green door

While this cannot be done in all cases, no commander should accept the notion that whole blocks of intelligence are permanently behind a special “green door” until his intelligence officer has carefully examined the regulations.

1976, Michael T. Chase, “All-Source Intelligence”, in Military Review: Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, volume LVI, number 7, page 45:

The so-called “green door”, behind which intelligence is alleged to hoard its secrets has always been, and forever will be, a problem. […] Arranging for dissemination of a specific, known product is relatively easy—it’s the products you don’t know about that the green door hides.

1995, Douglas H. Dearth, R. Thomas Goodden, Strategic Intelligence: Theory and Application, second edition, page 66-67:

The NSA is the opposite of the NGA in that the controlled serendipity of its collection-management processes is hidden not only from those beyond the “green door” but from many intelligence community insiders as well.

2005, editors Burton Gerber, Jennifer E. Sims, Transforming U.S. Intelligence, page 151:

This information on how the enemy conducted fighter operations came to the Aggressors from many sources behind the “green door” of the US intelligence gathering and interpreting community.

2012, Gaillard R. Peck, Jr, America’s Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG:

(espionage) The barrier between compartmentalized intelligence information and those without access to it, especially military personnel who may need it.


CQBW

(military, weaponry) Abbreviation of close quarters battle weapon.


combat engineer

en-noun

combat engineer (plural combat engineers)

With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.

2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall, page 325:

(military) A soldier employed to carry out engineering tasks in support of land forces during combat operations, facilitating the mobility of friendly forces while impeding that of the enemy.


Dirty Half Hundred

On account of their tattered and soiled appearance during the Peninsular War.

(UK, military, slang, historical) The 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot.


AUKUS

Blend of AU + UK + US; acronym of Australia + United Kingdom + United States of America; coined in 2021.

acronym of

And so, friends, AUKUS is born — a new enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. AUKUS: a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure region that ultimately benefits all.
AUKUS will also enhance our contribution to our growing network of partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region: ANZUS; our ASEAN friends; our bilateral strategic partners, the Quad; Five Eyes countries; and, of course, our dear Pacific family.
The first major initiative of AUKUS will be to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia.

2021 September 15, Scott Morrison, “Remarks by President Biden, Prime Minister Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Johnson of the United Kingdom Announcing the Creation of AUKUS”, in White House, archived from the original on 2021-09-20:

Although Australia, the UK, and US partnership, AUKUS, sounds strange with all these acronyms but it's a good one, AUKUS, our nations will update and enhance our shared ability to take on the threats of the 21st century just as we did in the 20th century: together. Our nations and our brave fighting forces have stood shoulder to shoulder for literally more than one hundred years. Through the trench fighting in World War I, the island hopping of World War II, during the frigid winters of Korea and the scorching heat of the Persian Gulf, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have long been faithful and capable partners, and are even closer today. Today we take another historic step to deepen and formalize cooperation among all three of our nations, because we all recognize the imperative of insuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term.

2021 September 17, Joe Biden, Australia's decades-long balancing act between the US and China is over. It chose Washington, CNN:

On Sept. 15, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia unveiled a new security partnership, with the less-than-euphonious acronym AUKUS. The three states are close allies of long standing, but the headline item in the new arrangement is a joint effort to equip Australia with a fleet of advanced nuclear-powered submarines. U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also announced plans for more extensive cooperation on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.
Those basic facts about AUKUS are pretty straightforward. But why it came together—and what it means—is more complicated and far more revealing about where the world is heading.

2021 September 18, Stephen M. Walt, “The AUKUS Dominoes Are Just Starting to Fall”, in Foreign Policy:

AUKUS envisages a wide range of diplomatic and technological collaboration, from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, but at its core is an agreement to start consultations to help Australia acquire a fleet of nuclear-propelled (though not nuclear-armed) submarines. One consequence of this is Australia cancelling a contract, worth tens of billions of dollars, signed in 2016 with France for diesel-electric submarines. In announcing AUKUS on September 15th with the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, President Joe Biden stressed that it was about “investing in our greatest source of strength—our alliances”.

2021 September 19, “The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting”, in The Economist:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in the US to help announce the landmark AUKUS pact in San Diego this morning.

2023 March 14, “AUKUS deal: Jim Chalmers announces $8 billion HMAS Stirling naval base expansion”, in ABC Premium News (wire feed), Sydney:

(geopolitics, neologism) A security treaty between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; for the construction of nuclear submarines in Australia, and cooperation on cybersecurity and espionage technology; to contain the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific region.


ANZUS

Blend of AUS (“Australia”) + NZ (“New Zealand”) + US (“United States”).

blend

(geopolitics) A security treaty between Australia, New Zealand, and America for the Pacific region; particularly in naval affairs.


pankratist

(martial arts) A competitor in pankration.


crisis response team

en-noun

crisis response team (plural crisis response teams)

(law enforcement) a group of individuals trained to provide trauma mitigation and education in the aftermath of a critical incident


commodity diplomacy

(diplomacy) Diplomatic relations, by controlling trade to affect other goals, such as using trade barriers to influence the implementation of amenable foreign political decisions.


hostage diplomacy

(diplomacy) Diplomatic relations, by detention of foreigners to affect other goals, such as using arrests to influence the implementation of amenable foreign political decisions, or prisoner swaps.


Orange Shirt Day

en-proper-noun

Orange Shirt Day (plural Orange Shirt Days)

From orange + shirt + day. From the colour of the shirt worn by a survivor of the residential school system, which was forcibly removed by Christian missionaries, who desired to assimilate indigenous children forcibly enrolled at the schools.

cultural genocide
cultural genocide#English

(Canada, politics, memorials) September 30th; A national observance in remembrance of the time of year that Indigenous children were forcibly removed from Native homes to be forced into schools to assimilate into the colonizer's culture and lose their birth culture; and the cultural genocide and deaths of children at the schools, caused by the residential school system. Observers frequently wear orange shirts to stand in solidarity with survivors of the residential schools. First observed in 2013.

A coincident statutory holiday of Canada in remembrance of the cultural genocide suffered by the Indigenous peoples of Canada caused by Canadian government policies. First observed in 2021.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation


breech face

(firearms) The area around the firing pin, which is situated against the head of the cartridge.


BernieCare

Blend of Bernie + healthcare, after the pattern of ObamaCare, HillaryCare, etc.

2016 February 3, Paula Dwyer, “BernieCare Looks to Europe; Americans Don't”, in Liberal Opinion Week, page 8:

Senator Lindsey Graham summed up the current situation with precision when he said his main concern is that "Obamacare" is a placeholder for BernieCare."^([sic])

2017 September 29, Star Parker, “Collins irresponsibly blocks health reform”, in The Daily Corinthian, page 4A:

Now, BernieCare wants to put a lot of power and authority into the hands of the government, which has historically lead to corruption and a whole host of other problems.

2018 August 31, Eric Kim, “Why Healthcare Must Be an Exception to the Capitalist System”, in The Amherst Student, Amherst College, page 5:

(US politics) The 2017 Medicare for All bill or any other healthcare reform supported by Bernie Sanders.


Bernista

Sure, he's fond of cheesy dad-jokes, but the mayor is winning major cool-dad cred with his Bernista kids this week, getting a sit-down dinner with Bernie Sanders in Burlington.

2016 August 29, “Winners & Losers”, in City & State New York, page 42:

"It's almost like the Bernie Sanders guys are scared! The Bernistas are out in force!"

2017, Scott Conroy, Vote First Or Die: The New Hampshire Primary: America's Discerning, Magnificent, and Absurd Road to the White House, unnumbered page:

Once Trump and Clinton won the nomination of their respective parties, the Bernistas should have held their noses and votes for Clinton.

2018, Frank Perez, "Commentary: Bernie Sanders, Anthony Kennedy and the Supreme Court", Ambush Magazine, 17 July 2018 - 30 July 2018, page 36

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


kabuki dance

(politics, derogatory) Simulated behavior on the part of politicians that is intended to give a false but alluring appearance; posturing.


Keeper of the Privy Seal

en-noun

Keeper of the Privy Seal (plural Keepers of the Privy Seal)

(politics, UK) Synonym of Lord Privy Seal.


single-payer

(healthcare) Being or relating to a form of universal health care in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system (whether state-run or contracted from private organizations).


Awami League

Transliteration of Bengali আওয়ামী লীগ (aōẇami lig, literally “people’s league”).

translit

(Bangladesh politics) A major political party of Bangladesh and the former East Pakistan.


slips and capture

A type of cognitive error whereby a person inadvertently performs one action while intending to do another.

(law enforcement) Particularly, the error by which a police officer bears a gun while intending to take out a Taser instead.


wetline

wetlines (plural)
wet line (alternative)

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In cheatgrass the wetline technique has proven to be successful and is equally useful in other light to moderate grass fuels on relatively smooth terrain.

1982, Henry A. Wright, Fire Ecology: United States and Southern Canada, page 398:

We have used this method in the evening when strip headfires would burn into the wetline, but the backfire would go out.

1977, Robert E. Martin, Wetline Technique for Prescribed Burning Firelines in Rangeland:

(firefighting) A line that has been doused with water in order to stop the advance of a fire.


Bjelkemander

Blend of Bjelke + gerrymander, named after Australian politician Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

named-after

(Australian politics) The intentional malapportionment of votes in Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s.


faceless man

Coined by Australian journalist Alan Reid in 1963 in The Daily Telegraph.

coin

(Australian politics, informal) Someone who is not elected to political office, but exerts power over political affairs from behind the scenes.


edge control

It is conditioned by edge control, minimizing threats to personal danger, resolving the encounter, avoiding excessive paperwork, and getting on with something more interesting.

2012, Carol Archbold, Policing: A Text/Reader, page 399:

In this section I describe edge control as a phenomenon associated with the contingent (or unpredictable) nature of police-citizen interactions.

2014, John P. Crank, Understanding Police Culture, page 174:

A great deal of police work is about edge control.

