion, although it is necessary for it to go through the thickness of the parapet

1860, John Thomas Hyde, Elementary Principles of Fortification:

(fortification) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.


counterpuncher

(boxing) A boxer who commonly counterpunches.


superlobbyist

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It sat by mutely while Jack Abramoff, the superlobbyist, spun schemes that eroded public trust, until prosecutors had to move in.

2008 February 22, “Now a Reminder From Mr. Cunningham”, in New York Times:

(politics) An extremely skilled or powerful lobbyist


superheavyweight

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(boxing) Of or pertaining to the weight class for boxers exceeding 91 kilograms in body weight.


laborite

laborites (plural)
Laborite (alternative)
labourite (alternative)

(politics) a supporter of a labor movement

The two Farmer Laborites, Shipstead and Johnson of Minnesota, did not attend, as they had contemplated doing, for fear such action might be misinterpreted in Minnesota.

1923 December 10, “Caucuses”, in TIME, archived from the original on 2008-12-22:

(politics) a member of a political party supporting labor


Wallmapuwen

(politics) A Mapuche nationalist political party in Chile.


scattergun

scatterguns (plural)
scatter gun (alternative)
scatter-gun (alternative)

But in all-around use, the scattergun now ranks first across fields and forests, trap and skeet ranges.

1973 September, Gary Gillespie, “How to select a modern scattergun”, in Popular Mechanics, →ISSN, page 134:

Groundhitching the horse, he left the Winchester in the saddle boot and reached under his duster to unsling the scattergun.

1999 December 1, Jason Manning, Gun Justice: The Unforgettable Story of Texas John Slaughter, One of the Greatest Gunfighters of the Old West, Macmillan:

You ever have a staring contest with a fish? No eyelids. Kinda pointless, right? Like you reaching for that scattergun.

2013 February 21, “Relevance”, in Person of Interest, season 2, episode 16, spoken by Sam Shaw (Sarah Shahi):

(firearms, informal) Synonym of shotgun.


dovishness

(politics) The condition of being a dove, as opposed to a hawk.


ASDF

“The F-35B can operate from modified runways or make-shift airfields thereby giving Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) more options to operate from smaller, more distant Japanese islands in a pinch. This is quite important for survivability and response if the major airbases are put out of commission in a saturation missile attack,” he said.

2018 November 29, Brad Lendon and Zachary Cohen, “Japan preparing to put US-designed stealth jets on an ‘aircraft carrier’”, in CNN:

(military) Initialism of Air Self-Defense Force: the Japanese air force


cornerman

(boxing) A coach, trainer or other assistant who attends to a boxer between rounds.


NCA

w:w:National Command Authority (United States)

(US politics, obsolete) Initialism of National Command Authority.


carryback

Current theft loss rules typically allow losses to be carried back three years and forward 20 years, but the I.R.S plan will allow carrybacks of as many as five years, generally if the loss is for a small business with gross annual receipts of less than $15 million.

2009 March 18, Lynnley Browning, “I.R.S. Plans a Deduction for Madoff Victims”, in New York Times:

(accounting, taxation) An income tax loss or credit that can be applied to offset previously taxed income or taxes paid, respectively.


corded

CORDED : Bound round with cord, - as, a Bale gules, corded or.

1893, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry: With Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and Deciphering Ancient Mss., Rules for the Appointment of Liveries, &c, page 128:

Sable, two bars argent, corded or wreathed gules - WAYE, Devonshire, confirmed 1574.

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 132:

(heraldry) Wound about with a cord or cords of a specified tincture.


vanguardism

vanguardism (countable and uncountable, plural vanguardisms)

(politics) The strategy whereby an organization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself at the centre of a revolutionary movement and steer it in a direction consistent with its ideology.


herstorical

en-adj

herstorical (comparative more herstorical, superlative most herstorical)

more herstorical (comparative)
most herstorical (superlative)

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The essays discuss the ways in which the struggles against racism and sexism have come together or the times they have worked in isolation. They are well researched and reflect herstorical conditions of America's past, so often left out of history.

