rangekeeping

(military, historical) The calculation of how to direct gunfire at a target, involving range, bearing, and other factors.


GAR

He was a Yankee and they say he would not hang a man who had been in the G.A.R.

Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army of the Republic#English

(US, historical, military, mid-19th century) Initialism of Grand Army of the Republic.


dogfall

dogfalls (plural)
dog-fall (alternative)

Lucky Ned Pepper said, “What is your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?”

(wrestling) A fall in which both wrestlers touch the ground at the same time; hence, in extended use, any tie or stalemate.


canting arms

(heraldry) A heraldic bearing in the form of a visual pun.


GUBU

An acronym for grotesque, unprecedented, bizarre, unbelievable, all words used by Taoiseach Charles Haughey to describe the discovery of a murderer as a guest in the house of Patrick Connolly, Attorney General of Ireland in 1982.

The problem for the taoiseach is that he is increasingly being called on to defend his administration as the GUBUs loom before it.

In one handwritten memo, the writer refers to the Garda report in a scathing and sarcastic manner and calls it 'a hysterical attempt to cover up a GUBU'.

2006, Gerry O'Carroll, The Sheriff: A Detective's Story, Mainstream Publishing Company:

The GUBU had been a GUBU alright, no doubt about that, but Mr Haughey was there and the GUBU was taken care of […]

2013, John Horgan, Great Irish Reportage, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

(Ireland, politics) A political scandal.


culturism

en-noun

culturism (countable and uncountable, plural culturisms)

(politics, uncountable) A right-wing political movement that opposes multiculturalism and promotes Western culture.


BoJo

(UK politics, slang) The British politician and journalist Boris Johnson (born 1964), Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022.


decarchy

decarchies (plural)
decadarchy (alternative)
dekadarchy (alternative)
dekarchy (alternative)

From Ancient Greek δεκαρχία (dekarkhía), from δεκα- (deka-, “deca-: ten”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule”). Equivalent to dec- + -archy.

(politics) A government of ten people, especially (historical) various Greek councils of ten men


Brexiteer

/ˌbɹɛksɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/

From Brexit + -eer, playing on musketeer and the novel The Three Musketeers.

After Ken Clarke's "Charge of Light Brigade" hit on Brexiteers in @Daily_Telegraph, Defra SoS likened to Lord Raglan in #CAP reform debate

2013 June 18, Huw Irranca-Davies, “@huw4ogmore”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-16:

Whether you are a Europhile or a Brexiteer, it’s hard to see what’s not to like about a market-driven initiative that aims to pull down barriers to more investment across Europe.

2015 October 4, William Wright, “A plan from Brussels where Britain can take the lead”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2018-11-09:

Denying he [David Cameron] was a "closet Brexiteer", as his former aide Steve Hilton has claimed, the PM told reporters: "I withdraw absolutely nothing I've previously said. Britain is an amazing country. We can find our way whatever the British people choose.

2016 May 27, “David Cameron: I am not a closet Brexiteer”, in The Herald, Glasgow:

A leading Tory Brexiteer has insisted quitting the EU does not mean the numbers of people coming to Britain will be slashed – and claimed Vote Leave never said it would.

2016 June 25, Tim Sculthorpe, “Tory Brexiteer Dan Hannan insists quitting the EU does NOT mean dramatic cuts to the number of immigrants coming to Britain”, in Daily Mail, London, archived from the original on 2016-06-26:

For Brexiteers in the UK, a free trade deal with the US was one of several promises made before and after the 2016 referendum that have failed to come to fruition.

2023 July 8, Jo Harper, “UK-US: What's happened to their free trade deal?”, in dw.com:

[Margaret] Thatcher was no Brexiteer. She was a strong supporter of the Single Market and thought that the [Channel] tunnel would help cement it.

2023 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “Hope springs eternal for greater use of the Channel Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 999, page 26:

(UK politics) Someone who supports Brexit, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.

Completing the Three Brexiteers is Boris Johnson, the UK's new Foreign Secretary.

2016 July 14, Christian May, “May and the three Brexiteers lead Britain”, in City A.M., London:

For newspapers with only the Olympics to write about during August, the squabbling "Three Brexiteers" – the senior ministers supposedly tasked with executing the will of the British people to remove us from the European Union – came as a gift.

2016 September 7, Simon Heffer, “The Three Brexiteers”, in New Statesman, London, published 9–15 September 2016, archived from the original on 2018-10-20:

She [British Prime Minister Theresa May] urges people to get behind the team of ministers working for Brexit: David Davis, Liam Fox, Priti Patel and Boris Johnson. (It seems Patel has now been co-opted as a fourth Brexiteer.)

2016 October 2, Andrew Sparrow, “May says workers’ rights will be protected as long as she is PM – Politics live”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-01-06:

That was until she announced that Boris Johnson would have to share Chevening, the foreign secretary’s grace-and-favour country retreat, with his fellow cabinet Brexiteers, David Davis and Liam Fox.

2016 October 31, Matt Chorley, “Bluster, bickering and three Brexiteers: Stage is set for a satire made in heaven: Yes Minister creator finds comic gold among Chevening’s trio of new tenants”, in The Times, London, archived from the original on 2017-01-08:

It's worth remembering all the Three Brexiteers, who campaigned to Leave, are still in place.

2017 June 11, Anoosh Chakelian, “Government reshuffle: Who’s who in Theresa May’s new team?: While attempting to cling on to power, the Prime Minister is making some new appointments”, in New Statesman, London, archived from the original on 2017-08-15:

At the moment, our future is being decided by Theresa May’s desperate attempts to remain as prime minister (and to do this she has to kowtow to the wishes of the three Brexiteers Boris Johnson, David Davis, and Jacob Rees-Mogg). The future, therefore, is not being decided by us.

2018 August 11, Athian Akec, “As a 15-year-old youth MP, I can tell you why ignoring our young people on the final Brexit deal will be a disaster”, in The Independent, London, archived from the original on 2018-08-15:

(UK politics) Usually in plural: a holder of any of the posts in the British Cabinet tasked with negotiating the country's exit from the European Union.


ratfuck

en-verb

ratfuck (third-person singular simple present ratfucks, present participle ratfucking, simple past and past participle ratfucked)

ratfucks (present singular third-person)
ratfucking (participle present)
ratfucked (participle past)
ratfucked (past)
rat-fuck (alternative)
rat fuck (alternative)

From rat + fuck. Metaphorical use arose c. 1950 in the United States, likely from college slang; see Wikipedia.

(vulgar, politics) To interfere in an election.


SWP

Socialist Workers Party
w:Socialist Workers Party

(politics) Initialism of Socialist Workers Party.


government bond

en-noun

government bond (plural government bonds)

(finance, government) A bond issued by a national government, generally with a promise to pay periodic interest payments and to repay the face value on the maturity date.


red box

gray-box testing
red box
white box (software engineering)

Downing Street has rejected suggestions that David Cameron might have caused a security breach by briefly leaving his official ministerial red box unaccompanied on the table of a train carriage.

2013 September 9, Ben Quinn, “No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) A secure briefcase-like box used by ministers in the British government to carry their documents.

(US, military) A safe located at a nuclear installation containing launch codes.


electoralism

From electoral + -ism. First used in the transitional sense by Terry Karl, professor of political science at Stanford University.

(politics) A state of partial transition from authoritarian rule toward democratic rule, in which the regime conducts the electoral aspects of democratic governance in a relatively free and fair manner.

“In December, 1906, […] the great obstacle between the Confederation General du Travail and the Socialist party, the only organized forces of the working-class, was the electoralism which dominated the party. Today, in 1912, the great obstacle is the anti-parliamentarism which rages within the C. G. T.”

1912 July, William E. Bohn, “La Guerre Sociale not Anti-Political”, in Charles H. Kerr, editor, The International Socialist Review, volume XIII, number 1, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, page 82, quoting Gustave Hervé, translated from French:

Indeed, in 1986 the movement had already suffered a split with the southern traditionalists who opposed the twin policy of electoralism and violence. Ruair O Brdaigh became the leader of the breakaway Republican Sinn Fin […]

2000 Fall, Michael Von Tangen Page, M. L. R. Smith, “War by Other Means: The Problem of Political Control in Irish Republican Strategy”, in Armed Forces & Society, volume 27, number 1, Transaction Publishers:

Yet in the events at Llanelli can be seen aspects of the Great Unrest which went beyond the limits of electoralism, pointing the way towards an insurrectionary challenge both to state power and to the inertia of the reformist leadership in the trade unions and the Labour Party.

2011 June 28, Tim Evans, “The Great Unrest and a Welsh town”, in International Socialism, number 131:

(politics) The strategy of electing politicians into a representative government in order to create political change.


matrophobia

Coined by the poet Lynn Sukenick; equivalent to matri- + -phobia.

(feminism) The fear of becoming like one's mother.


cold weapon

From cold + weapon, possibly a calque of Russian холо́дное ору́жие (xolódnoje orúžije, “cold weapon”), from холо́дное (xolódnoje) (the nominative neuter form of холо́дный (xolódnyj, “cold”)) + ору́жие (orúžije, “arm, weapon; weaponry”): see the 1876 quotation.

calque

холо́дное ору́жие

A fencing-room in which twenty or thirty couples of men are practising, is a fair illustration of a mélée with cold weapons.

1863 January 17, “How to Make Soldiers”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. [...] With which is Incorporated Household Words, volume VIII, number 195, London: […] C. Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 446, column 1:

The most effective weapons in the hands of the Caucasians was the sword, or as the Russians call it "the cold weapon" ["khalodnoye orúdiye," as opposed to firearms "agniovoye orúdiye"], the use of which, in hand-to-hand fight, was their special forte.

1876, Hugo Stumm, “The Field of Operations and the Russian Resources of Operations in General”, in F. Henvey, P. Mosa, transl., The Russian Campaign against Khiva in 1873. […], part I, Calcutta, West Bengal: Foreign Department Press, →OCLC, section II (The Russian Bases of Operations in Central Asia), page 157:

Pistols, carbines and musketoons were the firearms of the cavalry; a sword or sabre the cold weapon.