2018, Michael Caldero, Jeffrey Dailey, Brian Withrow, Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause, page 199:

(law enforcement) The management of an unpredictable situation in order to prevent it from becoming physically dangerous.


composite monarchy

en-noun

composite monarchy (plural composite monarchies)

Coined in 1975 by German-born British historian Helmut Koenigsberger and popularised by Sir John Huxtable Elliott.

1995 [Routledge], Conrad Russell, Chapter 8: Composite monarchies in early modern Europe, Alexander Grant, Keith Stringer, Uniting the Kingdom?, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-library, page 133,
All multiple kingdoms are composite monarchies, but not all composite monarchies are multiple kingdoms.

These historians have rediscovered what J. R. Seeley realised a century ago: that England, just like France, was a composite monarchy, just as Britain, just like the Spanish Monarchy, was a multiple kingdom.⁷⁰ In the former, a diversity of territories, peoples, institutions and legal jurisdictions is cemented under a single, recognised sovereign authority; in the latter, various kingdoms were ruled by a single sovereign, while they maintained varying degrees of autonomy.

2000, David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, Cambridge University Press, page 22:

Composite monarchy offered Machiavelli a vision of polity that did not enslave its territory, as Florence, operating the dictates of empire, invariably did. Contra empire, early modern monarchy offers a vision of cities and territories coexisting on equal footing. is there a way to combine composite monarchy and republic to build a new kind of state?

2015, Alissa M. Ardito, Machiavelli and the Modern State, Cambridge University Press, page 195:

(politics, historical) A type of monarchy, common in Europe during the early modern period, in which a single ruler governed several territories as if they were separate kingdoms, each with its own local traditions and legal structures.

Helmut Koenigsberger
John Elliott (historian)
composite monarchy

composite state

several territories governed by a single ruler


Keystoner

From keystone + -er, after the "Keystone State" (Pennsylvania) from whose National Guard it originated.

(US, military) A member of the 28th Infantry Division (United States).


point of privilege

point of privilege (plural points of privilege)

(parliamentary procedure) a request that relates to matters of comfort, amplification, or safety of the assembled


take the ride

en-verb

take the ride (third-person singular simple present takes the ride, present participle taking the ride, simple past took the ride, past participle taken the ride)

takes the ride (present singular third-person)
taking the ride (participle present)
took the ride (past)
taken the ride (participle past)

(idiomatic, slang, US, law enforcement) To concede to be arrested for a crime and be transported to jail.


regrexiteer

(UK politics) A person suffering from regrexit (a feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it).


jellop

jellops (plural)
jowlop (alternative)
jollop (alternative)

Initially in the form jollop, jowlop, from jowl, jole + lap (see dewlap for more about lap).

(heraldry) The wattle (“skin hanging down below the neck; dewlap”) of a cock or similar creature.


mutual aid

From mutual + aid. Popularised by the anarcho-communist philosopher, Peter Kropotkin.

(anarchism, communism, philosophy, by extension) A voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit.


trap car

(law enforcement) A vehicle used by law enforcement agencies as bait to capture car thieves or thieves who steal items from cars.


dishonorable discharge

en-noun

dishonorable discharge (plural dishonorable discharges)

dishonorable discharges (plural)
dishonourable discharge (alternative)

The soldiers could be charged with wilful disobeying of orders, which could lead to dishonourable discharge, forfeit of pay and up to five years' confinement.

2004 October 16, Dan Glaister, “Doubts about US morale in Iraq as troops refuse 'suicide mission'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(military) Release from military service because of conduct that is considered reprehensible.

erottaminen

no strict equivalent in the Finnish military

but see wydalony z wojska

no strict equivalent in the Polish military


hyperbomb

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The hyperbomb of that day will have lost meaning as a weapon and gained meaning as a complex substitute for Francoise Sagan's "sports" car, as this death device is so playfully called.

1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play, World Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 33:

"He went back inside," Igor grunted. "After examining the artefacts we'd packed for dispatch. Probably wants to make sure the computer records don't describe them as ultra-guns or hyperbombs or whatever the hell."

1974, John Brunner, Total Eclipse, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33:

We entered an area where a hyperbomb had been detonated during the war.

2014, J. Michael Reeves, Terry Austin, Byron Preiss, I—Alien, J. Boylston, →ISBN:

(rare, military, science fiction, video games) An exceedingly powerful, destructive bomb; superbomb.


Jaichand

Jaichands (plural)
Jaychand (alternative)

Borrowed from Hindi जयचंद (jaycand)/जयचन्द (jaycand), from Sanskrit जय (jaya, “victory”) + चन्द्र (candra, “moon”); Hindi variant of Sanskrit जयचन्द्र (jayacandra, “Jayachandra”), a Gahadavala king whose rule immediately preceded the Ghurid Muslim conquest of much of India, and who was unfairly accused in the poem Prithviraj Raso of conspiring with the Ghurids against India in order to defeat his rival Prithviraj.

der

2021, Devdutt Patanaik, MumbaiMirrorhttps://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/others/sunday-read/someone-who-subscribed-to-a-larger-idea-one-that-went-beyond-the-self/articleshow/78467866.cms
But in Hindutva mythology, Jaichand is the archetypal traitor because of whom Muslims are able to invade and conquer India, overpowering the valiant Rajputs.

(India, politics, slang, derogatory) One who opposes Hindutva and supports its enemies, a traitor, especially a race traitor.

Gahadavala dynasty
Jayachandra
Prithviraj Chauhan


let's go, Brandon

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From a 2021 interview with racing driver Brandon Brown when a reporter incorrectly described NASCAR fans chanting "fuck Joe Biden" as chanting "let's go, Brandon".

When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening.

[2021 October 31, Colleen Long, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden”, in AP News, Associated Press:

“A sieve of a southern border, the supply chain massacred, food prices rising by the day, crime rampant in big cities and being browbeaten continuously by Beijing. Yes, he is a real success.” Flanagan then adds sarcastically, “One more thing, ‘Let's Go Brandon.’”

2021 November 11, Mark Bonokoski, quoting Steve Flanagan, “BONOKOSKI: ‘Let's go Brandon! Let's go Brandon!’”, in Toronto Sun:

State Rep. Dave Williams, who is challenging eight-term GOP congressman Doug Lamborn in an intraparty contest, sued Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold last week after her office rejected allowing his name to appear on the ballot as Dave “Let's Go Brandon” Williams.

2022 April 30, John Dorman, “Colorado Supreme Court says GOP lawmaker can't use ‘Let's Go Brandon’ nickname on congressional ballot”, in Business Insider:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visited a D.C. jail to check on conditions for the Jan. 6 defendants, with Republican lawmakers handshaking and high-fiving the prisoners, who chanted “Let's Go Brandon!” – a coded vulgarity against President Joe Biden – as the group left.

2023 March 27, “X, y, z: News from around our 50 states”, in USA Today, page B3:

(US, slang, US politics) A euphemism for “fuck Joe Biden”.

Bill Posey
Brandon Brown (racing driver)
United States House of Representatives


chevronelly

(heraldry) Marked with a chevronel or chevronels.


politically homeless

en-adj

politically homeless (comparative more politically homeless, superlative most politically homeless)

more politically homeless (comparative)
most politically homeless (superlative)

(politics, slang) Alienated from the current political atmosphere or from one's previous political affiliations, and struggling to identify with any political party or ideology.


political homelessness

politically homeless
politically homeless

(politics, slang) The condition or state of being politically homeless.


intellectual dark web

political correctness
political correctness

(politics) An informal group of commentators who oppose what they regard as the dominance of identity politics, political correctness, and cancel culture in higher education and the news media within Western countries.


IDW

intellectual dark web
intellectual dark web#English

(politics) Initialism of intellectual dark web.


radical centrism

(politics) Any political philosophy which advocates radical changes and reforms, combining ideas from both left-wing and right-wing ideology.


radical centrist

radical centrist (comparative more radical centrist, superlative most radical centrist)

more radical centrist (comparative)
most radical centrist (superlative)

(politics) Pertaining to or aligning with radical centrism.


radical centrist

en-noun

radical centrist (plural radical centrists)

(politics) Someone who conforms to radical centrism.


anarcho-fascism

(politics) Any philosophy holding both anarchist and fascist positions.


anarcho-fascist

(politics) A supporter of anarcho-fascism.


GQP

Blend of GOP + QAnon.
The GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", the Republican Party of the United States of America, a conservative political party. The usage of "Q" refers to Republican politicians either supporting the QAnon conspiracy theories, or becoming closer to extremism and fascism, represented by the more militant members of the QAnon groups.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) The Republican Party, especially politicians and members who align themselves with militant extremism.


Qaren

Blend of QAnon + Karen. It was first used in a viral video on Twitter posted on 2020, mocking a woman who got angry at a doctor for not administering hydroxychloroquine to treat a COVID-19 infection.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.


radically centrist

en-adj

radically centrist (comparative more radically centrist, superlative most radically centrist)

more radically centrist (comparative)
most radically centrist (superlative)


CODIS

Combined DNA Index System
w:Combined DNA Index System

(US, law enforcement, criminology) Acronym of Combined DNA Index System


DDG

guided-missile destroyer
guided-missile destroyer#English

(military, nautical) Initialism of guided-missile destroyer.


nondisappearing

Allotments were made for the test of the gun-lift battery and the nondisappearing barbette carriages.

1896, Fifth Report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, page 15:

12-inch gun-lift carriages, altered to nondisappearing.

1902, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War (part 1, page 9)

disappearing carriage
disappearing carriage

(military, historical) Being the kind of gun carriage that is not a disappearing carriage.


spike attack

(military) The detonation of multiple nuclear warheads at the same time, so as to multiply the destructive effect.


burn pit

burn pit exposure in Iraq

(US, military) An open-air pit where waste is burned. Long-term exposure to its smoke is associated with health problems.


en-noun

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism (uncountable)

From the term fully automated luxury communism, proposed by the British journalist Aaron Bastani in 2014, which suggests that automation will make work and scarcity obsolete. The Gay and Space parts were later added by activists to suggest that this utopia would also end all persecution of LGBTQ people and become more advanced than modern society.

Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism

(politics, Internet slang, LGBTQ) A utopian social system proposed by far-left activists where gender norms, wealth, and work become obsolete and everyone lives in luxury.