1982 December 4, Malkah Barrsey Feldman, “A Legacy of Oppression”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9:

(rare, feminism) Pertaining to herstory.


herstorically

en-adv

herstorically (comparative more herstorically, superlative most herstorically)

more herstorically (comparative)
most herstorically (superlative)

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(rare, feminism) In a herstoric or herstorical way.


Thatcherist

(UK politics) A proponent of Thatcherism.


antivandalism

(law enforcement) Opposing or proscribing vandalism.


carryforward

(accounting, taxation) An income tax loss or credit not usable in the current year that can be applied to offset income or taxes paid, respectively, in subsequent tax years.


go Winchester

en-verb

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

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

We go Winchester before we go target." Winchester was thirty-thirty, the UHF frequency we used in flight school when we were both flying solo

1990, G. C. Hendricks, The second war, page 52:

He had come from another controller, so he only had two Mavericks and [his wingman] had four Mk-82s, so they went Winchester pretty quick.

2007, Steve Call, Danger close: tactical air controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq, page 149:

Nobody had gone Winchester before - Charlotte and Tony had just made British Apache history. Billy sent our ammo requirements to Kev Blundell in Bastion

2009, Ed Macy, Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine, page 321:

(military aviation) To run out of ammunition, requiring a return to base.


mandritta

(fencing) A blow from the right side to the left.


perp walk

From perp + walk. First use appears c. 1980. See cite below.

... as well-dressed masters of the universe did the ritualized perp walk with their expensive Armani suit jackets draped over their handcuffs.

1980, Paul Fussell, Abroad - British Literary Traveling Between the Wars, page 114:

FBI agents gave former WorldCom executives Scott Sullivan and David Myers the same star treatment, parading the handcuffed quarry in an early-morning perp walk and prompting Sullivan's lawyer to complain about “the unfair taint of the current political climate.”

2002 August 12, Daniel Eisenberg et al., “Jail To The Chiefs?”, in Time:

The copter’s arrival at the Wall Street heliport led to an extraordinary scene: [Luigi] Mangione, surrounded by a swarm of gun-toting NYPD officers, in a slow, lengthy “perp walk” from the helicopter into a black van, with cameras catching every step.

2024 December 19, Eric Levenson, Ray Sanchez, “A whirlwind day for Luigi Mangione ends with new charges, revelations from a notebook and transfer to a federal prison”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2024-12-20:

(chiefly US, idiomatic, law enforcement) The intentional public display before news cameras of a person in police custody, especially someone famous or notorious, for the purpose of satisfying public interest, demonstrating the effectiveness of the authorities, or shaming the person.


MEPS

w:United States Military Entrance Processing Command

(US, military) Initialism of Military Entrance Processing Command.


valence issue

(politics) An issue on which most voters and candidates share the same opinion.


Westminster system

en-noun

Westminster system (plural Westminster systems)

Westminster systems (plural)
Westminster parliamentary system (alternative)

(politics) A democratic parliamentary system of government, used by and modelled after the British parliament in Westminster.


(US, taxation) The main form for US individual income tax filing.


(US, taxation) A form reporting one's compensation as an employee during a year at an employer or personal income taxation.


[…] It is going to be up to the taxpayer, if they receive a 1099 in any form for a nontaxable event, such as splitting rent among roommates, splitting a dinner bill, or even selling something on eBay for less than you paid for it, to explain to the IRS that the 1099 was received for a non-taxable transaction,” said Mark Luscombe, principal analyst for tax publisher Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting.

2021 November 9, Jeanne Sahadi, “If you use Venmo, PayPal or other payment apps this tax rule change may affect you”, in CNN:

Absolutely bewildered by the concept of taxes, he’d brought his 1099s to the nearest outpost of a national accounting chain to seek help.

2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(US, taxation) A form reporting one's nonemployment income from a given source for a year.