1890, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, “Army Organization and Tactics. Early Seventeenth to Early Eighteenth Century.”, in Gustavus Adolphus: A History of the Art of War from Its Revival after the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, […] (Great Captains), volume II, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 571:

There are perhaps more variations of the dao than there are of any other cold weapon.

2009, Zhang Yun, “The History and Features of Dao”, in The Complete Taiji Dao: The Art of the Chinese Saber, Berkeley, Calif.: Blue Snake Books, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 27:

(weaponry) A weapon that does not use explosives or fire.


Bushtard

Notice Bushtards have given up on even trying to defend Bush's intelligence and just resort to mud-slinging? That debate pretty much sealed the deal on his intellectual capabilities.

2004 October 4, Tim Farrow, “Undecided voter?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

And our life isn't exactly revered by the Bushtards.

2006 September 10, zakintosh, “They're back, with a vengenace!”, in Windmills of My Mind:

The Bushtards have gone to great lengths to change the balance of wealth in this country for a result like this to not be intentional.

2007 March 12, Robert Peard, “The Bushtard War On The Poor: Thousands Lose Medicaide.”, in The Conservatard:

Iran is nothing more than an excuse for the Bushtards to yell for another conquest.

2007 April 3, Chad Bryant, “Iran kidnaps British soldiers... and it's all the US's fault!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Of course, the corruption and incompetence of Bush does not justify the corruption and incompetence of Obama, but please try to acknowledge the former's failures before ripping into his successor. (This is unnecessary for me, since I freely criticized Bush and called for his impeachment, but you are a Bushtard.)

2013 April 6, Dänk 42Ø, “Re: ANOTHER Green Company Goes Down - Thanks Obama for Wasting Our Money”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

Tomorrow, Donald Trump should win Florida eliminating the last of these Bushtards (Marc-go Rubio) that irritate me so much from consideration for the Republican Party.

2016 March 16, “The Enemy of My Enemy”, in Voltaire Politics:

Liberals knew powell was full of crap WAAAAAY back in 2001, when trumptards like bigdog were bushtards and wetting their diapers over every word that came out of the texas tard's warmongering ass.

2021 October 19, Molly Bolt, “RINO Colin Powell kicks the bucket”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of George W. Bush.


odd bod

odd bods (plural)
odd-bod (alternative)
oddbod (alternative)

Oh I know: you're the odd bod. Of course, that's it, you're the odd bod.

2001, Norman Hampson, Not Really what You'd Call a War, →ISBN, page 111:

They had landed without the odd bod. They worked out that he must have bailed out pretty sharpish when Teddy first ordered them to abandon J-Jig.

2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 292:

We are being asked for a maximum effort sometime over the next few nights, so if one of the other crew are short, then one of your chaps will have to fill in as an odd bod.

2015, Martin Whittle, Just Another Trip, →ISBN:

(UK, military slang) A temporary crew member who joins a mission with an established crew.


red chamber

He hopes his life story – of the illiterate ex-hockey coach turned Conservative senator – can inspire others. Jacques Demers . . . is slated for a seat in the red chamber, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today.

2009 August 27, “Former NHL coach Demers headed to Senate”, in The Star, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 2016-04-20:

Harper announced Friday he will not appoint senators to a red chamber that already has 22 vacancies as long as the government can continue passing legislation.

2015 July 24, Jason Fekete, “Stephen Harper says he will not appoint any more senators to ‘unaccountable’ upper house”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 2016-04-20:

Seven new senators will soon take their seats in the Red Chamber, appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

2016 March 18, “How might an independent Senate work?”, in Macleans, Canada, retrieved 2016-04-20:

(Canada, politics, informal, sometimes capitalized) The assembly hall in which the Senate of Canada convenes; (metonymic) the Senate of Canada itself.


tactical assembly area

en-noun

tactical assembly area (plural tactical assembly areas)

(military) An area within an operational area or battlefield (usually in a sheltered location), where a military unit assembles and makes final preparations for an attack before moving to the line of departure, which is the starting line for the attack.


RWNJ

(derogatory, politics) Initialism of right-wing nut job.


overpowder

[…] to allow for the extra space taken up by the special overpowder wad.

1908 July 11, “Rubber Sandwich Wads”, in Forest and Stream, volume 71, page 71:

A two part wad column for use in shotshells is provided which consist of an overpowder component comprising inner and outer concentric cylindrical walls attached to a skirted end plate […]

1971, Canada Patent Office, The Patent Office Record, Application No. 085,160:

On firing, some of the hot gases from burning powder were able to bypass the overpowder and filler wads and reach the shot charge.

2015, Vincent J.M. DiMaio, Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, Third Edition:

(firearms) Serving to hold in the gunpowder.


semiballistic

(military) Being or relating to a missile of a kind that has a low trajectory and/or is largely ballistic but can perform maneuvers in flight or make unexpected changes in direction and range.


Cranborne money

Named after Lord Cranborne, who was leader of the House of Lords when it was introduced on 27 November 1996.

(UK politics) An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Lords, to help them with their costs.


Short money

Named after Edward Short (later Lord Glenamara), the leader of the House of Commons who first proposed the payments.

(UK politics) An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Commons, to help them with their costs.


cantonalism

(historical, politics) A Spanish insurrectionary movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, aiming to divide the nation state into almost independent cantons.


LOD

LOD (countable and uncountable, plural LODs)

Additionally, commanders should note that a LOD proceeding is neither a substitute for, nor a bar to, such disciplinary action as may be warrented.

1996, Richard A. Gittins, Kirk L. Davies, The Military Commander and the Law, →ISBN, page 222:

LOD investigations are usually a result of a soldier or other personnel being killed or injured, and the investigation is necessary to determine if the cause was in the line of duty, or if the actions that caused the casualties or injuries were a result of neglect or misconduct and not in the line of duty.

2009, E. Kelly Taylor, America's Army and the Language of Grunts, →ISBN:

An unfavorable LOD determination disqualifies a service member from receiving disability compensation.

2015, Janelle B. Moore, Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott, Don Philpott, The Wounded Warrior Handbook, →ISBN:

(military, law) Initialism of line of duty; an official determination of whether something occurred in the line of duty.


sublegion

The Legion of the United States was to consist of four sublegions of 1,280 men each, commanded by brigadier generals.

1967, Russell Frank Weigley, History of the United States Army, page 92:

Proposed as sublegion; ranked as infralegion by Chow & Rich, 1982:129; changed to rank of order by McKenna, in Stucky & McKenna, in Benton, ed., 1993:742.

1997, Malcolm C. McKenna, Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level:

(taxonomy, military) A subdivision of a legion.


trapezocracy

Neologism, from Greek τράπεζα (trápeza, bank) + -cracy. Attested in 2011 in the writings of Yanis Varoufakis. Saw increasing Internet usage during and after the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Hope may not, currently, shine brightly. The light on the hill may be dim, imperceptible. But if there is a light, it comes from the original idea of democracy as the only possible antidote to trapezocracy and to the calamities that it has in store for us.

2011, Y. Varoufakis, J. Halevi, N. Theocarakis, Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World, Routledge:

(politics, neologism) political domination by banks; bankocracy.


monarcho-fascist

Yet the leadership of the Greek Communist Party adopted the standpoint that the people was to be disarmed and its weapons handed to the monarcho-fascist reactionaries, making the excuse that monarcho-fascism would not be for a peaceful democratic development, and hence the people's liberation movement would be compelled to settle the question of power the revolutionary way.

1992, Haris Vlavianos, Greece, 1941–49: From Resistance to Civil War, →ISBN:

Already in the October circular which initiated this trend, the central committee's secretariat called on party members to join forces with “socialists, anarchists, republicans, nationalists; everyone in one bloc facing the fascist bloc of the various monarcho-fascist parties of the bourgeoisie."

1996, Gerd-Rainer Horn, European Socialists Respond to Fascism, →ISBN:

Before the war "he advanced hostile, left-sectarian Trotskyist ideas in relation to the peasants . . . and helped the monarcho-fascist power."

2014, E. P. P. Thompson, Carl Winslow, E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics, →ISBN:

(politics, usually derogatory) Of or related to monarcho-fascism, concerning a fascist state or system of government headed by a king or queen.


monarcho-fascist

The Greek monarcho-fascists, who put themselves in power only with the aid of foreign bayonets, suppose, not without foundations, that in the future also their fate will depend solely on suport from without.

1952, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press - Volume 3, page 16:

It was the provocations of the monarcho-fascists on the one hand and "the slanders upon Yugoslavia" on the other hand "which obliged the Yugoslavs to close the frontier completely and so defend their country".

1987, Lars Bærentzen, John O. Iatrides, Ole Langwitz Smith, Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949, →ISBN, page 294:

In April 1937 it united formally with the rest of the right—Carlist traditionalists, the 'monarcho-fascists' of Renovación Española and the residues of the CEDA—to form the monopolistic party of a state many would regard as 'fascist'.

2003, Martin Blinkhorn, Fascists and Conservatives, →ISBN:

(politics, usually derogatory) A supporter of monarcho-fascism generally; a supporter of a particular monarcho-fascist regime.

μοναρχοφασίστας

an adherent of a monarcho-fascist government


Remainiac

Though no Remainiac, I will vote in.

2016 June 11, Rachel Johnson, “RACHEL JOHNSON: Just stop picking on my big brother! (But, sorry Boris, I'm still voting In)”, in The Daily Mail:

Nevertheless, given that my proxy vote is safely secured back in Blighty, an international festival for creativity provides perfect context to ask the question, 'If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which camp would win?’ Who gets your branding vote, Brexiteer or Remainiac?

2016 June 23, Greg Taylor, “If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which side would win?”, in The Drum:

2017 August 2, Chris Campbell, “What was the point? Ferrari slates Remainiac in Brexit row for trying to ruin the Proms”, in Daily Express:

Together, they’ve conquered Middle England and seen of the Remainiacs.

2017 August 14, Julia Rampen, “5 unmissable Nigel Farage scenes from Bad Boys of Brexit: The Movie”, in New Statesman:

(UK politics, slang, neologism) One who opposes the idea of Brexit and wishes the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.


Tojo

After General Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister during World War II.

(military, slang, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive, dated) A Japanese person, especially a soldier during WW2.


Craxism

From Italian craxismo, equivalent to Italian Craxi + -ism.

(politics) The political philosophy of Bettino Craxi, Italian former prime minister.