MCLOS

manual command to line of sight
w:manual command to line of sight

(military, weaponry) Initialism of manual command to line of sight, a method of missile guidance requiring that the operator manually steer the missile onto the target.


Crazy Ivan

(naval, slang) A hard turn in a submarine to clear the baffles and get into position to attack any followers.


angles and dangles

(naval, slang) A random series of loops, turns, and depth changes in a submarine, intended to eliminate the self-noise which could occur during a baffle-clearing event.


anti-SJW

The mid to late 2010s saw the predominance of anti-SJWs in the skeptic community on YouTube.

social justice warrior
social justice warrior

(Internet slang, politics) Someone who opposes the zealous behavior and strict ideology of social justice warriors, especially someone who engages in activism against it.


anti-SJW

en-adj

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

more anti-SJW (comparative)
most anti-SJW (superlative)

This is the case, for example, with Dave Rubin, the talk show host who gives a platform to many libertarian academics and anti-SJW YouTubers.

2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society, page 17:

(Internet slang, politics) Opposed to social justice warriors.


Bolehland

From Malay boleh + -land, where the root comes from the expression in Malay Malaysia Boleh (“Malaysia can [do it]”), ultimately from Malay boleh (“can, able to”). The term was based on politicians using the previous phrase while failing to resolve various problems in Malaysian society.

der

(Malaysia, sarcastic, derogatory, slang, colloquial, politics) Malaysia.


have got someone's six

en-verb

have got someone's six (third-person singular simple present has got someone's six, present participle having got someone's six, simple past and past participle had got someone's six)

has got someone's six (present singular third-person)
having got someone's six (participle present)
had got someone's six (participle past)
had got someone's six (past)
have someone's six (alternative)

Six is slang for "rear; behind", which is itself an ellipsis of six o'clock; see more at the entry for six.

I've got your six!

have someone's back
have someone's back#English

(US, chiefly military and law enforcement slang) Synonym of have someone's back.


black gang

Borrowed from Chinese 黑幫 /黑帮 (hēibāng, “gangsters, gang”). The first character, 黑, translates as "black" on its own.

bor

(politics, historical, derogatory) A propaganda term used by Mao Zedong against his opponents.


rassing

(naval slang) The transfer of fuel, munitions, or stores from one vessel to another while under way.

(naval slang) Acquiring something dishonestly; scrounging or filching.


red hat

From the red band on the caps they wore.

(UK, military slang) A senior army officer.


Black liberation

black liberation
black liberation#English

(chiefly US politics) Alternative letter-case form of black liberation.


lavender lad

Coined by U.S. federal senator Everett Dirksen in the 1950s. From the association with femininity of the color lavender. An alliterative construct, pairing lad (“boy”) and lavender.

(historical, US, politics, sexuality, LGBTQ, slang) A homosexual male.


FUDD

(politics) Acronym of fear, uncertainty, doubt, despair.


gay liberation

(politics) Equality for homosexual people.

(politics) An activist movement in the late 1960s to 1980s that advocates better treatment for gay men and lesbian women.


blue suit

Bill Sulzman quoted in 2012, David Keen, Useful Enemies
Inside Schriever and Peterson [air force bases], a lot of the military contractors are working alongside the blue suits.

(military, informal) A member of military personnel at an air base.


male liberation

Precisely because the tenor and mood of the male liberation efforts so far have been one of self-accusation, self-hate, and a repetition of feminist assertions, I believe it is doomed to failure in its present form.

2000, Herb Goldberg, The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege, page 17:

While this approach to male liberation worked to attract men toward feminism, certain problematic tendencies began to arise within the context of these groups.

2017, Christa Hodapp, Men's Rights, Gender, and Social Media, page xi:

(politics) The freedom of men from sexism; equal rights for men.


prisoner at large

en-noun

prisoner at large (plural prisoners at large)

(military) A member of the military who is being disciplined by being forbidden to leave the barracks or ship on which they are stationed.


paybob

A form book about as helpful as the old Greek oracles is thus produced and guides the odds given by the numerous illegal bookmakers who compete with the tote run by the paybobs on each ship.

1979, W. B. Harvey, Downstairs in the Royal Navy, page 60:

Sod all the Shipwrights and CPO Cooks,
Sod all the Paybobs and their bleeding books
For we're saying goodbye to them all
As back to their hammocks they crawl.

2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines, page 141:


nationalitarianism

nationalitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural nationalitarianisms)

The fact remains, however, that Arab nationalitarianism cannot be based only on a community of civilization or on the assumption of shared material interests; it requires a third constitutive factor, which draws on the other two and yet is distinct […]

1983, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Contemporary Arab Political Thought, page 147:

He distinguishes between the bourgeois nationalism which represents the interest of the indigenous élites, and a liberationist, anti-imperial, internationalist nationalism (which Lazarus terms “nationalitarianism” [Lazarus 1994; Abdel-Malek 1981]) which views the attainment of nationhood as a necessary but first step towards the wholesale reconstruction of society in the postcolonial era (Fanon 1968).

2004, Neil Lazarus, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies:

This is where, regarding the inclusive potentials of nation as concept, we can recall Deleuze and Guattari's emphasis on 'nationalitarianisms' (and not any singular dominant characteristic of 'national' as universal) […]

2021, Ian Buchanan, editor, Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a Post-Postcolonial Multiplicity:

(politics) Support for an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.


blow from a gun

en-verb

blow from a gun (third-person singular simple present blows from a gun, present participle blowing from a gun, simple past blew from a gun, past participle blown from a gun)

blows from a gun (present singular third-person)
blowing from a gun (participle present)
blew from a gun (past)
blown from a gun (participle past)

(transitive, military, historical, of a person) To execute by tying against the muzzle of a loaded cannon, which is then fired.

Indian Rebellion of 1857
blowing from a gun


Gadsden flag

Named after politician Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution.

(politics, historical) An American political flag with a yellow field depicting a timber rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Beneath the rattlesnake is the motto "Dont Tread on Me"


eat the rich

Attributed to the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The original quotation was: “Quand le peuple n’aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche.” (“When the people shall have no more to eat, they will eat the rich.”)
Became popular in the 21st-century United States as an anti-capitalist motto in left-wing online communities.

Eat the Rich:

1993, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance, “Eat the Rich” (track 2), in Get a Grip, performed by Aerosmith, Los Angeles: Geffen Records:

There have been many cries to “eat the rich” over recent years in relation to white collar crime.

2011 January, Diane Wiley, “Eat the Rich: Juror Questionnaires for White Collar Cases”, in The Jury Expert, volume 23, number 1, Timonium, Maryland: American Society of Trial Consultants, →ISSN, page 43:

There is something thrilling about an artwork that does not just investigate, explore or expose questions about today, but makes explicit the injustices of the present system, proudly brandishing a call to eat the rich and fight a class war.

2018 June 7, Chris Hayes, “Democracia, ORDER”, in Circa Art Magazine, →JSTOR, retrieved 2022-12-06:

There's this whole cycle of eat-the-rich movies right now with “Joker” and “Parasite.” How do you feel knowing the movie you’ve made and then seeing those other movies coming out?

2019 November 28, Mark Olsen, “‘Knives Out’ Ending Explained: How Rian Johnson’s Socially Relevant Mystery Pays Tribute to the Past”, in Los Angeles Times:

The eat-the-rich movie is directed by Mark Mylod, whose recent work includes episodes of “Succession,” “Shameless,” and “Game of Thrones” […]

2022 July 10, Jordan Hoffman, “‘What, Are We Eating a Rolex?’ ‘The Menu’ Full Trailer Is Revealed”, in GoldDerby:

First of all, I want to say I’m not a fan of the, how do I say, advertisement of the movie as an “eat the rich” movie because what I actually tried to do was to portray everybody as nice.

2022 November 4, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Ruben Östlund, “‘Triangle of Sadness’ with Director Ruben Östlund”, in Financial Times, London:

(slang, politics, idiomatic) An expression of contempt towards capitalism and the rich, demanding an equitable redistribution of wealth.

كلوا الأغنياء

expression of contempt towards the rich, capitalism and widespread poverty


dissident right

It is not known who has coined the term, but it refers to a collection of right wing groups that do not fit into mainstream right wing categories. This can include White nationalism, Nationalism, National Socialism, Fascism, Neo-Absolutism and other ideas.

It’s a battle that’s both personality-driven and ideological, between supporters of Spencer and the “alt-right” more generally and supporters of the “dissident right” or the so-called “America First” movement, led in part by 22-year-old Nick Fuentes, a former conservative radio host and Unite the Right attendee who is growing in popularity with the white nationalist movement.

2017, “Archived copy”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2021-11-25:

Other groups identify as “mainstreamers” or the “dissident right” and attempt to move mainstream politics to accept white supremacist ideas.

(US politics) Far-right political groups who oppose mainstream conservatism, promoting more radical beliefs such as opposition to LGBT rights and non-White identity politics, anti-Semitism, white nationalism and white supremacy, and traditionalist nationalism.


flat scissors

en-noun

flat scissors (countable and uncountable, plural flat scissors)

(uncountable, aviation, military, with the) A form of the scissors defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker and slowing in order to force the opponent to overshoot, without moving out of the initial plane of the attack; often continues, with the roles of attacker and defender alternating between the two aircraft, until one is either shot down or manages to escape.

(countable, aviation, military) An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.


rolling scissors

rolling scissors (countable and uncountable, plural rolling scissors)

Remember: maintain your aircraft's energy, keep his tail on your line of sight, and relentlessly pursue the insufferable oaf that insulted your driving skills. If he gets behind you, break out the rolling scissors and force an overshoot.

