pay to play

pay to play (third-person singular simple present pays to play, present participle paying to play, simple past and past participle paid to play)

pays to play (present singular third-person)
paying to play (participle present)
paid to play (participle past)
paid to play (past)
pay-to-play (alternative)

From sometime practice of charging a fee for admission to a gambling game.

(by extension) To incur a cost to participate in an activity.

(especially US, politics) To make a campaign contribution or illegal payment to avail oneself of business or other opportunities controlled by politicians.


pay to play

Any kind of charge to engage in an activity.

(espeically US, politics) Campaign contributions (or outright bribes or graft) required to avail oneself of certain opportunities controlled by politicians, such as uncompetitive government contracts.


IRF

Immediate Response Force
w:Immediate Response Force

(US military) Initialism of Immediate Response Force.


QRF

(military, US) Initialism of quick react(ion(ary))/response force, an armed military term to define a unit capable of rapidly responding to developing situations, typically to assist allied units in need of such assistance.


tellurocracy

en-noun

tellurocracy (countable and uncountable, plural tellurocracies)

From telluro- + -cracy. Coined by Russian political activist and philosopher Alexander Dugin.

coinage

Probably the United States has realized, a bit too late, that its stake on a pro-Pakistan regime in Afghanistan had been a mistake. Obviously, this was done not for the sake of stake itself: the strategic aim was to penetrate the Heartland. From the point of view of the tellurocracy versus thalassocracy opposition a maritime power (the US) may entrench itself in the IRAFPAK zone.

2000, Farhad Tolipov, “Geopolitical Stalemate in Afghanistan”, in Central Asia and the Caucasus:

Historically, Russians did not immediately realize the significance of their location and only accepted the baton of tellurocracy after the Mongolian conquests of Ghengis Khan, whose empire was a model of tellurocracy.

2015, Alexander Dugin, Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia, →ISBN:

A union of Russia and several different Asian countries would represent the cultural values of tellurocracy, in opposing the movement toward neo-liberal globalization that is at the center of the constellation of maritime powers that is guided by the United States.

2015, Patricia Anne Simpson, Helga Druxes, Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States, →ISBN:

(geopolitics, military) Dominance or supremacy due to military or commercial power on land.

The "thalassocracy" here is the United States and its allies; the "tellurocracy" is Eurasia.

2001, Rénéo Lukic, Michael Brint, Culture, politics, and nationalism in the age of globalization, →ISBN, page 103:

In his works Dugin draws the picture of an ancient confrontation between the Atlantic oceanic powers ("talassocracies"), whose roots go back to the drowned continent of Atlantis and which are headed today by the mondialist United States, and the Eurasian continental powers ("tellurocracies"), whose roots lie in the mythical country of "Hyperborea," the most important of which today is Russia.

2008, Russian Politics and Law - Volume 46, page 15:

If thalassocracies are defined as democratic, commercial and pragmatic, tellurocracies are ideocratic, with a hierarchical organization and guided by a religious ideal.

2014, D Cristea, L Dumitrescu, “The Conservative Vector of Russia's Geopolitics at the Start of the New Millennium”, in Political Science & International Relations, volume 11, number 2:

(geopolitics) A state whose power derives from landbased military or commercial supremacy.


trimount

The allegorical figures standing on trimounts appear like guardians, flanking an archway formed by two fruit trees which frame the composite coat of arms.

1987, Veronika Birke, Walter L. Strauss, The Illustrated Bartsch, →ISBN, page 131:

On the shield of king Saint Stephen, the silver patriarchal cross on a trimount symbolizes royal power, the jupon worn over his armour is decorated by the family coat-of-arms of the Árpád dynasty.

1993, Ars Decorativa - Issues 13-15, page 21:

The Spengler Arms According to Siebmacher 's Wappenbuch and Riestap's Armoral General, the ancient (Nuremberg Spengler arms), were: Gules, a beaker argent on a trimount or: in other words, "a red shield emblazoned with a silver beaker resting on three golden hills.