WPG

(US, military, nautical) Initialism of weather, patrol, gunship/gunboat, a designation shiptype for the U.S. Coast Guard ocean-going cutters, which also function as meteorological stations and are equipped with deck guns.

WDE

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval frigate shiptype

WAVP

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the seaplane tender shiptype

WHEC

high endurance, cutter; a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval light cruiser shiptype

WMEC

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval destroyer shiptype

WPC

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval patrolcraft shiptype

WPB

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval patrolboat shiptype


(US politics, slang) Joe Biden, as the forty-sixth president of the United States.


The Agenda 47 web page has his policy statements with short description with what looks like a video that will play right there, but if you click on it takes you to a page with the video and lots of description for what the policy is actually about.

2024 October 30, Bill Addis, “Agenda 47 and More Bad Trump Ideas”, in Daily Kos:

The news that the Trump regime is going to investigate James Comey for the horribly threatening crime of posting a picture of seashells arranged to say “86 47” is at once laughable and appalling.

2025 May 16, teacherbill, “86 47! Come and get me Tulsi, Kash and Pam. You can't get us all.”, in Daily Kos:

(US politics, slang) Donald Trump (born 1946), American businessman and politician, as the forty-seventh president of the United States.


CBP

BATF

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

CBP continues to find ways to improve the entry process through the use of mobile technology to ensure it is safe and efficient. To that end, CBP has deployed a process which allows travelers to use a mobile app to submit information to CBP prior to arrival in domestic locations and prior to departure at preclearance locations. This process, called Mobile Passport Control (MPC) allows travelers to self-segment upon arrival into the United States or departing a preclearance location.

2023 October 27, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, “Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of Existing Collection; U.S. Customs Declaration (CBP Form 6059B)”, in Federal Register, Document Number 2023-23783, pages 73867-73868:

(US law enforcement) Initialism of Customs and Border Protection.

USCBP

United States Customs and Border Protection


dual federalism

(government) A form of federalism in which power is clearly divided between the federal and state governments.


Delta Force

(US, military) A US Army unit that carries out hostage rescue, counterterrorism, and actions against high-value targets.


MMD

Movement for Multi-Party Democracy
w:Movement for Multi-Party Democracy

(politics) Initialism of Movement for Multi-Party Democracy: a Zambian political party.


propertarianism

Faced with the dilemmas of democratic 'propertarianism', which have indeed not been fully […]

1974, Marcus Cunliffe, The right to property: a theme in American history, Sir George Watson lecture delivered in the University of Leicester, 4 May 1973:

Propertarianism joined to capitalist vigor destroyed meaningful commercial competition, but when it came to making good software, anarchism won.

1999, Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright:

Put most famously by John Locke, homesteading is central to anarcho-capitalism, rights-based libertarianism, and propertarianism.

2015, Eleanor Robertson, “The Herschel backpack: how Generation Y carries capitalism's mythologies”, in The Guardian:

(politics, libertarianism) The libertarian philosophy that promotes contractual relationships made voluntarily, as opposed to government-imposed ones.


monarcho-fascism

In the village, I saw the full consequences of monarcho-fascism upon proud, decent people who fought for freedom and national independence.

2013, George Kassimeris, Inside Greek Terrorism, →ISBN:

Finally, he cites a set of corporatist regimes, such as King Carol's monarcho-fascism in Romania from 1938, followed by General Antonescu's military fascism from 1940-44, as well as the French Vichy regime.

2014, Antonio Costa Pinto, Roger Eatwell, Stein Ugelvik Larsen, Charisma and Fascism, →ISBN:

(politics, usually derogatory) A political system in which a monarch wields fascistic control over opposition, criticism, and the economy, a fascist system of government led by a king or queen.


mediary

Charles king of France by an angel a shield of blue with three fleur-de-lis of gold together with other armour: and on both these occasions the foundation and field of the arms was azure, and this was superior to the gold. Therefore it is clear that this colour is the chief of all mediary and submediary colours.

1943, Evan John Jones, Medieval Heraldry: Some Fourteenth Century Heraldic Works, page 19:

The colours primary in themselves are the colours white and black; the colours truly mediary are blue, gold, and red; the sub-mediary colours are green and any Similar if there are any.

2011, Carole P. Biggam, Carole A. Hough, Christian J. Kay, New Directions in Colour Studies, →ISBN, page 200:

In answering this dilemma, Bado assesses the colours of fourteenth-century heraldry according to their status as primary, mediary or sub-mediary; their relative honour determined by the amount of elemental mixing gone into their creation. Thus Bado's opines that white is the highest colour in terms of honour, closely followed by black -- as opposed to Bartolo's contention that black was the lowest colour. (Red and blue are superior to green (as sub-mediary) in all fourteenth-century accounts of armorial colour I have seen)

2014, K.P. Clarke, Sarah Baccianti, On Light, →ISBN, page 41:

(heraldry, of color) Having a primary hue (red, blue, or gold), as opposed to one that can be created by mixing colors with primary hues.


point of inquiry

point of inquiry (plural points of inquiry)

(politics) A motion by a member of a meeting in order to ask a question.


Smokey Bear

Smokey Bears (plural)
Smokey (alternative)
Smokey the Bear (alternative)
smokey bear (alternative)
smokey (alternative)

From an ad campaign first introduced in 1944 by Foote, Cone and Belding in cooperation with the Forest Service and the Ad Council. The name was was inspired by “Smokey” Joe Martin, a New York City Fire Department hero who suffered burns and blindness during a bold 1922 rescue. (Later, in 1950, an actual burned black bear cub was named Smokey and took on this symbolic role.)

No Smokey Bears: You can't shoot something you can't see. The Air Force in Viet Nam has special teams that blast away tree leaves and other shrubbery beside canals that offer hiding places for the Viet Cong. The motto of these defoliation teams: "Only you can prevent forests."

1966, The Conservationist - Volumes 21-22, page 34:

Aircraft used to spread Agent Orange and other defoliants were known as Smokey Bears.

2007, America, History and Life - Volume 44, Issue 3, page 660:

(military slang) An aircraft used to drop defoliants in the Vietnam War.


armed response

Advice in international crises where the UK contemplates an armed response comes from the foreign office legal adviser - a senior civil service lawyer - the attorney general and the solicitor general.

(politics) A response to a political issue that involves military action or the use of weapons.


cultural Bolshevism

(Nazism, politics, historical) Those cultural elements that were perceived by the Nazi party to be propagating politically undesirable Bolshevik ideas.

kulturbolşevizm

cultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas


slaught-beam

slaught-beams (plural)
slaught-boom (alternative)

Probably a calque of Dutch slagboom or German Schlagbaum. These are etymologically equivalent to English slay + beam, meaning a beam that can be banged (“slain”) down. The word slaught (related with slay) would have been chosen because it is phonetically closer to the continental words.
Alternatively it might be a phono-semantic matching of Dutch sluitboom, which has the same sense, but literally means “closing beam”. In this case, however, the etymological relation between the element slaught and the above-mentioned words would be a curious coincidence.

psm

Raise the slaught-beam.


Corbynmania

As Corbynmania took off, a paper cup he had drunk from at a rally was sold on eBay for £51.

2016, Rosa Prince, Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup:

Neither he, nor anyone else, had counted on 'Corbynmania' sweeping the Labour ranks as a growing base of young activists got fired up by an antiausterity message and the unassuming, authentic character promoting it.

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


SLC

"We continuously strive to improve our processes and indeed have updated our systems accordingly. Ultimately, however, it is for the student to make a proper declaration to SLC [Student Loans Company]^([sic]) to draw down funding," LSST said in a statement.

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

Student Loans Company
w:Student Loans Company

(UK, government) Initialism of Student Loans Company.


curtain wall

(military, historical) The outer wall of a castle or defensive wall between two bastions.


JDAT

JDAT is a subcommand of the J6 Directorate of the United States Joint Chief of Staff.

Joint Deployable Analysis Team
w:Joint Deployable Analysis Team

(US, military) Initialism of Joint Deployable Analysis Team.


Obamabot

(US politics, derogatory or humorous) A supporter of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

(US politics, derogatory or humorous) A person paid to post pro-Obama articles on the Internet.


DCT

en-noun

DCT (countable and uncountable, plural DCTs)

(military) Abbreviation of division(al) combat team.


clericocracy

Near-synonym: theocracy

Marx in his analysis of the East India Company had already characterised the nature of the company's administration — the clericocracy.

1988, K. Seshadri, Marxism and Indian Polity, page 120:

Does this mean that religions are still more attached to (hybrid forms of) theocracy, clericocracy and monocracy than to democracy, which underlies the two principles?

2011, Leslie Francis, The Public Significance of Religion, page 32:


Tea Partier

(US politics) A supporter of the Tea Party political movement.


Brexiter

/ˈbɹɛɡzɪtə(ɹ)/

2016 February 20, Timothy Garton Ash, “Here’s how to argue with a Brexiter – and win”, in The Guardian, title:

Trump and the Tory Brexiters are cut from the same cloth.

2016 March 2, Deborah Orr, “What do Trump and Brexiters have in common? A disregard for all but themselves”, in The Guardian:

The proposal, made ahead of Thursday's crucial vote on Britain's continued EU membership, is designed to deflect accusations that Brexiters - as supporters of Britain's exit from the EU are popularly known - have used crude anti-immigrant and racist slogans to pollute the political debate during the EU referendum campaign and may have even indirectly inspired last week's murder of Mrs Jo Cox, a local opposition MP and fervent migration defender.

2016 June 21, Jonathan Eyal, “Brexiter's call for amnesty for illegals seen as a gimmick”, in The Straits Times:


Lexit

And that is why – if indeed much of the left decides on Lexit – it must run its own separate campaign and try and win ownership of the issue.

2015 July 14, Owen Jones, “The left must put Britain's EU withdrawal on the agenda”, in The Guardian:

Others on the left call for a populist campaign for a “Lexit” – a leftwing exit from the EU.

2015 October 5, Mark Leonard, “What would a UK outside the EU look like?”, in The Guardian:

There is a push from the left in the UK for a ‘Lexit’ – a move away from the neo-liberal EU which stomped on an anti-austerity peoples’ movement in Greece and failed to respond to the refugee crisis.