2021 March 19, Bosnian Ape Society, 4:36 from the start, in Is Your Car Safe From Supermaneuverable Air-Defense Fighter Aircraft?, archived from the original on 2022-08-07:

(uncountable, aviation, military, with the) A form of the scissors defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving pulling up, rolling one's aircraft towards that of the attacker, and pulling the nose of one's aircraft towards the attacker to force an overshoot, resulting in the two aircraft barrel-rolling around each other as each attempts to gain the advantage.


defensive spiral

defensive spiral (plural defensive spirals)

(aviation, military) A last-resort defensive maneuver in dogfighting used by an aircraft with critically-low kinetic energy, consisting of a rolling scissors performed straight down, using gravity to supply the kinetic energy needed to continue maneuvering, while attempting to either slow down enough to get behind the attacker or else trick the attacker into crashing into the ground.

basic fighter maneuvers#Defensive spiral


Corporal Forbes

(military, slang, archaic) gastroenteritis


attack helicopter

attack helicopter (plural attack helicopters)

(military) An armed helicopter with the offensive capability of engaging ground targets such as enemy infantry, military vehicles, and fortifications.


pre-Brexit

(European politics) Referring to the time before Brexit.


in the rattle

If you were in the rattle too often, you would be labeled a troublemaker. Once that happened, it was virtually impossible to get back into the Navy's good books, and the chances were high that they would find some way to get rid of you.

2005, Charles Gidley Wheeler, Jannaway's Mutiny:

(UK, naval, slang) Kept in confinement as a disciplinary measure.


à rouet

The earliest pistols were made with wheels (à rouet), and the barrel did not measure more than a foot in length.

1875, P. L. Jacob ·, The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance, page 104:

Soon the petronel was replaced by the arquebuse à rouet, and a little later on by the wheel-lock pistol, which was first used by the German cavalry at the battle of St. Quentin, in 1557.

1937, Franklin Henry Hooper, The Encyclopædia Britannica - Volume 5, page 69:

In 1639–42, the average value of an arquebus à rouet was 80 livres; flintlock muskets were valued at 6 livres.

2008, David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream, page 617:

(firearms, historical) Having a small wheel fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.


hammer and anvil

(military) A tactic involving the use of two primary forces, one to pin down an enemy and the other to encircle him.


God Emperor

the God Emperor (canonical)
God-Emperor (alternative)

God + Emperor. Its use in reference to the Emperor of Japan is a calque of Japanese 天皇 (tennō, literally “heavenly sovereign/emperor”), referring to the emperor's descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu.
In reference to Donald Trump, from Trump-supporting Internet users humorously depicting him as the God-Emperor of Mankind, a character from the British science fiction tabletop game Warhammer 40,000.

cal

The meme was from Trump's cameo at WrestleMania 23 a decade prior, and in it he tackled WWE owner Vince McMahon before pummeling him on ... Several of his fellow users were congratulating him for getting “the God Emperor's” attention.

2017, Jared Yates Sexton, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Catapult, →ISBN:

Just days after his election, Trump reaffirmed his campaign commitments to shut down Muslim immigration by signing an ... and with the election over and the man the AltRight called “the god emperor” on his way to the White House, ...

2017, George Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

To the 4chan boys Trump was a hero, the social failure in chief, a clown prince. They called him the God Emperor, a swaggering fat Daddy, who, as one commentator put it, would put a car in every white man's drive and an Aryan woman in ...

2018, Javaad Alipoor, The Believers are But Brothers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

“Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It's time to deport these people,” Anglin declared, ... and avid campaign volunteers, referring to Trump with extravagant nicknames such as “Our Great God Emperor,” “the Nimble ...

2018, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Springer, →ISBN, page 136:

Pepe had already been frequently portrayed as a Trump supporter on social media sites. ... a quick browse through the rabid Trump sub-Reddit the_donald will notice many of its members exalting the politician with the title “God Emperor."

2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 190:

... Donald J. Trump'.46 This 380,000-strong group refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' and 'the God Emperor',and gains its identity by standing against liberalism, feminism, intellectualism, and much more besides ...

2019, Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 130:

Trump won. They'd made these Photoshopped pictures of Trump flying around on his victory horse, through the gates of heaven, with a crown on his head and his golden sword. They call him the God Emperor.” “That sounds awful.” “I know.

2019, Blake Nelson, The Red Pill: A Novel, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor.”1 Ten days after Trump's election, the National Policy Institute, the generically named but emphatically white-nationalist think tank led by professional racist Richard Spencer, ...

2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, US politics, humorous) Donald Trump, American politician, 45th president and 47th president of the United States.


HVP

(military) Initialism of hypervelocity projectile.


grand quarter

(heraldry) A quarter that is itself quartered.


perimeter check

en-noun

perimeter check (plural perimeter checks)

(law enforcement) A patrol conducted by law enforcement to monitor or secure an area.


hot pencil

A police officer uses a pencil to write tickets, which would get warm if used a lot due to friction.

He was a hot pencil who kept CHP brass happy by writing more tickets than anybody. Secretly, he was using his highly polished Badge 861 1 to stalk young women for weird, sexually tinged power games.

From what he could ascertain, he was at least as good or even better as a police detective and as a partner than Charga ever was or could ever be. “he was more than a hot pencil when he was in uniform.” Dunne continued, “Did you know ...

2011, Joseph "Champagne Joe" Militello, Canister Of Evil, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 34:

Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct Tom Barker. about the same time as the police. ... As is common in police agencies, his fellow officers were aware of his bizarre antics. ... Known as “hot pencil,” he averaged 250 tickets a month.

2020, Tom Barker, Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 104:

(law enforcement slang) A police officer who writes many tickets.


prerogative state

prerogative state (plural prerogative states)

Coined by German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel in his book The Dual State (1941). The "dual state", originally referring to Nazi Germany, was made up of the normative state and the prerogative state.

Post-communist development in Russia has been characterized by the development of a dual state in which the constitutional order is balanced by the consolidation of an arbitrary prerogative state.

2010, Richard Sakwa, “The revenge of the Caucasus: Chechenization and the dual state in Russia”, in Nationalities Papers, volume 38, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 601–622:

As neo-authoritarianism advances, the [Chinese Communist] Party moves to the front stage and becomes hands-on in managing important affairs, crowding out legal rules and institutions. It has expanded and solidified a prerogative state to solve politically sensitive matters through substantively extra-legal methods.

2019 March 20, Hualing Fu, “Touching the Proverbial Elephant: The Multiple Shades of Chinese Law”, in China Perspectives, volume 2019, number 1, →ISSN, pages 3–9:

(government) A governmental system that exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.


JQ

en-verb

JQ (third-person singular simple present JQs, present participle JQing, simple past and past participle JQed)

JQs (present singular third-person)
JQing (participle present)
JQed (participle past)
JQed (past)

JQing going mainstream

2023 December 7, u/Bilk_Ozbi, r/Destiny, Reddit:

conspiracy theorist
conspiracy theorist#English

(Internet slang, politics) To invoke the Jewish Question (especially as a Nazi or conspiracy theorist).


paleotard

(slang, derogatory, politics) A paleoconservative.


proposition nation

en-noun

proposition nation (plural proposition nations)

Because they view the world through a racial lens, white nationalists do not agree with the notion that America is a creedal or proposition nation, meaning one whose societal and cultural norms are based on acceptance of the Declaration of Independence and the other founding documents.

2009, Barbara Perry, Hate Crimes, volume 3, page 117:

During the Cold War, conservative intellectuals, including Straussians and the brilliant Jesuit priest John Courtney Murray, advanced the concept of America as a “proposition nation” that was in conflict with a rival ideological nation, the Soviet Union. This conception of American identity based primarily on shared ideas took hold on the right.

2020, Nativism, Nationalism, and Patriotism, page 121:

(politics) A nation founded on certain creeds or ideals.


leftugee

Blend of left (political left, left-wing) + refugee.

blend

Just as a refugee resettles to escape hardship, a leftugee does so to flee the punitive financial environment created in their state by big government.

2019 December 27, Jason Orestes, “'Leftugees': Red states must defend themselves from the blue-state exodus”, in Washington Examiner:

But the fact that leftugees move in pursuit of more-affordable housing or to escape chronic traffic jams does not mean they all prefer a pure “red” policy model of low taxes and fewer services. To the contrary, blue-state migrants may nudge the politics of their new homes — and the new congressional districts to be drawn around them — leftward, while avoiding the worst liberal excesses they left behind.

2020 January 6, Charles Lane, “Want more bang for your vote? Move.”, in Washington Post:

There's dispute over whether the newcomers will change state politics in the South, as they may have in North Carolina, which elected a Democratic governor in 2016, or are “leftugees” fleeing liberal policies who will embrace conservatism.

2020 January 6, Tim Henderson, “Some states face political changes as newcomers arrive”, in Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, page A6:

Forbes.com had a stark March 2021 headline for what's happening around the country: “America's Mass Migration Intensifies as ‘Leftugees’ Flee Blue States and Counties for Red.”

2022 January 23, “Color these (new) Tennessee former blue-staters red”, in The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, page H7:

(US, politics) One who leaves a liberal blue state to live in a conservative red state, (often) doing so in favour of fewer regulations and lower taxes.


liberalitis

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of being a liberal (person with progressive or left-wing views), said as if it were due to a disease or affliction.


Republicanitis

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of being a Republican (supporter of a conservative political party), said as if it were due to a disease or affliction.


Democratitis

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of being a Democrat (supporter of a progressive political party), said as if it were due to a disease or affliction.


conservativitis

(chiefly politics, informal, derogatory, rare) The state of being conservative, said as if it were due to a disease or affliction.


Trumpitis

From Trump + -itis, by affiliation with diseases formed with the suffix.

Evidently, even President Obama has become afflicted with Trumpitis. For only this explains the conceited and crass clarion call he issued to ...

2017, Anthony Livingston Hall, The Ipinions Journal: Commentaries on the Global Events of 2016—Volume Xii, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Slimicus Trumpitis June 30 If Pence and Trump knew or should have known of the bounties being placed by the Russian government on the heads of young American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, I must make a wish, one that I never thought ...

2020, Richard Castellane, The I Hate Trump Book: Past, Present & Future*, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

So we all need to learn to disinfect ourselves daily, to clean our souls of 'Trumpitis', by not rushing to the media to see the latest insult or outrage, and by learning to look with quietness and discernment at what is transpiring in ...

2020, Chris Schaefer, Re-Imagining America, Hawthorn Press, →ISBN:

The nation also was in the midst of an outbreak of dreaded acute Trumpitis. After 690 days into the administration of the best president we have one third of the nation was recovering from a previous attack of the malady, one third was ...