HEAT

(military) Acronym of high explosive antitank, a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour.


antigas

The company gas officer is responsible through his gas noncommissioned officer for taking over the antigas trench stores[…]

1926, United States. Surgeon-General's Office, The Medical Dept. of the U.S. Army in the World War, page 788:

Nevertheless, it is obvious from the elaborate anti-gas precautions which have been taken by all concerned that little reliance is placed by the Allied Powers upon the assurance of our enemies being observed in all eventualities, and enemy anti-gas precautions may be regarded not improperly as an indication of the recognition that any breach of the Geneva Protocol by a gas attack upon ourselves or our allies would be met by immediate reprisals.

1942 May-June, “War Gas and the Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:

(military) Countering military gas attacks.


auditee

(management, accounting, taxation) One subjected to an audit.


LDF

Lesotho Defence Force
w:Lesotho Defence Force

(Lesotho, military) Initialism of Lesotho Defence Force.


high dependency unit

high dependency unit (plural high dependency units)

(healthcare) An area for patients who require more intensive observation, treatment and nursing care than would be usually provided on a general ward. A standard of care between the general ward and full intensive care.


DSM

distinguished service medal
w:distinguished service medal

(military) Initialism of distinguished service medal.


ECH

Enhanced Combat Helmet
Enhanced Combat Helmet#English

(military, US) Initialism of Enhanced Combat Helmet.


MtF

(chiefly military) Initialism of more to follow.


RCT

RCTs (plural)
R.C.T. (alternative)
R. C. T. (alternative)

(military) Initialism of regiment(al) combat team.


beartrap

beartraps (plural)
bear trap (alternative)

(law enforcement, automotive, traffic) A radar trap used by police to catch speeders.


Queer Street

In any event, the German slugger nailed down 21 of his 39 victories by putting his opponent on Queer Street via the knockout route.

1957 August 10, “Cronin's Corner”, in Los Angeles Times:

Frazier had him on Queer Street in the 11th round. ... He was glad he got off Queer Street.

1971 March 9, “In the Wake of the News”, in Chicago Tribune:


subcabinet

(politics) A political cabinet dealing with one particular topic, and making up part of a larger cabinet.


COP

COP (countable and uncountable, plural COPs)

COP stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph (the Paris agreement in 2015) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009).

2019 December 2, Fiona Harvey, “Climate crisis: what is COP and can it save the world?”, in The Guardian:

COPs have been held in petrostates before. But fossil fuel interests appeared truly unleashed in Baku — potentially emboldened by the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a man who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.

2024 November 25, Laura Paddison, “The UN climate summit ended in bitterness and accusations of betrayal. Now fears are growing for its future”, in CNN:

conference of the parties
conference of the parties#English

(law, politics) Initialism of conference of the parties; also CoP or Cop.

common operational picture
w:common operational picture

(military) Initialism of common operational picture.


polaski

Named for a forester, Edward Pulaski, who designed the tool.

A polaski is a cross between a pick, an^([sic]) standard axe, and a broad axe. It is used to cut through buried roots.

2002, Kent J. Johnson, Garden Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby:

A shovel, a polaski (fire axe) and a gieke can for putting out campfires, disinfectant for cleaning outhouses and picnic tables.

2011, Sid Marty, Leaning on the Wind: Under the Spell of the Great Chinook, page 285:

It was equipped with two water tanks, a pump and one inch rubber hose, plus the normal shovels, polaskis, first aid equipment, and radios.

(firefighting) A fire fighting hand tool consisting of ax or adz head on a wooden handle, used to dig a fireline.


third camp

(politics, sometimes attributive) A socialist ideology, originating in Trotskyism, which aims to support the organised working class, as opposed to capitalism, or another prominent force, originally Stalinism and in the 1990s and 2000s often Islamism.


RIO

You'll pick up your RIO when you get to the ship, and if you don't, give me a call. I'll fly with you.