2016 June 22, Ewa Jasiewicz, “Why I’m in: Pushing for Lexit won’t help migrants or the working class”, in The Independent:

Exasperated by the EU’s mixture of authoritarianism and economic failure, a segment of Europe’s left is now calling for a “break with the EU,” which would mobilize left-wing support for exit referenda across the continent. Their analysis has come to be known simply as “Lexit.”

2016 September 5, Yanis Varoufakis, “Europe’s Left after Brexit”, in Jacobin:

Popular Unity contested the general election that followed in September on a programme for a left exit – Lexit – from the euro but, falling 7,600 votes short of the 3% threshold to win representation, ended up with no seats.

2019 February 7, Clive Heemskerk, “Lexit is not enough”, in Socialism Today:

(politics) A leftist exit from the European Union.

(politics) The hypothetical withdrawal of Luxembourg from the European Union.


11 Downing Street

(UK politics) The address of the residence in London of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

(UK politics, by extension, idiomatic) The title or office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

(UK politics, by extension, idiomatic) HM Treasury of the United Kingdom.


Number Eleven

No 11 (alternative)
Number 11 (alternative)

11 Downing Street
11 Downing Street#English

(UK politics, colloquial) Synonym of 11 Downing Street.


Number 11

No 11 (alternative)
Number Eleven (alternative)


act of war

(military) An action that would justify the initiation of hostilities against the perpetrator; an action that by its nature comprises a cessation of peace.

(military) An action taken by military forces as part of a war.


Johnsonism

Johnsonism (countable and uncountable, plural Johnsonisms)

Truss won the race to replace Johnson by presenting herself as both the continuity candidate[…]and the new guard who would do away with all the boring bits of Johnsonism, such as raising taxes to pay for things.

2022 October 14, Tom McTague, “The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-10-15:

(UK politics) The ideology, doctrine and practice of former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

(US politics) The ideology, doctrine and practice of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.


remainer

The government’s “bullish” and “macho” approach to Brexit should not stop Conservative backbenchers from tabling amendments to the crucial repeal bill, a leading Tory remainer has said.

2017 September 4, “End ‘macho’ Brexit posturing, Anna Soubry urges May”, in The Guardian:

The reason this once-devout remainer doggedly sticks to these lines is obvious: even if opinion polling suggests that residual popular belief in Brexit is now ebbing away, the Labour party has to secure the support of people who voted leave in 2016, switched from Labour to the Tories in 2019, and would supposedly greet any talk of revisiting the basics of Brexit with anger and dismay.

2023 January 1, John Harris, “The wreckage of Brexit is all around us. How long can our politicians indulge in denial?”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of Remainer.


COMSUBPAC

(US, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, submarine force, U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.


COMPACFLT

(US, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.


CANSOFCOM

Special Operations Force
special operations force#English

(Canada, military) Abbreviation of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command.


PACFLT

(US, nautical, military) Abbreviation of U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.


USSOCOM

w:United States Special Operations Command

(US, military) Abbreviation of United States Special Operations Command.


banana clip

It included 44 AK-47 rifles, and 260 large-capacity banana clips.

2006, Gideon Burrows, Kalashnikov AK47, page 45:

(firearms) A curved ammunition clip for the AK-47 assault rifle.


Regrexit

/ɹɪˈɡɹɛɡ.zɪt/

/ɹɪˈɡɹɛk.sɪt/

Blend of regret + Brexit, said to have been coined on 24 June 2016 by one Carl Gardner in a Twitter post (see quotations) following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum on 23 June 2016.

Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it.

2016 June 24, Carl Gardner (@carlgardner), Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-02:

There are leave voters who confessed to reporters that they never thought their side would actually win, that their vote had only ever been intended as a protest, presumed to be safe because surely everyone else would vote the other way. […] A Twitter user came up with a new coinage for this rapid form of buyer's remorse: Regrexit. […] When some of those leave voters see that Brexit has not brought back the good jobs of old, that housing is still in desperately short supply and that a migrant family still lives round the corner, the Regrexit sentiment will grow.

2016 June 24, Jonathan Freedland, “For the 48%, this was a day of despair: Soon we will become little Britain. The signs of Regrexit are cold comfort for those of us who voted to remain.”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-09-13, subtitle:

From reports, the UK is moving rapidly from Brexit to Regrexit.

2016 June 26, Abhidevananda <abhide...@sarkarverse.org>, “Re: Brexit”, in uk.philosophy.humanism (Usenet), message-ID <t9ybz.34812$LR2.4319@fx26.fr7>:

In the spirit of Brexit, these attitudes even have their own media-friendly nickname: Bregret or Regrexit.

2016 June 27, Adam Taylor, “Bregret? Regrexit? Don't bet on it.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2016-10-06:

There were many reasons for the Leave vote, and Regrexit is now gaining momentum.

2016 June 29, Anna Wallis, “Brexit lessons here”, in Wanganui Chronicle:

Within a few days, petitions to re-do the vote emerged with more than four million signatures, known as 'Regrexit.'

2017, Markus M.L. Crepaz, European Democracies, Routledge, →ISBN:

There's a chance, especially with the 'Regrexit' sentiment surfacing, that the U.K. will still be part of the EU in two years.

2018, Victor O. Okocha, Leadership and Development Crises in Africa: A New Approach to an Old Challenge, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 234:

(UK politics) A feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it.


COMMARPAC

Unlike NORAD where a formally constituted bi-national command staff existed to handle emergencies, the bilateral naval organization, which was every bit as complex as that of NORAD but did not have the same history of political sensitivity, relied on liaison between the key headquarters: COMASWFORLANT in the United States and COMARLANT in Canada to deal with the Atlantic with a parallel structure on the Pacific through COMTHIRDFLT and COMMARPAC respectively.

2007, Peter T. Haydon, “Canadian Involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis Re-Reconsidered”, in The Northern Mariner, volume 17, number 2, CNRS & NASOH, →ISSN, page 62:

When I was assigned to COMMARPAC headquarters in 1973, it was for two reasons. The first was to get headquarters staff officer experience which helps your career down the road, and the second was I had some health issues and the flight surgeons wanted me out of the cockpit for a while.

2021, Lewis Allen Lambert, chapter 28, in On the 8th Day, God Created a Marine, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, maritime forces, Pacific.


CANMARPAC

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces, Pacific.


CANMARCOM

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces command.


MARCOM

(nautical, military) Abbreviation of maritime forces command.


COMMARCOM

(nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, maritime forces command.


LANT

(military) Abbreviation of Atlantic (Atlantic Ocean).


COMSUBFOR

(US, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, submarine forces.


radical feminism

radical feminism (countable and uncountable, plural radical feminisms)

The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminism anathema to much of the left. First, the organizers hoped to refute charges that the desire to ban prostitution implies hostility toward prostitutes.

2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism which calls for a radical reordering of society to eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts.


double dissolution

House of Representatives
House of Representatives

(government, politics, Australia) A procedure in which the Government requests the Governor-General to dissolve both houses of Parliament and call a full election, typically to resolve a deadlock between the House of Representatives and the Senate.


(colloquial, World War I, military, historical) Ellipsis of French 75.


Laborite

(Australian politics) a member or supporter of the Australian Labor Party, a centre-left political party of Australia.


Oslo process

(politics) A peace process between Israel and Palestine, begun with the Oslo Accords.


half-bat

half-bats (plural)
halfbat (alternative)


lead with one's chin

en-verb

lead with one's chin (third-person singular simple present leads with one's chin, present participle leading with one's chin, simple past and past participle led with one's chin)

leads with one's chin (present singular third-person)
leading with one's chin (participle present)
led with one's chin (participle past)
led with one's chin (past)

(boxing) To leave one's chin unprotected.


Defra

For Defra, funding for flood defences and disease prevention are likely to be protected.

2015 November 11, Emma Howard, “Defra hit by largest budget cuts of any UK government department, analysis shows”, in The Guardian:

w:Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

(UK politics) Initialism of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.


DfE

Department for Education
w:Department for Education

(UK, education, UK politics) Initialism of Department for Education.


fighting irons

The leading recruit is pausing briefly while receiving his dinner plate in his left hand and then is resuming his forward movement towards the serving area, but first picking up a dark green plastic cup and a set of fighting irons (knife, fork, and spoon) from the leading edge of the bay marines.

2012, DF Ryschka, Too Young to Vote but Old Enough to Kill:


long rifle

long rifles (plural)
longrifle (alternative)

(firearms) An American style of rifle with an unusually long barrel, used in hunting and warfare.


Gülenist

Gülenists (plural)
Gulenist (alternative)

The military, which opposes the AKP and the Gülenists because it sees itself as the virtual guardian of Turkey’s secular polity à la Ataturk’s vision, serving as a bulwark against religion’s domination over politics and government, has become the primary target of this round of politically motivated arrests.

2010 February 25, Soner Cagaptay, “What’s Really Behind Turkey’s Coup Arrests?”, in Foreign Policy:

Their main function is to coordinate the global charity and investment activities of Gülenist businessmen and other participants, many of them teachers and students.

2014, Jenny White, Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, page 37:

The movement is known to have colonized the police force as a Gülenist enclave together with some parts of the judiciary.

2016, Umit Cizre, The Turkish AK Party and Its Leader: Criticism, Opposition and Dissent, page 113:

(Turkey, politics) A supporter of the social movement led by Turkish Islamic scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen.


generals' coup

(informal, politics) A military coup d'état instigated by the military establishment (or a majority of it), not just a faction of the military.


colonels' coup

(informal, politics) a military coup d'état instigated by a group of unit commanders, a faction of the military, and not the military establishment


WoW

(US, politics, derogatory) Initialism of War on Women.


RNC

As RNC chair, Priebus said, he speaks “every day” with Trump.

2016 August 28, Tom McCarthy, quoting Reince Priebus, “Reince Priebus on Trump campaign hires: ‘I go with the flow’”, in The Guardian:

Republican National Committee
w:Republican National Committee

(US politics) Initialism of Republican National Committee.


RNC

Republican National Convention
w:Republican National Convention

(US politics) Initialism of Republican National Convention.


LNC

Libertarian National Committee
w:Libertarian National Committee

(US politics) Initialism of Libertarian National Committee.