2020, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of supporting or being similar to Donald Trump (American politician).


Obamaitis

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of supporting or being similar to Barack Obama (American politician), said as if it were due to a disease or affliction.


Odelsting

(politics) The quasi-lower house of the parliament of Norway from 1814 to 2009.


banker's ramp

The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”

1990, Randall Bennett Woods, A Changing of the Guard: Anglo-American Relations, 1941-1946, page 409:

But over the course of the last weekend before the 1997 election, Brown concluded, 'What a release an independent Bank of England would be – a release from a “banker's ramp”!'

2020, Harold James, Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003, page 410:

(UK, politics) An economic crisis engineered by bankers for political ends.


Five Poisons

(politics) Five groups regarded by the Communist Party of China as threats to their rule: Uyghur and Tibetan supporters of respective independence movements, Falun Gong adherents, and supporters of Chinese democracy and the independence of Taiwan.


War on Christmas

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(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) An alleged plot by atheists and liberals to remove Christianity from Christmas or ban the festival of Christmas itself.


bedsheet ballot

en-noun

bedsheet ballot (plural bedsheet ballots)

Suggesting that the ballet is long enough to be used as a bedsheet.

(politics) A ballot offering an extremely long list of candidates.


VBNMW

(US politics) Initialism of vote blue no matter who (“vote for any politician in the Democratic Party regardless of their record”).

Trumpster diving

voting for conservative politicians regardless of their record


From a phrase read from a ship's bell by a character in the 1996 movie White Squall. The phrase itself means "Where one of us goes, we will go together," or "We will go together with any one of our members."

But this particular image, posted in March by the Utah-based fashion, beauty, and parenting influencer Jalynn Schroeder to more than 50,000 followers, is accompanied by a series of hashtags that includes the initialism WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a motto used by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

2020 August 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful”, in The Atlantic:

Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy. The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.

“Where we go one, we go all,” erupted the crowd in a QAnon chant that’s frequently abbreviated to WWG1WGA in online messaging boards like 4chan, where the cult began.

2024 January 23, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “A Creepy QAnon Chant Rises at Trump’s Rally—and He Nods and Smiles”, in The New Republic:

(US politics) Initialism of where we go one, we go all: a popular slogan of QAnon believers.

NCSWIC

nothing can stop what is coming; slogan, meaning referring to mass arrests of opposing politicians or violence


gobonated

(heraldry) Gobony; compony; divided into a line of squares of alternating tincture.


antistealth

antistealth radar

(military) Designed to operate against stealth technologies.


Homocrat

All across the world, families came together and most people agreed, Retardican and Homocrat alike, it was a beautiful time to be alive on the planet Earth, wars or no wars, end or no end.

2006, Michael Soltys, The Grass is Green, page 244:

Ah yes, the way of the liberal. Never allow the 1st amendment rights of
others conflict with the distasteful agenda of the liberal homocrats.

2009 May 3, Jam Rock, “A liberal HOMOCRAT whines: "Miss California USA Should Quit or Be Fired"”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

2010 March 16, Democrat Gay Deadbeats, “Homocrat / democrat (Disney) scumbags who REFUSE to pay taxes”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

LOL... you Homocrats and Demofags have been hornswoggled into thinking
they actually give a shit about YOU, when the opposite is true... they
don't... they just wanted your vote and the sympathy of the stupid guilt-
stricken white idiots.

2016 August 13, AlleyCat, “LOL... Stupid Homocrats Think Hillary Clinton Is On Their Side”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory, offensive) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party, implying that they are homosexual.


anti-air

antiair (alternative)
anti air (alternative)

(military, aviation) Synonym of anti-aircraft.


greataxe

greataxes (plural)
greatax (alternative)
great-ax (alternative)
great-axe (alternative)

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From great + axe. Probably modeled on greatsword, greathelm, etc.

The Saint-Commander rested his famous greataxe against his chair. Gil recalled its name, Red Pilgrim.

1979, Brian Daley, The Starfollowers of Coramonde, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 48:

Dragon King Greataxe can be buffed by spells and consumables, while the Dragon Greatsword cannot.

2020 July 23, Corvo Attano, EdgeOfDreams, “Dragon king greataxe or Dragon greatsword?”, in reddit.com:

Last few days I played outpost rush or wars, the team with the most hammers + greataxes just wins.

2021 November 16, Leandermann, “PvP is only the highest number of greataxe + hammer wins”, in reddit.com:

(rare, video games, fantasy, weaponry) A giant axe; a broadaxe.


knockout merchant

knockout merchant (plural knockout merchants)

My second fight against the big dosser Deontay Wilder, the biggest knockout merchant in boxing history.

2020, Tyson Fury, The Furious Method: The Sunday Times bestselling guide to a healthier body & mind:

(boxing) A boxer who specializes in inflicting knockouts.


New Right

Nevertheless, advocates of individual freedom not only continue to exist, but are increasing in number. Refugees from the Old Right, the Old Left and the New Left, they are organizing independently under the New Right banner of libertarianism. The birth of the New Right occurred when libertarians finally accepted the fact that they had been abandoned by the liberals, used and misled by other radicals and sold out by the conservatives.

1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries:

(US politics) A conservative political movement formed during the 1960s and 1970s in response to the liberalism of the New Left.

While clearly opposed to the political thrust of much 'Heritage' cinema (Sammy and Rosie, in particular, in programmatically anti-Tory: for example, the property developer who ousts the 'straggly kids' is one of Thatcher's MPs and her vision of a 'new Britain' is blatantly lampooned), Kureishi's films do not, however, endorse traditional kinds of Left oppositional politics as the best means by which to challenge the hegemony of the New Right.

2001, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Hanif Kureishi, page 89:

(UK politics, historical) A strand of conservatism influenced by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, committed to economic liberalism as well as being socially conservative.

Employing the lambda symbol, identitarianism has gained increasing purchase amongst youth across western Europe, and France in particular, growing out of the (European) New Right (Nouvelle Droite), which dates to the 1970s and GRECE (Research and Study Group on European Civilization).

2020, Tim Nieguth, editor, Nationalism and Popular Culture, Routledge, →ISBN:

(European politics) The European New Right.


rugged individualism

(politics, US politics) The ideal in which an individual is more successful by their own work without any outside assistance, especially from the government.

(politics, US politics) The ideal in which social and economic interactions are more focused on the individual self, personal liberty, and independence.


SOF

(military) Initialism of special operations force.


FYSA

(military) Initialism of for your situational awareness.


Lufbery circle

Named after fighter ace Raoul Lufbery (1885–1918), though he was not the inventor.

(military, aviation) A defensive combat tactic in which multiple aircraft form a horizontal circle in the air when attacked, so that the armament of each aircraft offers a measure of protection to the others.


Tammanyism

(politics) A style of corrupt democratic politics.


Tammanyize

en-verb

Tammanyize (third-person singular simple present Tammanyizes, present participle Tammanyizing, simple past and past participle Tammanyized)

Tammanyizes (present singular third-person)
Tammanyizing (participle present)
Tammanyized (participle past)
Tammanyized (past)
Tammanize (alternative)

(transitive, politics) To adapt or convert to Tammanyism, a style of corrupt democratic politics.


ratificationist

(politics) A supporter of ratification (of a treaty, etc.).


loonytarianism

Hasn't it dawned on you that the same forces that made communism unworkable also make loonytarianism unworkable?

2000 May 19, rose...@idt.net, “Re: The academic Left claims that 'fascism' is "Right".”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

John Stossel even seems to be trying to indoctrinate school children in the ways of radical Loonytarianism.

2000 July 28, Robert Calvert, “John Stossel's rantings”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Absolute, utter nonsense. Loonytarianism is crap. Other than a few nut cases, there is NO support for those idiotic beliefs.

2001 September 4, righ...@sodangerous.com, “Re: Does zero tolerance contribute to school shootings?”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) Libertarianism, viewed as untenable or absurd.


libertopianism

Conservative libertopianism is chock full of internal contradictions.

1997 December 15, BretCahill, “Re: All Men Are Angels”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Thus we get back to the argument that Libertopianism provides protection for the rich only, […]

2000 September 9, John Merrall, “Re: How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

In 1991, the extropians also founded an e-mail list, catching the wind of the Internet typhoon and its high-tech libertopianism.

2004, James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human Future, page 166:

(US, politics, derogatory) Libertarianism, viewed as untenable or hopelessly idealistic.


libertopian

I prefer to keep my feet on the ground and resist any attempt at change by either the libertopians or the utopian socialists.

1998 September 4, T.Asquith, “Re: Booming Corporate Economy Brings Layoffs”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

I see. So libertopians are in favour of government passing laws in favour of business. Figgers.

2000 August 23, John Merrall, “Re: How a Libertarian Capitalist Became a Libertarian Socialist”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

This tired old canard used ad nauseum^([sic]) that there is no such thing as"the people" or "the public" or "the public will" or "the public good" ie: the denial of any collective rights or collective powers or collective needs in a community, is merely ignorant denial of facts, usually done because any admission that a large group may have a good reason to impose it's collective will on an individual is anathema to libertopians.

2001 April 21, Scott Weiser, “Re: The GOP's Libertarian Problem”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) A libertarian.


libertopian

en-adj

libertopian (comparative more libertopian, superlative most libertopian)

more libertopian (comparative)
most libertopian (superlative)

The present chaos and misery of societies without functioning governments show the absurdity of the libertopian fantasy of freedom from government: We can only be free, prosperous, equal and safe under effective, accountable government.

2004, James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human Future, page xviii:

In U.S. history, 'libertopian' socialist enclaves were founded repeatedly and failed every time. Equity requires abatement of nuisance, and greedy rotten capitalists (working class freemen) will get stuck with the bill for cleaning up ansoc disasters, food and shelter for survivors, environmental reclamation, etc. Pray that ansocs don't experiment with nuclear power. One Chernobyl was enough.