1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Viper (Tom Skerritt):

radar intercept officer
radar intercept officer#English

(US, military, aviation) Initialism of radar intercept officer.


senior colonel

(military) a military rank for a field officer above that of colonel and below the general ranks or flag ranks


senior captain

(military) a military rank for a field officer above that of captain and below that of major

(military) a military rank for a naval officer above that of captain and below the admiral ranks or flag ranks


commodore admiral

commodore admiral (plural commodore admirals)

(US, military, nautical, historical) a flag officer of a rank between a captain and a rear admiral, having a O7 NATO rank scale equivalency.


CADM

commodore admiral
commodore admiral#English

(US, military, nautical, historical) Abbreviation of commodore admiral.


COMO

(US, military, nautical) Abbreviation of commodore.


fleet captain

(military, nautical) A captain in command of a fleet, convoy, or flotilla.

(military, nautical) The holder of a non-flag naval rank above that of captain and below that of the admiralty ranks, having an O7 NATO rank scale equivalency.


ace of aces

aces of aces (plural)
Ace of Aces (alternative)

Brookline Man Supplants Baylies as the American Ace of Aces if His Record Stands.

the U-boat commander who drowned them was Hitler's subsea ace of aces

Bong Downs 27th Japanese Plane And Becomes U. S. 'Ace Of Aces'

Top ace of aces was Captain Joseph C. McConnell Jr. of Apple Valley, Calif., who posted the unequaled high score for Korea

Yet virtually larger than life in the eyes of his contemporaries, the "scourge of the skies," the "ace of aces,"

The ace of aces was dead.

2001, Roman Johann Jarymowycz, Tank Tactics: From Normandy to Lorraine:

(military) The greatest active flying ace in a nation's military service.


sanctionable

(economics, geopolitics) That can be subjected to economic sanctions.


unsanctionable

(economics, geopolitics) That cannot be subjected to economic sanctions.


CDO

command duty officer
w:command duty officer

(military) Initialism of command duty officer.


full employment

... not at the time recognized that this was a basic departure from the Keynesian view in which both of these full employments were regarded as identical.

1979, James H. Gapinski with Charles Edward Rockwood and Abba Ptachya Lerner, Essays in post-Keynesian inflation, page 272:

(economics, politics) A policy goal state in which all those wanting employment at the prevailing wages can find it.

plein-emploi

a policy goal state in which all those wanting employment at the prevailing wages can find it


personal union

personal union (countable and uncountable, plural personal unions)

In the political sense, calque of German persönliche Vereinigung (attributed to German jurist Johann Stephan Pütter, 1777).

calque

The United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, also known variously as the United Kingdoms, Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905.

Many personal unions were ended by differences in the monarchies' rules of dynastic succession, while disputes thereabout lead to dynastic wars.

The Congo Free State was an independent kingdom in central Africa in personal union with Belgium under King Leopold.

A personal union exists, as in the instance of linked by Great Britain and Hanover from 1714 to 1837, when two states, distinct in every respect, are ruled by the same prince; and they are properly regarded as wholly independent persons who merely happen to employ the same agent for a particular class of purposes, and who are in no way bound by or responsible for each others' acts.

1895, William Edward Hall, A Treatise on International Law, 4th edition, The Clarendon Press, page 26:

Personal unions were scarcely new in British history. From 1066, England had been linked to parts of France under the Norman and then the Plantagenet dynasties. The accession of James VI to the English throne began a personal union that was not extended to a parliamentary union until 1707, while, under William III (1689-1702), the position of the house of Orange in Dutch politics was extended to Britain. Personal unions were also common on the Continent: for the eighteenth century, the list would include those of Poland and Saxony, Sweden and Hesse-Cassel, Russia and Holstein-Gottorp, and Denmark and Oldenburg.

2004, Jeremy Black, The Hanoverians, Hambledon and London, page 22:

(politics, historical) The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared dynastic succession.


mascle

From Middle English mascle, maskel, from Old French mascle, macle, from Medieval Latin mascula, from a Germanic source (compare English mesh). Doublet of mail.

(heraldry) A lozenge with a smaller lozenge-shaped hole in the centre.


IB

(military) Initialism of integrated battlefield.


maskirovka

Borrowed from Russian маскиро́вка (maskiróvka, “camouflage”).

bor+

Surprise is a key ingredient in maskirovka and the clandestine forces which occupied Crimea last February certainly delivered that.