LNC

Libertarian National Convention
w:Libertarian National Convention

(US politics) Initialism of Libertarian National Convention.


active shooter

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The sense “individual engaged in a shooting spree” was popularized in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre (1999).

In most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims.

“When you have an active shooter going after people at random—a shooter with a plan,” he said, “that's completely different than your typical barricade hostage situation.”

1999 April 28, Timothy Egan, quoting Larry Glick, “School Attack May Bring Changes in Police Tactics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Today, the sound of gunshots often prompts “active shooter” warnings on social media, whether or not the event fits the F.B.I.’s definition of the term. In many cases, reports of active shooters have turned out to be false.

2021 May 5, Jacey Fortin, “What Does ‘Active Shooter’ Really Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US, military, law enforcement) A person actively engaged in a shooting spree.


CENTCOM

Duncan’s account includes a note that it had been “thoroughly reviewed” and approved by Central Command on October 6 for operational security reasons. The statement from CENTCOM made no mention of the review.

2021 October 14, Oren Liebermann, “CENTCOM disputes Air Force account of attempted hijacking at Kabul airport during Afghanistan evacuation”, in CNN:

(US, military) Acronym of Central Command (a global U.S. forces regional command)


hush puppy

When we used it in our “hush puppy” against a sentry, the target was almost always hit only once, in the head.

Normally, they would have used the silenced .22 ‘Hush Puppy’ pistol to dispatch both the dog and the sentry, but this was an exercise.

2021, Christophe Downes, War Crimes for the Political Elite:

(military slang) A semiautomatic handgun fitted with a suppressor, used by special forces personnel to quietly take out guard dogs and sentries.


far-left

en-adj

far-left (comparative more far-left, superlative most far-left)

more far-left (comparative)
most far-left (superlative)

In another worrying development for Germany’s mainstream, the fledgling Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) – a far-left party that has questioned the country’s support for Ukraine and shares some of the AfD’s anti-immigration streak – came third in both states, despite only being founded earlier this year.

2024 September 2, Christian Edwards, Claudio Otto, Matties Otto and Nadine Schmidt, “AfD becomes first far-right party to win German state election since 1945”, in CNN:

(politics) Of or pertaining to the far left.


maknoon

maknoon (comparative more maknoon, superlative most maknoon)

more maknoon (comparative)
most maknoon (superlative)


double-jobbing

(UK politics) The act of holding two or more political offices simultaneously.


airshoot

The impressive results: naval gunfire support qualification achieved an 86.3 average, scoring 100 in two surface gunnery shoots , and a 95 grade for an airshoot.

1984, Surface Warfare - Volume 9, Issue 2, page 27:

We had an account to settle with these compound mortars, and were therefore pleased when an RAF jeep arrived to link us with two Spitfires to carry out airshoots on these deadly nuisances.

2002, Denis Falvey, A Well-known Excellence, page 160:

(rare, weaponry) A shot at something that is in the air, or a shot in midair.


republiqueta

republiquetas (plural)
republiquette (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish republiqueta, from república (“republic”) + -eta (diminutive suffix).

suf

Lumumba replied by going on the air to congratulate "our brothers of the North Congo," in "the republiquette of the Abbe Youlou."

1968, F. Seth Singleton, The African States and the Congo Affair, 1960-1965, page 80:

(politics, derogatory) A small and recently created republic, with a precarious organization and weak institutions.

(specifically, historical) An independence-seeking guerrilla group in South America in the 19th century.


Porkulus

Blend of pork + stimulus, coined by Rush Limbaugh in January 2009. See pork barrel (“local or regional state funds”).

(US politics, informal, derogatory) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.


take the count

en-verb

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

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

Apparently ignorant of the rules of the ring which permit a fighter knocked to the floor to take the count of nine, he staggered to his feet, only to be met with another blow before he could collect his senses sufficiently to 'cover?'

1916 December 19, Chris Cozzone, Jim Boggio, quoting Rocky Mountain News, Fighter is Killed at National Club by Blow on Head, 2013, quoted in Boxing in New Mexico, 1868-1940, →ISBN, page 184:

But if a boxer is knocked down, he can always take an 'eight' count and not get up after two or three seconds. Those extra five or six seconds give you a chance to clear your head. To try to gather your reflexes, come to yourself. A friend of mine, Ruby Kessler in Ebbets Field, we fought in the same show that night. And Pete Scanlon dropped 'im. And Ruby jumped right up, and he was shakin' and they were hollerin' from the corner, 'Get down, get down, take the count, take the count.'

2011, Allen Bodner, quoting Herbie Kronowitz, When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 143:

(boxing) To take to opportunity to rest briefly after being knocked down but before being counted out by the referee.


gold star family

en-noun

gold star family (plural gold star families)

And when he came down with a life-threatening case of Covid, he suggested that he might have caught it from Gold Star families he had met with after his positive test — that is, he blamed people he himself had callously endangered.

2021 December 7, Paul Krugman, “Where Have All the Grown-ups Gone?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US military) the immediate family of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action


gold star father

gold star father (plural gold star fathers)

(US military) the father of a member of the U.S. armed forces who was killed in action


gold star mother

gold star mother (plural gold star mothers)

blue star mother: the mother of a living active-duty U.S. serviceman)

(US military) the mother of a member of the U.S. armed forces who was killed in action


gold star wife

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From gold star (“(attributively) relative of a United States soldier when the latter has been killed in action”) + wife. Gold star refers to stars of that colour traditionally shown on service flags displayed by families of members of the U.S. armed forces.

(US military) The widow of a member of the United States armed forces who was killed in action.


Gold Star

From gold + star from the shape of the medal, being star-shaped, and the colouration of the medal, being golden, with gold representing the highest of three grades of star medals, of traditional usage of metallic colours, gold, silver, bronze.

(military) A high-level military service award (medal).


gold star

From Gold + star from the star shape of the award and its colour, representing the highest of three levels: gold, silver, bronze.

a gold-star mother

(in compounds, US military) A relative of a U.S. soldier when the latter has been killed in action.


vote-catching

en-adj

vote-catching (comparative more vote-catching, superlative most vote-catching)

more vote-catching (comparative)
most vote-catching (superlative)

(politics) Tending to attract votes in an election.


vote-catching

(politics) The skill or art of attracting votes in an election.


flaunched

(heraldry) Alternative form of flanched.


Corbynista

[…]although it was just as often dismissed: what use were a group of cultish, Trotskyist-infused Corbynista clicktivists, hopelessly out of touch with normal people, when it came to the crunch?

2017 June 1, Rachel Shabi, “What use is a group of cultish, Corbynista clicktivists? Quite a lot, actually”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

“In 2020 you told me to my face that you would ‘inspire people to come together … disciplining people to be united is going nowhere’. You’ve broken that promise,” said Driscoll, often described as “the last Corbynista in power” since becoming the first mayor for North of Tyne in 2019.

2023 July 17, Ben Quinn, “Jamie Driscoll quits Labour after snub in north-east mayor race”, in The Guardian:

“That is irritating the left of the Labour Party, so the more Corbynista/Momentum members want the Labour party to go much further in helping renters in a pushing back against Conservatives.”

2023 September 13, Anna Sagar, “Housing will not be priority for Labour or Conservatives going into next election, expert says”, in MortgageSolutions.co.uk:

(UK politics, informal) A supporter of British politician Jeremy Corbyn.


soft money

en-noun

soft money (usually uncountable, plural soft moneys)

(US, politics) Funds contributed to political parties for activities intended to influence state or local elections.


Rothbardianism

(politics, economics) The political and/or economic philosophy championed by Murray N. Rothbard.


kayfabed

While some respectable sporting journals, most significantly Ring Magazine, continued to offer balanced (but kayfabed) coverage of wrestling, the ballyhoo-filled wrestling magazines came to be the main source of printed information for devotees.

2006, Scott M. Beekman, Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America, Westport, Conn., London: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 97:

He also lived in the bizarre, hazy world of half-truth, half-kayfabed fiction that wrestling in 2007 had become. Lest we forget just how far the line between reality and storyline was blurred, WWE refused to acknowledge the death of Sherri Martel because it would undermine the Vince is dead angle.

2008, Scott Keith, “Conclusion”, in Dungeon of Death: Chris Benoit and the Hart Family Curse, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press Books, Kensington Publishing, →ISBN, page 193:

[King Kong] Bundy and I stood our ground and yelled shit at each other, acting like we were about to go to blows. Then I scuffed my feet, rubbed my hands together, and went for the slam. I picked him up about halfway before I felt him deadweight me, and I had to let go of him. I grabbed my back in kayfabed pain.

2011, Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis, Andrew William Wright, “Destroy Everything that Moves”, in The Road Warriors: Danger, Death, and the Rush of Wrestling, [St. Charles, Ill.]: Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 82:

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) Of events within the industry: portrayed as real, and not scripted or staged.


BAR

Browning Automatic Rifle
w:Browning Automatic Rifle

(military) Initialism of Browning Automatic Rifle.


RTC

As graduation approached there were several rumors swirling around us and they were intended to add salt to our wounds before leaving RTC.

2013, David Banagis, Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Sailor's Story, Bloomington, IN: Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 15:

w:Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois

(US, military) Initialism of Recruit Training Command: a unit within the United States Navy responsible for conducting the initial orientation and indoctrination of incoming recruits, located at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois.


aerosol bomb

thermobaric weapon
thermobaric weapon#English

(weaponry) A type of thermobaric weapon.


corkscrew stake

corkscrew stake (plural corkscrew stakes)

So far we had done nothing except file past a tool-dump, where men had collected picks, shovels, coils of wire and corkscrew stakes.

1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 337 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):

(military) A steel stake, used for barbed-wire defences, the lower half of which is corkscrew-shaped, to enable it to be screwed into the ground.


screw picket

(military) A steel stake, used for barbed-wire defences, the lower half of which is corkscrew shaped, to enable it to be screwed into the ground.


COC

chain of command
chain of command#English

(military) Initialism of chain of command.

(Philippine politics, elections) Initialism of certificate of candidacy.


Pallywood

And because provocative imagery is sometimes faked, a few people I interviewed in Israel and the United States claimed that it must have been faked in the al-Dura case. The boy could not possibly have been shot! The whole thing was staged by the “Pallywood” propaganda film industry.