2007, Wolf Devoon, Laissez Faire Law, page 200:

The persistent nonexistence of a long-planned libertarian colony of seasteading rafts (Robinson 2014), to pick one example from the list of unexecuted libertopian schemes, […]

2017, Ian Stoner, "Humans Should Not Colonize Mars", Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2017, page 339

(US, politics, derogatory) Related to, characteristic of, or espousing (a utopian or critically flawed strain of) libertarianism.


withering away of the state

en-noun

withering away of the state (uncountable)

Coined by Friedrich Engels in 1878 for his work, "Anti-Dühring", from Calque of German der Staat wird nicht „abgeschafft“, er stirbt ab (“the state is not "abolished", it atrophies”)

cal

(politics, Marxism, communism) The proposed situation where, in a classless society, people govern themselves as a commune without needing a government or law enforcement.


libertopia

But as long as your libertopia is imaginary, I guess you can't be bothered to imagine that it is imperfect.

1995 February 15, Mike Huben, “Re: LP Challenge to GOP”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

I have yet to see one libertopist explain how indigents have real rights in libertopia.

1997 November 18, BretCahill, “Who Reads Canned Nazispam?”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

In "libertopia" it would be easy for large corporation to institute large-scale oppression.

2003 May 4, Siobhan Medeiros, “Sorry Commies. Americans Cannot Be Charged For War Crimes”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, chiefly derogatory) A hypothetical utopian libertarian society or nation-state.


libertopist

PS: I don't think we can blame the "libertopists" for the existance^([sic]) of "transnational ruling bodies" that override local laws!

1998 November 18, J. Kendrick McPeters, “Re: Serious Question Regarding the "Social Contract"”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

First, libertopists exist only in your head.

2000 March 10, Jackson Harvey, “Re: Don't vote for John McCain!!!”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, derogatory) A libertarian and/or believer in the prospect of libertopia.


libertopic

en-adj

libertopic (comparative more libertopic, superlative most libertopic)

more libertopic (comparative)
most libertopic (superlative)

Or more precisely, the rich are duping the ignorant with libertopic economics.

1999 October 29, BretCahill, “Re: Libertarians and Wealth”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

There is no such thing as a libertopic document, since libertopians are a figment of your imagination.

1999 October 30, Jackson Harvey, “Re: Critiques of Libertarianism 5th Anniversary”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Reagan gave lip service to ibertopianism. His economy was a war economy, not a libertopic economy. His foreign policy was imperialist and militarist, not libertopic.

2001 May 13, Daedra Morrighan, “Re: Jefferson: Libertopianism Is A Disease”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):


(politics) Initialism of Group Four (“G4 nations, Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan, who support each other's attempts to secure a seat at the United Nations Security Council”).


freedom is not free

freedom ain't free (alternative)
freedom isn't free (alternative)
freedom's not free (alternative)

(chiefly US politics) For freedom to exist as a legal right in a country, it has to actively be fought for and protected (e.g. by the military).


fusilly

an inescutcheon fusilly in bend argent and azure


tarbucket

(US, military, slang) The shako traditionally worn by cadets of West Point as part of full dress.


Aunt Tabby

(feminism, historical, derogatory) A woman who opposes the feminist movement or regards it as too radical.


passive defense

en-noun

passive defense (countable and uncountable, plural passive defenses)

The construction of concrete revetments and hardened facilities, and the provision of chemical warfare defense equipment and clothing, all contribute to our passive defense capabilities.

1986, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 1987, page 317:

In this view, Soviet defensive measures—including civil defense and similar passive defenses—would effectively protect their leadership and its communication system, as well as reduce civilian casualties and protect important war-related industrial capacity.

1985, Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies, page 112:

(military) Forms of defense that offer protection without counterattacking.


radio car

Daniels: Can I get you out of a radio car? ... I'm short two men in ops and my follow-up squad couldn't make a case to save its life. You're too damned good to be humpin' calls.

2006 Sept. 10, David Simon & al., "Boys of Summer", The Wire, 00:23:10

(US law enforcement slang) Synonym of police car.


future endeavor

en-verb

future endeavor (third-person singular simple present future endeavors, present participle future endeavoring, simple past and past participle future endeavored)

future endeavors (present singular third-person)
future endeavoring (participle present)
future endeavored (participle past)
future endeavored (past)

From the fact that wrestling promotion WWE, when announcing a wrestler’s release, will “wish them all the best in their future endeavors.”

Creative couldn’t find anything for him to do, so they ended up future endeavoring him.

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling, slang) To release a wrestler from their contract.


bretessé

brettessé (alternative)
bretessée (alternative)
bretessy (alternative)

(heraldry) Embattled (as a bend, fesse, etc), especially if embattled-counterembattled on both sides with the projections coming opposite each other.


Manchinema

The Manchinema caucus of two is still demanding a lower price tag for reconciliation, and Democrats do not want the government to shut down on Friday.

2021 September 28, Jacqueline Alemany, Theodoric Meyer, “Vulnerable House Democrats say it really better be infrastructure week”, in The Washington Post:

2022 January 18, Maxine Joselow, “Climate advocates argue against breaking up BBB, call it a 'mistake' for Democrats and the planet”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics) U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.


Partygate

2021 December 8, “'Partygate' strains trust in Boris Johnson's government”, in Financial Times:

2021 December 8, “Partygate: Tory anger as Boris Johnson told he 'should resign' if he misled Parliament”, in The Telegraph:

(UK politics) The controversy surrounding members of the government holding parties in 2020 and 2021 during COVID-19 lockdowns, when gatherings were banned.


11 Bulletstopper

en-noun

11 Bulletstopper (plural 11 Bulletstoppers)

Army recruits assigned to the 11-B MOS, or “11-Bravo”—sometimes called “11-Bang-Bang” or even “11-Bulletstopper”— became infantrymen, highly likely to go to Vietnam.

[2009, Carol Reardon, “Vietnam Military Personnel”, in Mitchell K. Hall, editor, Vietnam War Era, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 45:

(US, military slang, derogatory) Synonym of 11 Bang-Bang.


RepubliKKKan

RepubliKKKans (plural)
republiKKKan (alternative)
republikkkan (alternative)

(US politics, derogatory) A Republican with ideological leanings similar to those of a Ku Klux Klan member.


DemoKKKrat

DemoKKKrats (plural)
demoKKKrat (alternative)
demokkkrat (alternative)

(US politics, derogatory) A Democrat with ideological leanings similar to those of a Ku Klux Klan member.


Repucrat

Correct. I believe I introduced the error. As SC wrote, though,
the Repucrat majority in the Senate was not a very large one, and
they did not have a majority in the House, whence spending bills
originate.

1996 August 14, Giovanni 8, “Voodoo versus Greenspan: wont work”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US politics) Republican while espousing typically Democratic positions.


Repucrat

But hearing Daniel "Mush Mouth" Schorr whine
about the awful terrible negative campaigning by the Repucrats after hearing
your darling radical leftist Lawton Chiles' slime campaign is enough to
make nearly any one sick.

1994 November 7, John G. Otto, “Clean Up Your Act”, in alt.radio.networks.npr (Usenet):

It's where I live, too. And yes, I am. And I did so when Clinton was
president, and I will continue to do so when whatever Demoblican or
Repucrat who is next succeeds Bush.

2002 September 1, Sean Carroll, “[OT] Attack Iraq? Yea or Nay?”, in alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise (Usenet):

Bloomberg is not a Republican; he is a repucrat. Recall that Bloomberg was
a demolican until they said they did not want him as the mayoral candidate
for New York city.

2003 August 5, redclay, “Radio Daze”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

Repucrat or Demoblican, there's not a whole lot of difference...

2004 September 4, wer...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, “Arnie and the socialists”, in soc.culture.german (Usenet):

(US politics) A Republican person espousing typically Democratic positions.


consolidated fund

consolidated fund (plural consolidated funds)

(politics) In the Westminster system, the main bank account of the government, funded by general taxation and not earmarked for a specific purpose.


IHT

(taxation, UK) Initialism of inheritance tax.


libtoid

From lib + -oid, likely influenced by libtard.

Imagine, libtoids who cannot differentiate the difference between civil crime and international terrorism.

2010 February 2, Grumpy AuContraire, “Re: Wingnuts are afraid of a single man !”, in houston.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-25:

The first one, when the earth was a flaming mass of boiling magma. Libtoids seem to forget.

2015 September 26, mightyjoe, “HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD?”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-25:

So, even if the American Leftoid Libtoid idiots don't recognize what an amazing President they have (same could be said for those stupid pricks (May, et al) in the UK, too) the rest of world most certainly does.

2018 June 13, Willsy, “Even more Win...”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-25:

(Internet slang, derogatory, politics) A liberal.


JDAM

/ˈd͡ʒeɪˌdæm/

“The crater and surrounding damage is also not consistent with a JDAM aerial bomb. The hole on the ground occurred from kinetic energy.”

2023 October 18, Manisha Ganguly, Emma Graham-Harrison, Jason Burke, Elena Morresi, Ashley Kirk, quoting Marc Garlasco, “Al-Ahli Arab hospital: piecing together what happened as Israel insists militant rocket to blame”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Joint Direct Attack Munition
w:Joint Direct Attack Munition

(military) Acronym of Joint Direct Attack Munition.


miting de avance

From Tagalog miting de abanse, from Spanish mitin de avance, the first word of which derives from English meeting.

(Philippine politics) A final campaign rally done by candidates of one political party usually the night before an election.


Toriel

(Oxford University slang, derogatory, UK politics) Oriel College, Oxford.


sole chamber

(government, rare) The single legislative chamber of a unicameral legislature.


sole house

(government, rare) The single legislative house of a unicameral legislature.


Cunstitution

Blend of cunt + Constitution, implying that the constitution is a worthless document.

My question was to ask if there were scholars
who had studied such documents and understood
why they worded it in what seems to be an ackward^([sic]) way,
and what they meant by doing so.
It does not compare to the clarity of the Cunstitution writers.

2000 September 26, Bob Crownfield, “It struck me....”, in rec.scuba (Usenet):

Which explains almost everything we hear on TV in regards to guns
and our rights and the Cunstitution.