2015 January 29, Lucy Ash, “How Russia outfoxes its enemies”, in BBC:

And the key to informational struggle was maskirovka—subterfuge—the manipulation of the enemy's picture of reality.

2018, Carl Miller, chapter 6, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:

As for Syrski’s remarks, a more likely interpretation is that the general is engaged in some simple misdirection – a version of maskirovka – a Russian military concept that encompasses western notions of operational secrecy with simple deception.

2023 March 25, Dan Sabbagh, “Ukrainian top brass stirs the pot with talk of Bakhmut counterattack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(military, especially regarding Soviet or Russian warfare) A set of procedures designed to confuse, mislead, and camouflage oneself from the enemy.


in detail

Darius defeated the rebels in detail.

Macdonald might easily have destroyed them in detail could he have fallen upon them at once; but the time he spent in reorganising his army in Tuscany, and in concerting measures with Moreau, was well employed by Suvarof in promptly concentrating his forces.

1855, Walter Keating Kelly, The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, Including the Works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Ségur, page 175:

(military) By engaging small sections of an enemy army rather than fighting a single pitched battle against the entire enemy force.


sanctuarize

en-verb

sanctuarize (third-person singular simple present sanctuarizes, present participle sanctuarizing, simple past and past participle sanctuarized)

sanctuarizes (present singular third-person)
sanctuarizing (participle present)
sanctuarized (participle past)
sanctuarized (past)

(military) To use military force to shelter another country from invasion or attack


antitrafficking

(law enforcement) Serving to counter arms or drug trafficking.


retrait

KETHEL in Holland uses, Azure, a pale retrait in chief (i.e., a demi-pal) soutenu by a chevron between three cauldrons or.

1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 121:

The blazon : Arms : Per Saltire Gules and Or in fess two pellets pierced and in pale many plates also pierced on a chief Argent issuant as in chief seven pallets retrait two three and two Sable.

The upper margin is bordered by a low quality frieze bearing the coat of arms of Pope Gregory XV (r. 1621-1623) : gules, three bendlets retrait per fess […]

2010, Elena De Laurentiis, The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo:

(heraldry, rare) Not shown in full, but cut off at point it touches the edge of the shield, an ordinary, etc, as if retreating or withdrawn into that edge, ordinary, etc. (Compare issuant, naissant.)


Totenkopf

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Borrowed from German Totenkopf (literally “dead person's head”).

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The officer who cut off Rachabalizoda’s ear had military patches including a far-right Totenkopf (dead person’s head) previously worn by Nazi SS units.

2024 March 25, Andrew Roth, Pjotr Sauer, “Russia lauding torture was unthinkable – now it is proud to do so”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(military) A death's head used as a military emblem.


pozzy

Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I.

‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’

1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 136:

The Turco used to say: 'Tommy, give Johnny pozzy,' and a tin of plum and apple jam used to be given him.

1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 237:

(British, military slang) Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”).


pozzy

From position + -y (“diminutive suffix”), with spelling shift; variant of possie.

1916, various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book, page 10,
[…] and Jerry O′Dwyer had shot two crows from the new sniper′s pozzy down at the creek-—and so on.

1942, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume III: The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916, 13th(?) Edition, page 340,
Brown himself, unaware even that there was an officer among his captives, picked up his rifle, went back to his “pozzy,” and dismissed the incident from his mind […]

They had also wonderful confidence in their leaders — they knew the best pozzy would be taken up.

1975, William D. Joynt, Saving the Channel Ports, 1918, page 84:

(Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position.


DLC

The DLC also proclaimed its desire to move the Democratic Party closer to Republican positions on questions of social policy and moral traditionalism.

2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 4, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:

Democratic Leadership Council
w:Democratic Leadership Council

(US politics, historical, 1985–2011) Initialism of Democratic Leadership Council.


Bloquiste

(Canadian politics) A member of the Bloc Québécois.