2014 July 31, James Fallows, “On David Frum, The New York Times, and the Non-Faked 'Fake' Gaza Photos”, in The Atlantic:

A pro-Palestinian website painted the Tamimi mother and daughter as “determined lionesses”; Israeli ones as manipulative “Pallywood” frauds playing for the cameras.

2015 September 1, Peter Beaumont, “Nabi Saleh images illustrate changing asymmetry of Israeli-Palestinian conflict”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(politics, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Alleged or real manipulation or distortion of the media by Palestinian sources to promote a pro-Palestinian point of view; Palestinian propaganda.


Texit

* (Texas): Blend of Texas + exit, modelled after Brexit, Grexit, etc.
* (Tasmania): Blend of Tasmania + exit, modelled after Brexit, Grexit, etc.

(US politics) The proposed secession of Texas from the United States.

(Australia, politics) Synonym of Tasexit: The proposed secession or expulsion of Tasmania from Australia.


gold star parent

gold star parent (plural gold star parents)

(US military) the parent of a member of the U.S. armed forces who was killed in action


POCO

POCO (countable and uncountable, plural POCOs)

(uncountable, Europe politics) Acronym of political cooperation.


magic asterisk

Coined by Howard Henry Baker Jr., from the Reagan administration's use in 1981 of asterisks as placeholders for cuts yet to be decided in government spending.

The other technique, known as the "magic asterisk," consisted of hiding phony cuts in the small print of various budget documents in order to exaggerate the Administration's success in spending reduction and to minimize the projected deficit.

1986 May 11, Michael Kinsley, “IN THE LAND OF THE MAGIC ASTERISK”, in New York Times:

Howard Baker, then a Senator, had dubbed them the "magic asterisk," for it was blithely assumed that they would be taken care of at a later date.

1991, Wallace C. Peterson, Transfer Spending, Taxes, and the American Welfare State, Kluwer Academic Publishers, section 99:

"They have a magic asterisk," Hoyer said.
The magic asterisk: The words alone are enough to strike fear into the hearts of grizzled veterans of the budget wars.

2015 March 17, Max Ehrenfreund, “House Republican budget: There’s a mysterious $1.1 trillion in spending cuts in the House GOP’s budget”, in Washington Post:

(idiomatic, politics, economics) an unspecified future budget cut, especially an imaginary cut.


contract system

contract system (plural contract systems)

(law enforcement) The system of selling the labor of convicts to a contractor, who provides the necessary materials and supervises the work in the premises of the prison.


X-plane

(US, military) Any of a series of experimental aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts.


Q-boat

(military, historical) Synonym of Q-ship.


Q-ship

Short for Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland, the home port of the British Q-ships, when they were first implemented in World War I.

Q-ships were usually armed with one 4-inch and two 12-pounder guns. These were hidden behind hinged bulwarks, inside false superstructures and false deck cargoes, or under dummy lifeboats.

2005, Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts, World War I: Encyclopedia, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, page 956:

(military, historical) A merchant ship with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.


WAR

Winchester Automatic Rifle
w:Winchester Automatic Rifle

(military, historical) Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.


SOCMINT

social media intelligence
social media intelligence#English

(espionage) Acronym of social media intelligence.


INT

INT (countable and uncountable, plural INTs)

(espionage) Abbreviation of intelligence.


social media intelligence

(espionage) Intelligence gathered from social media.


militaric

en-adj

militaric (comparative more militaric, superlative most militaric)

more militaric (comparative)
most militaric (superlative)

(military, rare) Of or pertaining to a military.


militarical

militarical (comparative more militarical, superlative most militarical)

more militarical (comparative)
most militarical (superlative)

(military, very rare) Of or pertaining to a military.


post-truth

/ˌpəʊst ˈtɹuːθ/

He is, he claims, post-God, post-reality, post-truth, post-meaning, post- history, post-world, post-Western […]

Victims or exiles should not repeat any longer what everybody already knows in the new 'post-truth' world order – that they are among numerous contemporary victims of war crimes and military violence […]

1995, Collegium Antropologicum, volume 19, page 20:

Clearly quite a lot of journalism is post-truth . . . More important, perhaps, is journalism's post-truth tendency . . . to make no propositions for which there is a possible 'true/false' response.

2001, John Beynon, Masculinities And Culture, →ISBN:

In the post-truth world, the people are saturated by a plurality of discourses that are struggling for the consent of the audience, the difference being that the explosion of messages that characterises modernity is no longer stamped with the 'authority' of their authors.

2001, Roy Ascott, Reframing consciousness: art, mind and technology, page 293:

In Christianity Today, columnist Charles Colson bemoaned our “post-truth society,” which produces liars such as Tawana Brawley, David Brock, and Stephen Ambrose.

2003, Craig Detweiler, Barry Taylor, A Matrix of Meanings (Engaging Culture): Finding God in Pop Culture, →ISBN, page 2003:

Avoiding a cacophony is a worthy objective, because Australia has managed to largely sidestep the post-truth hellscape the US has endured during the pandemic because politicians, by and large, have chosen to inhabit a universe of shared facts and common messages.

2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly politics, media) Beyond or superseding the importance of truth; pertaining to an era or situation when truth is no longer significant, relevant, or expected; (usually derogatory) not caring about factual accuracy.


Tallboy

en-noun

Tallboy (countable and uncountable, plural Tallboys)

This is understandable inasmuch that the majority of observers were inside the air raid shelters by the time Tallboys started exploding and time delay fuses added even more to the confusion.

2002, Jak P. Mallmann Showell, Hitler's U-boat Bases, page 140:

The 12,000-pound ‘Tallboy’ was another creation from Barnes Wallis, who had long been privately working on the new generation of heavyweight, aerodynamic bombs.[…]Reaching a terminal velocity or 3,700 feet per second, the Tallboy was capable of making a crater that would have taken 5,000 tons of earth to fill.

2009, Leo McKinstry, Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber:

The first occasion that the Tallboy was used in support of the Normandy campaign was on the night 8-9 June against the Saumur railway tunnel.[…]Twenty three Tallboys were dropped, most falling near the markers at the mouth of the tunnel causing great damage.

2014, Ben Kite, Stout Hearts: The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944, page 226:

Joe's nose art was Chuck-Chuck, a panda that was variously depicted driving a Jeep, carrying a Tallboy bomb or, to symbolise the British/American connection, wearing a top hat decorated with the American flag and a vest bearing the Union Jack and carrying a cigarette in a holder to represent President Roosevelt while smoking a cigar to represent Winston Churchill.

2014, George 'Johnny' Johnson, The Last British Dambuster: One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history, page 5:

Production of Tallboys was limited to one a day in Britain, and although thirty per week were being made in America, the convoys bringing them over could be held up by bad weather and the continuing (if decreasing) threat from U-boats.

2015, Sam Gooch, Group Captain John 'Joe' Collier DSO, DFC and Bar:

(military, historical) An earthquake bomb developed for the British Armed Forces and deployed by the RAF during World War II.


Kerrison predictor

Kerrison predictor (plural Kerrison predictors)

Designed by Major A. V. Kerrison at the Admiralty Research Laboratory, Teddington, in the late 1930s.

(military, historical) An early automated anti-aircraft fire-control system, capable of aiming a gun at an aircraft based on simple inputs such as observed speed and the angle to the target.


Royal Yorker

(military, historical) A member of the King's Royal Regiment of New York.


BRAT

(US, military) Acronym of Bradley reactive armor tile.


From V(isegrád) + 4 (the number of countries involved).

There was fury among V4 members when, the day after the Brexit result was revealed, only the foreign ministers from the EU’s six founding states were invited to Berlin by the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to pledge their support for an “ever closer union”.

2016 July 23, Kate Connolly, The Guardian:

(politics) The four Visegrád countries of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, who have a European political alliance.


counterriposte

(fencing) A thrust delivered in response to the opponent's riposte.


as you were

Disregard the previous partial command or order and return to the most recent formal command or order.

stehen Sie bequem

tell soldiers they need no longer stand at attention

weitermachen

make soldiers return to previous duty after inspection

standing at attention
stand at attention

Stop standing at attention or don't stand at attention (used when, for instance, an officer enters a barracks room).


quartermaster train

quartermaster train (plural quartermaster trains)

On the other hand, almost the entire quartermaster company is properly included as the division quartermaster train. It furnishes the nucleus of the transportation pool for the division, and its cargo vehicles are used for transportation of supplies for the division as a whole, and of course for evacuation of personnel and supplies that can be carried to the rear in trucks which would otherwise return empty.

1943, Military Review - Volume 23, Issue 4, page 48:

In 1931, to provide quartermaster personnel for posts and stations in the United States, the quartermaster train in each active division except the 2d was reduced to two motor companies and a motor repair section.

1999, John B. Wilson, Maneuver and Fire Power: The Evolution of Divisions and Separate Brigades, →ISBN:

After crossing the river the Idaho emigrants left for the west and the command marched down the left bank to the Missouri Eiver, there ferrying the quartermaster train and battery and fording with horses and mules.

2005, Minn Board of Commissioners, Minnesota in the Civil And Indian Wars 1861-1865, →ISBN, page 675:

(military) The vehicles and personnel dedicated to moving supplies which are under the command of the quartermaster.


political machinery

political machinery (usually uncountable, plural political machineries)

From the analogy between political machine and machinery.

political machines
political machine#English

(US, politics, chiefly historical) The existence or activity of political machines.


crony capitalism

crony capitalism (usually uncountable, plural crony capitalisms)

While many things can be blamed for the rampant crony capitalism in India (e.g., British imperialism, the License Raj, etc.), we are particularly interested in understanding what role cultural values play in fostering crony capitalism.

2017, Naresh Khatri, Abhoy Ojha, Crony Capitalism in India: Establishing Robust Counteractive Institutional Frameworks, Springer, →ISBN, page 118:

(politics, idiomatic) A form of capitalism in which success in business depends on corrupt close relationships with government officials, often implying favouritism.


regressive left

The earliest use may be from a joke post on the Internet in 1998. Attested in print as early as 2002 in Chuck Morse’s The Gramsci Factor, and later popularized by Maajid Nawaz in 2012.