2001 June 14, The-Trainers, “Questions About Joining the NRA”, in aus.politics.guns (Usenet):

George Orwell appears to have written their Cunstitution.

2004 November 19, Ack, “Arab media says 400 US soldiers killed in Fallujah”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):

Dude, it's like the friggin Cunstitution.

2007 April 29, Captain Tripps, “Hey VOR”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool (Usenet):

(slang, humorous, derogatory, vulgar, US politics) The Constitution.


Democreep

Democreeps (plural)
democreep (alternative)

Remember The Clarence Thomas hearings before the Senate? Democreeps could not STAND to have a Conservative African American on the Supreme Court.
Result: All out war on Judge Thomas. Anita Hill was resurrected and given the "victim" treatment by the Democreeps, the press and the NOW coven of witches.

1999 February 14, Linus F. Zimmerman, “"You stupid fuckers LOST!!! Bwahaahaahaahaahaa!!!!!!"”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Senate democreep Torricelli, guilty of the same felony crimes that earned Traficant an 8 year jail term, has received an "admonishment" from his fellow democreep Senators and spineless Republicans.

2002 July 31, keith, “democreep Torricelli avoids jail, gets pathetic slap on wrist”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Gov. Jesse Ventura said it was sick. DemoCreeps were dancing on Wellstone's grave.

2002 October 31, Ray, “Wellstone Memorial Turns Into a Beautiful & Sickening DemoCreep Hate Fest!”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

How do you think she's going to pay for her rehashed version of Nationalized Social Healthcare? Democreeps have never met a tax they didn't like.

2007 September 22, Broom Hilda, “05-07 Dakota 3.9 Fuel milage info”, in alt.autos.dodge.trucks (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

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


flaming onion

(military, slang, historical) A 37 mm Hotchkiss revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army at the beginning of World War I.

Allied pilots feared and loathed these, because a hit from a flaming onion instantly turned an aeroplane into an inferno.

1985, Robert Harrison, Aviation Lore in Faulkner, page 116:

(military, slang, historical) The flare or tracer ammunition fired by this weapon.


made-wine

(UK, taxation) An alcoholic drink made from fermentation, other than grape wine, beer, black beer, spirits or cider, for the purposes of excise tax.


radlib

He's a radlib, not a leftist.

(Internet slang, derogatory, politics) A progressive person who supports free market capitalism.

Radlibs flee from facts because facts unmask them as the ideologically bankrupt bunch that they so clearly are. Radlibs are merely liars. The whole rotten bunch. We know this. Some may have cause to reflect back upon the blunt reference of the use of the word "liar." It is the correct word. It is not inappropriate. Indeed radlibs certainly should not take offense at the word. They should EMBRACE it. Calling a radlib a liar is not an insult. How do you insult a pig by calling it a pig? Radlibs are not bound by a common morality. They say that any crime, including lying, is ok if it advances the cause of their socialism.

1997 November 8, Thomas Odell, “Radlibs are Liars. Clinton has NO economic policy. He hasn't needed one. Here's why.”, in alt.fan.ronald-reagan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

You cant please radlibs, you can only get rid of them one election at a time like we have been for 11 years.

2005 February 6, Johnny Latley, “Re: You voted for him; you live with his cuts .....”, in ca.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

BAd News for America is Godd News for Radlibs. Good News for America is Bad news for Radlibs

2005 April 21, Dumbocrat@ghetto.com Another Jerry Springer Democrat On Crack, “DOW CLOSES UP 206 POINTS! RADLIBS PISSSED !”, in alt.california (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

the truth!: radlibs who hate america plot with chinese commies to control u.s. economy

2008 March 17, mm, “the truth!: radlibs plot with chinese commies to control u.s. economy and bear stearns”, in nm.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

(Internet slang, derogatory, politics) A radical liberal.


conservaturd

What a typical fuckwitted conservaturd

2001 February 20, rose...@rapidnet.com, “Bill is Fourth Best President of All Time”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

Yeah, yeah, you're a pervert maniac Conservaturd. You hate everybody.

2010 July 16, Ray Fischer, “Anyone Caught Without A US Birth Certificate On Them In Arizona, White or Not, Belongs In Prison”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

I learned long ago that the secret to winning over a conservaturd is greed.

2016 August 29, Nathan Hale, “Gullible Low IQ Trumpist Righties Are Getting Their ‘News’ From A Syrian Refugee Posing As A ’ Bikini Girl!..”, in soc.retirement (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

So a conservaturd who claims to be a patriot willingly defects to a communist country. I remember when comunism was considered enemy.

2021 November 8, Baxter, “Conservaturd "patriot"”, in or.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

(Internet slang, derogatory, vulgar, politics) A conservative.


lefturd

There you go, confusing lefturds with inconvenient truths.

2009 February 16, Harold Burton, “Bill is Fourth Best President of All Time”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

2009 August 15, Obama-Gestapo Care Is Dead, “LefTurd Ass-Wipe Rag Huffington Post Admits That Blue Dog DemocRATS Have Killed Obama-Gestapo Care”, in alt.politics.media (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

Translated to: I do not need warrant or sanction but "Lefturd Retards" (whatever this means) need it from me.

2010 April 17, Zerkon, “What The Lefturd Retards Have Yet to Learn”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

Betcha that Jobs guy collects food stamps like the rest of the lefturds.

2010 April 22, mrbawana2u, “Apple boycotts foxgate”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

Of course the fact that McVeigh was an atheist is totally lost on you lefturds. Don't you recognize the professional work of a fellow colleague?

2011 July 24, Frank Bascomb, “Tea Party admirer kills 92 people in Norway”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-02:

(Internet slang, derogatory, politics) A person with left-wing political views.


righturd

2005 March 15, The Pretzel, “How much falling will the dollar do Righturds?”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:

Apparantly King George has forgotten bin Laden. He even said once that bin Laden wasn't a priority. But still crickets from you Righturds. So do the American people know more than the King? Hint: Rhetorical question.

2007 July 20, Corky K, “Zombies on Parade”, in seattle.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:

Its good to see you righturds are living in the here and now instead of some weird fifty year old fantasy world.

2009 June 20, the_pc_jellllybean!!.!!!!, “Zombies on Parade”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:

The Righturds don't want to use tax money for Social services benefiting American citizens and bash Obama at every turn when he does.

2013 May 4, Moder@tor, “Ok Righturds, try 'splainin this....”, in seattle.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:

(Internet slang, derogatory, politics) A person with right-wing political views.


conservaloon

Typical Chicken Little conservaloon logic is the slippery slope. The logic goes like this: Since the courts wouldn't let the conservaloons "rescue" the shell of Terry Schiavo, that means on the horizon, if and when any of us reach 80 our police state gummint will euthanize us and send our carcases to the soylent green factory.

2005 May 10, jls, “Re: Police State ... less than five years..”, in alt.appalachian (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:

Hitler and Prescott Bush were conservaloonz.

2007 September 15, Woodsman, “HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST - Modern Leftism - Its similarities to Hitler and his "highly respected (policies ) by many of the Muslims of his day"”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:

You have no facts. Truth is not a friend to conservaloons like you. Reality favors liberals.

2010 June 20, Iarnrod, “Great Orators of The Democratic Party”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03:

(Internet slang, derogatory, politics) A conservative.


NMD

w:United States national missile defense

(US, military) Initialism of National Missile Defense.


bounding mine

(military) A land mine which, when activated, uses a small propellant charge to toss the main body of the mine up to approximately waist height before exploding, in order to more efficiently injure its target.


HMB

It has taken 22 years for experts to prove His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour, renamed Lord Sandwich, was one of 13 ships sunk in Newport Harbour in 1778.

2022, Charis Chang, “How did the HMB Endeavour end up near the coast of Rhode Island in the United States?”, in news.com.a (Usenet):

(initialism, nautical, military, UK, historical) His/Her Majesty's Bark


murder book

(law enforcement) A case file of a murder investigation.


MLRS

During Operation Desert Storm, government records show that the U.S. Army fired more than 17,200 unguided MLRS rockets and 32 of the larger ATACMS guided missiles at Iraqi forces.

2022 June 2, John Ismay, “What Are ‘Artillery Rockets,’ and Why Is the U.S. Sending Them to Ukraine?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Multiple Launch Rocket System
w:M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System

(military) Initialism of Multiple Launch Rocket System.


Waibling

(historical, politics) Synonym of Ghibelline.


baizuo

Borrowed from Mandarin 白左 (báizuǒ, “white left”), derived from 白種人／白种人 (báizhǒngrén, “White person”) + 左派 (zuǒpài, “left-wing”).

Baizuo (literally “white left”) has been around for 10 years or so—but it rose to greater prominence in the wake of Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency in 2017. It means something like “woke”—as said in a sneering tone by conservative critics of progressives.

2021 March 27, Frankie Huang, “‘Baizuo’ Is a Chinese Word Conservatives Love”, in Foreign Policy:

(slang, derogatory, Internet slang, politics) a leftist, usually from Western countries or of White descent, especially one who is seen as condescending or ignorant.


Ghazwa-e-Hind

Partly re-Arabized form of Urdu غزوہ ہند (ġazvā-e hind), from Classical Persian غزوهٔ هند (ġazwa-yi hind), from Arabic غزوة الهند (“battle of Hind [India]”).

der

Gajwa-e-Hind (alternative)
Gazwa-e-Hind (alternative)
Ghazwat ul Hind (alternative)

(South Asia, politics) Alleged attempts by Islamist groups to conquer the Republic of India.


ENR

(politics) Initialism of European New Right.


Sanatani

Sanatanis (plural)
sanatani (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सनातनी (sanātanī, “of the eternal [way], Hindu”).

lbor

(India, Hinduism, religious slur, politics) a traditionalist Hindu


AVGP

(military, aviation) Abbreviation of aviation group.

armoured vehicle
armoured vehicle#English

(military, automotive) Abbreviation of armoured vehicle, general purpose.


sarkari Muslim

The usage of sarkari as a negative term originated from Khalistani supporters who condemned Sikhs who supported the government of India. It was later adopted by Muslim activists and nationalists within India.