Bloquiste

en-adj

Bloquiste (comparative more Bloquiste, superlative most Bloquiste)

more Bloquiste (comparative)
most Bloquiste (superlative)

(Canadian politics) Pertaining to the Bloc Québécois.


Pequiste

Pequistes (plural)
Pequist (alternative)

Borrowing of French péquiste, from the abbreviation PQ < Parti Québécois + -iste.

(Canadian politics) A member of the Parti Québécois.


Pequiste

Pequiste (comparative more Pequiste, superlative most Pequiste)

more Pequiste (comparative)
most Pequiste (superlative)
Pequist (alternative)

(Canadian politics) Pertaining to the Parti Québécois.


theocon

Theo-cons demonized the emerging health crisis [AIDS] as a "gay plague".

2007 May 21, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba mobilized before first diagnosis”, in Workers World:


matross

From Dutch matroos (“sailor, seaman”), essentially from French matelot (“seaman”), from Middle Dutch mattenoot. Compare German Matrose, Swedish matros, Danish matros, and Crimean Tatar matros.

[T]he matrosses, in their annual gesture of amity, had torn the sky with the largest piece of ordnance in the Great Keep […].

1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter V, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 48:

(military, now historical) An artilleryman next in rank to a gunner; a gunner's mate, especially one who assists the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.


APM

en-noun

APM (countable and uncountable, plural APMs)

anti-personnel mine
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(military, countable) Initialism of anti-personnel mine.


shit bird

(military, vulgar, slang) A person who regularly gets into trouble; a screw-up.


strongpoint

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(military) A fortified position; a stronghold.


heliborne

The Israelis manned their fighting positions, certain they would be facing, at most, a few dozen heliborne commandos.

1987, Jerry Asher, Eric M Hammel, Duel for the Golan:


antinationalist

en-adj

antinationalist (comparative more antinationalist, superlative most antinationalist)

more antinationalist (comparative)
most antinationalist (superlative)

But the antinationalist demonstrations that followed Mr. Dink’s killing also surfaced in places as diverse as Izmir, the Aegean coastal city that is Turkey’s third largest, and in Sanliurfa and Hatay, which are close to Turkey’s eastern border with Syria.

2007 January 23, Susanne Fowler, Sebnem Arsu, “Armenian Editor’s Death Leads to Conciliation”, in New York Times:

Luxemburg's position was antinationalist, not antinationality. She did not reject the value a national language or culture might hold for a particular people.

2007, Michael Forman, Nationalism and the International Labor Movement, page 84:

(politics) Of, pertaining to or supporting antinationalism.


antinationalist

(politics) A supporter of antinationalism.


maunch

maunches (plural)
manche (alternative)
maunche (alternative)

From Middle English maunche, from Old French maunche, one of the variants of manche, from Latin manica. Doublet of manche.


USDA

w:Union Solidarity and Development Association

(Burmese politics) Initialism of Union Solidarity and Development Association (a former political party of Myanmar).


Seabee

Spelling of the initials CB, for construction battalion, with the spelling probably influenced by the words sea (patrolled by the Navy) and bee (a symbol of industriousness).

The Navy is establishing a new Construction Battalion, or Seabee, unit in Charleston, S. C., Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina, said today.

1971 January 20, “Seabee Unit in Charleston”, in The New York Times, page 15:

(US military) A construction battalion of the United States Navy, responsible for building, bulldozing, etc.


antinepotism

The package also includes an antinepotism policy; prohibits nonlegislative employees from using their offices to solicit political contributions; requires that agency heads resign before becoming political candidates; bars elected officials or candidates from appearing in taxpayer-financed ads; and places new restrictions on lobbying by public officials who have left office.

2007 January 25, Danny Hakim, “State Leaders Agree on Plan to Merge 2 Ethics Commissions and Tighten Lobbying Rules”, in New York Times:

(politics, business) Opposing or preventing nepotism.


CCW

(US, firearms) Initialism of concealed carry weapon.


CCW

(US, firearms) Initialism of carrying a concealed weapon.