(derogatory, politics) A characterization of the left which suggests that it paradoxically holds reactionary views by its tolerance of illiberal principles and ideologies (such as extremist Islamism) for the sake of multiculturalism and cultural relativism.


cultural Marxist

en-adj

cultural Marxist (comparative more cultural Marxist, superlative most cultural Marxist)

more cultural Marxist (comparative)
most cultural Marxist (superlative)

(derogatory, politics) Typical of cultural Marxism.


cultural Marxist

en-noun

cultural Marxist (plural cultural Marxists)

(derogatory, politics) Somebody who perpetuates cultural Marxism.


identity politician

identity politician (plural identity politicians)

There are those who contest the very idea of identity politics or try to reduce it to a minimum. They would prefer that rights be derived wholly from function and reason. Then, there are those who like some identities but not others. Ranged against them, as it were, are the identity politicians, who insist that all problems are derived from identity and should be solved by the criteria of identity.

2000, George Schöpflin, Nations, Identity, Power: The New Politics of Europe, page 9:

You can think of Bailey as an identity politician's worst nightmare. Bailey is attacking the by-now accepted scientific view that whom you love and who you identify yourself to be are not the same issue.

2007, Kevin G. Barnhurst, Media Q: Media/queered: Visibility and Its Discontents, page 85:

(politics) An advocate of or participant in identity politics.


regressive leftist

en-adj

regressive leftist (comparative more regressive leftist, superlative most regressive leftist)

more regressive leftist (comparative)
most regressive leftist (superlative)

(neologism, derogatory, politics) Characteristic of the regressive left.


regressive leftist

en-noun

regressive leftist (plural regressive leftists)

(neologism, derogatory, politics) A member of the regressive left.


neo-reactionary

en-adj

neo-reactionary (comparative more neo-reactionary, superlative most neo-reactionary)

more neo-reactionary (comparative)
most neo-reactionary (superlative)
neoreactionary (alternative)
NRx (alternative)

/ˌniːəʊɹɪˈakʃn̩(ə)ɹi/

From neo- + reactionary, in the contemporary meaning popularized in a 2010 blog post.

Following the outbreak of a revolution in Bolivia in December, 1943, the CTAL labeled the new Bolivian regime a "neo-reactionary victory" and pointed out that "their aim is undemocratic […]".

1945, Labor Fact Book, volume 7, page 197:

Austria narrowly avoided installing a neo-reactionary president in last year’s two elections.

2017 April, Andrew Sullivan, “The Reactionary Temptation”, in New York Magazine:

Neoreactionary thought contends that the world would operate much better in the hands of a few tech-savvy elites in a quasi-feudal system.

2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics, chiefly derogatory) Reacting against the (especially liberal) values of the modern world; now typically seen as characterised by opposition to egalitarianism, support for strong centralised government, and espousal of conservative economic policies.


neo-reactionary

neo-reactionaries (plural)
neoreactionary (alternative)
NRx (alternative)

/ˌniːəʊɹɪˈakʃn̩(ə)ɹi/

With the accession to power of the neo-reactionaries, Nixon and then Reagan, the timber companies and the "immediate gratification" right took complete charge.

Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries, democracy has actually done more harm than good. They propose a return to old-fashioned gender roles, social order and monarchy.

2013 November 23, Klint Finley, “Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2013-12-02:

Since 2013, he has become a guru for the US-based far-right movement neoreaction, or NRx as it often calls itself. Neoreactionaries believe in the replacement of modern nation-states, democracy and government bureaucracies by authoritarian city states, which on neoreaction blogs sound as much like idealised medieval kingdoms as they do modern enclaves such as Singapore.

2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian:

(politics, chiefly derogatory) Someone who holds such views.


GOTV

get out the vote
get out the vote#English

(chiefly US politics) Initialism of get out the vote.


RFX

(security, law enforcement) Abbreviation of recognition of firearms and explosives (a skill and qualification).


Black Panthers

(US politics) A Black Power political party in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s.


Remoaner

I am an unapologetic Remoaner, who regards Brexit as an unparalleled disaster.

2018 January 4, David Millward, “Even I, a snowflake Remoaner, feel it's about time we honoured Nigel Farage”, in Daily Telegraph:

Today, the Sun launches Remoaner Watch – starting with leading figures from the world of politics and the media (plus the entire BBC) for whom a love of all things EU still burns bright.

2022 June 18, Grant Rollings, “The Sun’s Remoaner Watch is on the lookout for evidence of Remoanery”, in The Sun:

For others, it’s the Blob or the “remoaner elite”, made up of the civil service, the BBC, the universities, the unions: anyone who, along with desperate refugees in small boats, can be blamed for standing between Britain and the promised Brexit nirvana.

2023 May 19, Jonathan Freedland, “They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed”, in The Guardian:

2023 September 11, David Maddox, “Remoaner group who handed out EU flags at BBC Proms named and shamed after funding plea”, in Daily Express:

(UK politics, derogatory) A Remainer; one who complains about or rejects the outcome of the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.


ULP

Settlement of an ULP charge which required the parties to reopen the existing collective bargaining agreement did not remove the collective bargaining agreement as a bar.

1996 May 7, The Judge Advocate General's School, “The Representation Process”, in The Law of Federal Labor-Management Relations, Charlottesville: US Army, JA 211, page 21:

unfair labor practice
unfair labor practice#English

(US politics) Initialism of unfair labor practice.


Remainer

Remainers (plural)
remainer (alternative)

During the years following the EU referendum, Brexiters and Remainers both claimed him as their own.

2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 39:

(UK politics) Someone who supports the United Kingdom remaining within the European Union.


beskozyrka

en-noun

beskozyrka (plural beskozyrki or beskozyrkas)

beskozyrki (plural)
beskozyrkas (plural)

(nautical, navy) A flat visorless sailor's cap.


crucifix position

crucifix position (plural crucifix positions)

He shines in the gym, floors his opponents in Greco-Roman wrestling and effortlessly holds a crucifix position on the rings.

2007, Philippe Grimbert, Secret, page 26:

(gymnastics, wrestling) A posture of the body wherein the legs are kept straight together and the arms are extended horizontally.


clown-car primary

clown-car primary (plural clown-car primaries)

Two Months into Republicans' Clown Car Primary, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds Voters Turning against the GOP - Again [title]

2012 March 5, Jon Ponder, “Two Months into Republicans' Clown Car Primary, WSJ/NBC Poll Finds Voters Turning against the GOP - Again”, in Pensito Review, archived from the original on 2012-06-11:

The Republicans held a clown-car primary in 2012 with a dozen debates where their credo of hewing to the party line (more conservative than thou) prevented any candidate from emerging looking presidential.

2015, Michael Page, This Is Your Government On Drugs, Xlibris Corporation, page 282:

They can shake their heads over the seething anger in the Republican electorate, but this nasty and never-ending "clown car primary" is a problem of their own creation.

2016, Joshua Holland, “Big GOP Donors Are to Blame for Their Party's Clown-Car Primary”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 2016-10-19:

(US politics, chiefly derogatory) A primary election with a large number of serious candidates, usually more than four, making it possible that the winner will have been chosen by only a small portion of the electorate.


public enemy number one

John Dillinger, America's Public Enemy No. 1 and the most notorious criminal of recent times, was shot and killed at 10:40 o'clock tonight by Federal agents.

1934 July 22, “Dillinger Slain in Chicago”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-10-26, page 1:

"Sure you never heard of him?" he asked incredulously. "Never," I said flatly. "You must have," he argued. "Why Hamilton was a Public Enemy No. 1 at one time."

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 119:

(US, law enforcement, dated) A person who ranks highest on the federal government's prioritized list of wanted criminal fugitives.


female tank

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(World War I military, historical) an armoured fighting vehicle on caterpillar tracks equipped with machine guns but no cannon.


male tank

(World War I military, historical) an armoured fighting vehicle on caterpillar tracks equipped with cannon.


far leftist

far leftists (plural)
far-leftist (alternative)

(politics) Somebody aligned with the far left.


SABS

(UK, military, historical) stabilized automatic bombsight


hard Brexit

Without question now, Britain is not ready for the negotiations, having spent the past year largely avoiding a real debate on the topic, other than a vague argument over the merits of a “hard Brexit” (as a clean break from the European Union is known), versus a “soft Brexit,” which would require more compromise.

2017 June 9, Steven Erlanger, Katrin Benhold, Stephen Castle, “The British Election That Somehow Made Brexit Even Harder”, in The New York Times:

Büsingen was mentioned amid talk of Britain following the example of Switzerland: outside the EU but with access to its single market through bilateral agreements that accept, among other things, freedom of movement for EU citizens. That all ended abruptly when British prime minister Theresa May steered the UK towards a hard Brexit, promising to prune back EU ties to a minimum to ensure maximum domestic control over borders.

2017 June 23, Derek Scally, “What can the North learn from a small German-Swiss town?”, in The Irish Times:

The hard Brexit case that leaving the customs union need not harm British industry, agriculture, distribution and commerce has been overwhelmingly dismissed by all these areas of the economy.

2019 March 11, Simon Jenkins, “If May loses Tuesday’s Brexit vote, she must back a customs union or go”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The withdrawal of the United Kingdom both from the European Union and from European institutions (e.g. the European single market or the European Union Customs Union).


soft Brexit

The debate over the right terms and conditions for Britain’s departure from the European Union is often simplified into two clashing concepts: a soft Brexit and a hard one. The first tends to be favoured by those who voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, the second by those who voted Leave. Yet what is the real, practical difference between the two? And can bits of both be combined to some degree?

2018 June 25, J. P., “How a soft Brexit differs from a hard one”, in The Economist:

Labour's vision for a soft Brexit would have seen Britain remain closely aligned with the EU customs, tariff and regulatory regimes and the continent's single market. Such a relationship would have meant that Britain would continue to allow EU migrants to live and work in the United Kingdom, while withdrawing from the EU legislature.

2019 February 28, William Booth, Karla Adam, “UK Parliament votes down Labour's bid for a soft Brexit”, in New Zealand Herald:

(UK politics) The (hypothetical) withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union while generally remaining in European institutions (e.g. the European single market or customs union).


in the tank

[J]ournalists were stung by a pair of "Saturday Night Live" skits that portrayed them as in the tank for Obama.