Shahbagi

equivalent term in Bangladesh used for liberals and opponents of Islam

(India, derogatory, slang, politics, religious slur) A Muslim who rejects some Islamic beliefs and norms, a liberal Muslim.


libbu

(India, politics, derogatory, vulgar, Internet slang) A liberal, a leftist.

raita

a conservative Hindu who does not support Hindutva


BTG

In the summer of 2014, at least thirteen BTGs and elements of five SPETSNAZ units were poised on the Ukrainian border.³⁶

2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 42:

(military) Initialism of battalion tactical group.


superwarhead

superwarheads (plural)
super warhead (alternative)

And he said the Russians would need a "superwarhead" on their own minuteman-type weapon in order to be successful.

1961, Associated Press Clippings File Europe Disorders 1961-09-01, Press Association Inc., page 2:

A thousand times more powerful than the A-bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, this superwarhead would be capable of imposing great blast or overpressure on a very large area.

1970, Ralph E. Lapp, Arms Beyond Doubt: The Tyranny of Weapons Technology, Cowles Book Company, →ISBN, page 59:

Approval for its development may have been facilitated by Khrushchev’s interest in large-yield "terror weapons," for whose delivery the SS-9 was ideally suited. (Khrushchev boasted publicly about the Soviet possession of such weapons and the atmospheric thermonuclear test series conducted in August-September 1961 included the explosion of a superwarhead with a yield of approximately 50 megatons.)

1977, The Military in Contemporary Soviet Politics: An Institutional Analysis, Praeger, →ISBN, page 190:

However, every smaller terrorist state has its own superwarheads, happily sold to them by the big powers' armament industries. The problem of the deterrent has merely been displaced to the irresponsible and the fanatical.

1990, Christine Brooke-Rose, Verbivore, Carcanet, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:

(rare, military) An extremely destructive and powerful warhead.


line of contact

en-noun

line of contact (plural lines of contact)

Both sides face off along a fixed 250-mile “border”, or line of contact, which snakes across Ukraine’s Donbas region.

2021 December 10, Luke Harding, “‘Nobody wants to be Putin’s slave’: on the Ukraine frontline as tensions rise”, in The Guardian:

(military) The demarcation between two or more given armies, whether they are allied or belligerent.


Trumpoid

Likewise, could the Washington Post and New York Times, which leaked various versions of the claim , have motives (both papers are Clintonist rather than Trumpoid, and the Post has for years been an especially keen supporter of the Syrian intervention that lies at the core of the current tension between Washington and Moscow)?

2016 December 17, J. Nielsen, “Artan`s klage”, in dk.politik (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

(US politics, Internet slang) Pertaining to Donald Trump.


Trumpoid

However, the IP is currently in disarray, split between the Buchananites and the Trumpoids. Even though Trump is not in the presidential race, the Trumpoids would prefer to endorse no-one for president and concentrate on state politics. Trump has recently started working on behalf of Giuliani to sieze the IP nomination.

2000 May 12, Alex Elliott, “Putting the "head" back in "Campaign Headquarters"”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

One of our local guru type pigeon keepers is a Trumpoid no masker...the same guy who defied the governor's order and kept his barbershop open when everything was closed down...

2020 October 26, LaRocca (Tony), “Final Report 70th GSC”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

The USA has far too many Trumpoid anti-vax idiots to make herd immunity a reality.

2021 May 8, Omni Vore, “Opinion | We'll Have Herd Immunity by April”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

(US politics, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A supporter of Donald Trump.


GPEW

Green Party of England and Wales
w:Green Party of England and Wales

(UK politics) Initialism of Green Party of England and Wales.


establishment Republican

establishment Republican (plural establishment Republicans)

Some so-called establishment Republicans, alarmed by the rise of the ethnonationalist wing of the party, comfort themselves with the belief that this movement can be domesticated, absorbed into the traditional coalition with its sharp edges sanded off.

2017 October 21, Peter Wehner, “Going Against the Republican Herd”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US politics) A moderate or liberal member of the US Republican Party.


German 88

(colloquial, World War II, military, historical) A WWII German 88mm anti-aircraft artillery multi-purpose field gun.


Schroderization

From German Schröder + English -isation (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something); see further at Schröderization.

(politics) Alternative spelling of Schröderization.


Jesusland

From Jesus + -land, implying that Republican states are historically and traditionally religious.

(slang, derogatory, humorous, US politics) A collective term describing the numerous US states who typically vote for Republican candidates in US elections.

red state

referring to states that overwhelmingly support Republican politicians


EUCOM

(US, military) Acronym of European Command.


USEUCOM

United States European Command
w:United States European Command

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


NORTHCOM

(US, military) Acronym of Northern Command.


USNORTHCOM

United States Northern Command
w:United States Northern Command

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


LANTFLT

(US, military) Acronym of Atlantic Fleet.


USLANTFLT

(US, military) Acronym of United States Atlantic Fleet.


USAFE

(US, military) Acronym of United States Armed Forces Entertainment.


Pootin

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

Blend of poo + Putin, or simply a phonetic respelling of Putin.

the notion that anything pootin says is worth listening to...
is a form of self-delusion...

2017 April 8, abelard, “pootin will tell any lie with a flat face”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

‘Tsar Pootin’ was pissed that America wasn’t […] treating Russia as an equal partner.

2017, The Republic: Traitor, R.R. Quaggiato:

Windopws^([sic]) is full of swiss cheese. And Pootin's government workers are rebelling over the threat to their grannies because they love Linux more than grannies, but grannies are more important than Pootin. Novachooking Pootin and anyone who mentions Windopws^([sic]) is one option being considered by rebels in St. Pootersberg.

2018 October 20, 7, “Linux threatens to destabilize Pootin's government over Novachooking grannies”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

St. Petersberg is to be cleared of all Linux users unless they
want their knobs novachooked and the city is to be renamed St. Pootiberg
demands Pootin who is distant relative of Raspootin.

2018 November 10, I, “Pootin kills Muscovites accusing them of being Linux users, threatens St. Petersberg users with Novachook”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

Pootin is always threatening the planet with nuclear annihilation, but
it may not come in the form of rockets but rather typical Russian stupidity.

2022 August 5, JeSSe, “ANOTHER nuclear power plant ready to cook thanks to Pootin and his Orcs”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(politics, slang, derogatory, vulgar) Vladimir Putin.


pals battalion

pals battalions (plural)
Pals Battalion (alternative)
Pals battalion (alternative)

From pals + battalion, from the sense that one's pals would fight along with them.

(UK, military, historical) A group of men who were friends before being enlisted, all of whom were placed into a single battalion in order to incentivize enlistment in the British Army during World War I.


thermobaric weapon

thermobaric weapon (plural thermobaric weapons)

From being a weapon which produces heat (“thermo-”) and pressure (“baric”).

(weaponry) A weapon of a class of bombs, which causes a large explosion, with effects similar to a nuclear blast, by having an explosion, flash of heat, shockwave, producing a vacuum, and vacuum collapse pressure wave. Typically produced by aerosolizing a fuel throughout the air, and setting it alight, producing a detonation, that consumes all the oxygen in the region.


IFAK

(military) Initialism of individual first aid kit.


Putinise

en-verb

Putinise (third-person singular simple present Putinises, present participle Putinising, simple past and past participle Putinised)

Putinises (present singular third-person)
Putinising (participle present)
Putinised (participle past)
Putinised (past)
Putinize (alternative)

(politics, transitive, somewhat derogatory) To take over power employing allegedly undemocratic means.


Putinite

(politics) A supporter of Putin or of his policies.


MFR

According to the MFR, DEA [Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration] reported at the November 19 meeting that Jorge Morales was awaiting trial in Miami, along with 13 other defendants, on federal charges of engaging in a Continuous Criminal Enterprise.

1998 October 8, Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General, Report of Investigation: Allegations of Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States, Volume II: The Contra Story, 96-0143-IG, Southern Front Contras:

Hell, I don't even know, because no one is telling me anything. Without those MFRs my case is a bust.

2021, M. B. Traven, Rory Jaines, Sohrab Noshirvani, 1:28:35 from the start, in Kevin Macdonald, director, The Mauritanian (motion picture), spoken by Stuart Couch (Benedict Cumberbatch), STXfilms:

memorandum for the record
memorandum for the record#English

memorandum for record
memorandum for record#English

memo for the record
memo for the record#English

(US military) Acronym of memorandum for the record, memorandum for record, memo for the record, or memo for record.


Belgian Gate

Omaha Beach was shielded by about 3,700 obstacles, including 450 ramps, 2,000 stakes, 1,050 Czech hedgehogs, and 200 Belgian Gates. These followed a standard pattern.

2013, Steven Zaloga, The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 123:

(military, historical) A heavy steel fence, typically mounted on concrete rollers, used as a mobile antitank obstacle during World War II.


Dashnak

Dashnaks (plural)
Tashnag (alternative)
Tashnak (alternative)

Borrowed from Armenian դաշնակ (dašnak). The forms with T- are from the Western Armenian pronunciation.

(politics) A member of Dashnaktsutyun, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, an Armenian nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890.


Banderism

(politics) The political movement or philosophy of Stepan Bandera (1909–1959), a Ukrainian nationalist politician.


Melnykite

From the name of OUN leader Andriy Melnyk + -ite.

Coordinate term: Banderite

(historical, politics) A follower of the moderate faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Andriy Melnyk (Ukrainian military leader)


Petliurite

(historical, politics) A follower of Symon Petliura.


Hetmanite

(historical, politics) A supporter or follower of the United Hetman Organization, a Ukrainian conservative monarchist organization.


Obiden

Obiden super fans, we've got amazing news for you. If, like us, you were a bit scared distance would put a damper on President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's epic bromance, it's time to cast those fears aside. The iconic duo is still the best of friends, even if they aren't working together anymore.

2017 May 18, Andrea González-Ramírez, “Obama & Biden Are Still The Best Of Friends”, in Refinery29:

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The political union of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The continuation of the policies of Barack Obama under the administration of Joe Biden.


Doobon coat

From Hebrew דובון (literally “little bear”).

(military) An Israeli military winter coat, designed to be able to stay in cold temperatures for long periods of time.