2008 May 5, Howard Kurtz, “Media Notes: Obama's Chilly Spring”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2016-11-02:

"We are working hard to get the word out and meet the people, but in some ways it seems as if the press is in the tank for Villaraigosa."

2009 February 11, “Craig Rubin: L.A. mayoral candidate”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2016-11-02:

Leading the charge of the utterly crazy is, you won’t be surprised to hear, Donald Trump, who has accused the Fed of being in the tank for Democrats.

2016 February 12, Paul Krugman, “On Economic Stupidity”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-11-02:

(idiomatic, US, politics, often followed by for or with) Supportive, approving, favorably disposed.


Trumpette

From Trump + -ette. Named after American celebrity, businessman, politician and President Donald Trump

named-after

Toward the end of dinner, my three Trumpettes and I did a "live" iPad interview with Good Morning Great Britain. We enthusiastically told all the Queen's men and women how excited we were and how we knew our man would win.

2019 January 9, Toni Holt Kramer, Unstoppable Me, Dog Ear Publishing, page 360:

Perhaps the Trumpers and Trumpettes should make new hats with MASA — Make America Sick Again.

2020 April 30, Marilyn Sisk, “Sensible steps”, in Traverse City Record Eagle, page 4:

In light of the above, it should be no surprise that white women are the backbone of today’s white nationalist movement. Tradwives, Mommy Vloggers, Trumpettes, and other white women's groups are the hidden movers of today’s white supremacist politics.

2022 May 31, Christina Cavener, “United by White Supremacy: Women's Contributions to a "Whites Only" Citizenship Across the Generations”, in JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, page 98:

(US politics) A female supporter or fan of Donald Trump, especially during his Presidential campaign to become President of the United States of America


Bushie

(US, politics) A political supporter or fan of U.S. President Bush (either Bush 43, or Bush 41, or both Presidents George Bush)


Bremainer

2016 August 2, Hayley Kirton, “Bremainer and Brexiteer team up to bolster British businesses”, in City A.M.:

The only question I am hearing wherever I go at the moment – apart from, ‘Have you been sacked from Top Gear yet for only getting nine million viewers a week?’ – is, are you a Brexiteer or a Bremainer? Are you in or out?

2016 June 11, Chris Evans, “BMW’s new mini monster is here. Get set for some... M-azing pace!”, in The Daily Mail:

(UK politics) Someone in favour of Britain remaining within the European Union.


jungle primary

en-noun

jungle primary (plural jungle primaries)

(US politics) A primary election in which all candidates run against each other, regardless of political affiliation, with a possible runoff if no candidate wins an absolute majority.


reich winger

reich wingers (plural)
reich-winger (alternative)

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

(US, slang, politics, derogatory) A right-winger, especially an advocate for more extreme or militant views.


moonlight requisition

moonlight requisition (plural moonlight requisitions)

They were clever in finding local material, such as parachutes, for making bedcovers or curtains, and so-called "moonlight requisitions" were sources of supply for material to make furniture.

1966, Margaret Craighill, “The Women's Army Corps”, in Robert Anderson, Albert Glass, Robert Bernucci, William Mullins, editors, Neuropsychiatry in World War II, volume 1, →OCLC, page 468:

(military slang) Unauthorized taking of materiel; theft of supplies for use in one's own unit.


moonlight requisition

en-verb

moonlight requisition (third-person singular simple present moonlight requisitions, present participle moonlight requisitioning, simple past and past participle moonlight requisitioned)

moonlight requisitions (present singular third-person)
moonlight requisitioning (participle present)
moonlight requisitioned (participle past)
moonlight requisitioned (past)

The soldier learns informally in his basic military training experience to "moonlight requisition" or steal that which his unit needs.

1990, Clifton Bryant, “The social context”, in Deviant Behavior: Readings in the Sociology of Norm Violations, New York: Hemisphere, →ISBN, page 18:

(military slang) To steal or use materiel without authorization.


USMJP

(US politics) Abbreviation of United States Marijuana Party.


elex

Clipping of election + -x (abbreviation marker).

I agree, but all that means is that the people can wait for the next election to boot out an unsatisfactory leader. And it looks like the elex will be held on time.

1996 May 3, M. Emily Cummins, “Re: Boris Yeltsin”, in alt.current-events.russia (Usenet):

[see title]

2016 October 20, Cameron Joseph, “Denial of democracy: Paranoid Trump won't commit to elex result”, in New York Daily News:

“Contrary to #disinfo floating around, CISA doesn’t print or audit ballots! We offer cyber support to state and local elex officials. Don’t fall for these efforts to confuse and undermine confidence in the election,” Chris Krebs, director of DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, tweeted.

2020 November 6, Zachary Cohen, “Top Homeland Security official knocks down disinformation about DHS ballot audit”, in CNN:

(informal, politics) Abbreviation of election.


Grn

(politics) Abbreviation of Green (Green Party).


LIB

(politics) Abbreviation of Liberal Party.

(Canada, politics) Abbreviation of Liberal Party.

Abbreviation of Liberal Party.
Abbreviation of Liberal Party.

Liberal Democrat Party
w:Liberal Democrats (UK)

(UK, politics) Abbreviation of Liberal Democrat Party.

Abbreviation of Liberal Party.
Abbreviation of Liberal Democrat Party.

(politics) Abbreviation of Libertarian Party.

Libertarian Party
w:Libertarian Party (United States)

(US, politics) Abbreviation of Libertarian Party.

Abbreviation of Libertarian Party.
Abbreviation of Libertarian Party.


Prog

(politics) Abbreviation of Progressive Party.


Prog

Progs (plural)
Prog. (alternative)
PROG (alternative)


USMJ

(US politics) Abbreviation of U.S. Marijuana Party.


schoolgirl pin

This story involves a fight that leads to one girl face-sitting and dominating the other. If you aren't interested in reading about schoolgirl pins, face-sitting, smothering then please don't read this.

1997, cactus...@mailmasher.com, “REPOST: My Friend Tanya (ff,nc,smothering,face-sitting,schoolgirl pins)”, in alt.sex.fetish.wrestling (Usenet):

Kaitlyn hits a snap suplex and follows up with a schoolgirl pin for a two count. Kaitlyn goes for a backslide pin, but Tamina rolls through at one. Tamina rolls to the outside to catch a breather, but Kaitlyn catches her with a baseball slide.

2013, Trijcomm, “Kaitlyn defeats Tamina Snuka with a spear.”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

(wrestling) A pin in which the wrestler kneels over a fallen opponent's face so as to restrain the arms above the head.


Trumpista

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A Trumpist.


Drumpf

From German Drumpf, an old form of the surname of the Trump family. Coined by British comedian John Oliver in his February 2016 segment "Donald Trump" of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The form has been confirmed by German officials.

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)


GPO

(Canada, politics) Initialism of Green Party of Ontario.


Westminster bubble

Members of Parliament
Member of Parliament

(UK politics, derogatory) The collective group of Members of Parliament, civil servants, lobbyists, etc., seen as out of touch with the realities of life outside Parliament.


Westminster village

Westminster bubble
Westminster bubble#English

(UK politics, derogatory) Synonym of Westminster bubble.


ethnomasochism

The TV channel Arte, funded by German and French taxpayers, promotes a culture of guilt, ethnomasochism and is infatuated with extreme left-wing causes when it comes to cultural and society-related issues.

2011, jean-mar...@laposte.net, “Arte = das Fernsehen das Dich, das uns verhässt (4)”, in soc.culture.german (Usenet):

We also need to do away with stupid theories of 'colonial and postcolonial exploitation' of poor states. We have had enough ethnomasochism. We keep hearing that they are 'great civilisations'. Let them prove it!

2012, Guillaume Faye, Convergence of Catastrophes, page 188:

Apparently it was not enough to be subjected to endless lectures of ethnomasochism inducing propaganda from hostile professors and naive elementary educators, hammering home the notion since kindergarten that his ancestors were evil […]

2016, Brandon Adamson, Beatnik Fascism, page 8:

(politics, derogatory) Self-loathing on the grounds of one's own race or ethnicity.


noble lie

(politics) A myth or untruth, often of a religious nature, knowingly propagated by an elite to maintain social harmony or to advance an agenda.


mass line

A calque of Chinese 群眾路線／群众路线 (qúnzhòng lùxiàn).

zh-l

群眾路線／群众路线 (qúnzhòng lùxiàn)

(China, politics) The policy of consulting the masses, interpreting their suggestions within the framework of Marxism-Leninism, and then enforcing the resulting policies, as introduced by the Chinese Communist Party.


moonsault

(professional wrestling) An attack where the wrestler faces away from the supine opponent and executes a backflip landing on the opponent in a splash/press position but facing towards the elevated position.


Calexit

Blend of California + exit, modelled on earlier Brexit.

(US politics) The (possible) act of California's secession from the United States.


Islamo-leftism

(politics, neologism) A political alliance between leftists and Islamists.


red-green-brown alliance

en-noun

red-green-brown alliance (plural red-green-brown alliances)

From the colours used by each faction listed in the term. Red is for leftists, green is for Islamists, and brown (as in brownshirts) is for ultranationalists.

(politics) An alliance of leftists, Islamists, and ultranationalists.


big money

Republicans push Big Government to raise cash from one religious sect, but stomp on Big Government antitrust measures that prevent big money control of illegal monopolistic corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft.

2011, Rick Martin, No Money!: The Surviving Middle Class American, page 31:

To oversimplify a bit[…]the [Bernie] Sanders view is that money is the root of all evil. Or more specifically, the corrupting influence of big money, of the 1 percent and the corporate elite, is the overarching source of the political ugliness we see all around us.

2016 January 29, Paul Krugman, “Plutocrats and Prejudice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The political triumph of Donald Trump shattered the establishments in the Democratic and Republican parties – both wedded to the rule of Big Money and to the reign of meretricious politicians.

2016 November 17, Cornel West, “Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here”, in The Guardian:

The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is skeptical: The Republican Party has gone authoritarian. Mitch McConnell is obstructionist. Big money pulls the strings. The system is broken.

2021 August 5, David Brooks, “The Biden Approach Is Working”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(politics) Large corporations, the people who run them, or corporate interest generally, seen as exerting political influence and prioritising profits over other political concerns.