2004, Donald Campbell Spangler, Spangler:

(heraldry) A stylized depiction of three hills or mountains.


eyes right

/ˈaɪ̯z ˈɹaɪ̯t/

/ˈaɪ̯.əz ˈɹaɪ̯t/

(military) A command to a group of soldiers to turn their heads right towards a superior officer.

Augen rechts

distinguished from die Augen links with the article


eyes right

/ˈaɪ̯z ˈɹaɪ̯t/

/ˈaɪ̯.əz ˈɹaɪ̯t/

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

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 225:

(military) A salute given by a group of marching soldiers in the above way to an officier or dignitary.


fire controlman

en-noun

fire controlman (plural fire controlmen)

(US, military) A member of the Navy who carries out repairs and maintenance on weapons, computers, and other equipment.


work the refs

en-verb

work the refs (third-person singular simple present works the refs, present participle working the refs, simple past and past participle worked the refs)

works the refs (present singular third-person)
working the refs (participle present)
worked the refs (participle past)
worked the refs (past)

Slater said that Bush would charm reporters in an attempt to "work the refs" much like a basketball coach will try to cajole and hassle referees in order to influence calls.

2006, James E. Mueller, Towel Snapping the Press, →ISBN:

Today this pressure is better funded and more coordinated on the Right, making their efforts to work the refs, to script our political spectacles, more powerful.

2010, Julie Drew, William Lyons, Lance Svehla, Sound-Bite Saboteurs, →ISBN:

In a sense, for conservatives the “changed his mind” story is a continuation of their efforts to work the refs, this time treating the American people as the referees in a contest over respect for the Supreme Court.

2013, Mark Tushnet, In the Balance: Law and Politics on the Roberts Court, →ISBN, page 28:

Both candidates worked the refs ahead of the game.

2016 September 26, David Goldstein, Anita Kumar, “Trump is still Trump in first debate and Clinton doesn’t take the bait”, in Miami Herald:

ThinkProgress’ Judd Legum suggests Comey was overcorrecting in response to a monthslong assault by the GOP on the FBI’s authority. “Republicans worked the refs at the FBI,” Legum tweeted, “and it worked.”

2016 October 31, Isaac Chotiner, “Donald Trump Is on the Ballot Next Week. Why Are We Talking About Emails?”, in Slate Magazine:

(politics, by extension) To manipulate the press to view one's candidate favorably and to report negative stories on one's opponent.


international socialist

en-noun

international socialist (plural international socialists)

international socialists (plural)
International Socialist (alternative)

(communism) A member of any of various Trotskyist tendencies that hope to form bonds between workers of different countries


Clintonist

A word of caution however is needed in Clinton's relationship with Indochina, bearing in mind that his foreign policy is being determined by Carterites, Reagan Democrats and Clintonists.

This MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) professor, however, is neither a Seguinist nor a Chevenementist but... a Clintonist.

1993, Daily Report: West Europe, page 33:

(US politics) A supporter of Bill Clinton.

Many Clintonists invested their campaign with a self-mythologizing notion that theirs was a historic quest—to achieve, at long last, the greatest of all gender breakthroughs in the history of the nation, or even the world.

2015, Alan H. Levy, The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998: Electoral Failures and the Vagaries of Identity Politics, →ISBN, page 336:

“We find that individuals with only a few followers and individuals with hundreds of followers make up a larger share in the Trump camp than in the Clinton camp, while by contrast individuals with a few dozen to 200 followers have a larger presence among the Clintonists,” say Wu and co.

2016 March 18, “Twitter Facial Analysis Reveals Demographics of Presidential Campaign Followers”, in MIT Technology Review:

2017 July 23, Edward Helmore, "‘Dirtbag left’ takes aim at Clinton supporters", The Observer (UK, Sunday sister paper of The Guardian).
“The fear is we’re going to do ’68 over again and that’s the argument the Clintonists will make – that a battle within the Democratic party will help elect a conservative militia that will then, despite being a sociological minority, craft the institutions so they can remain a political majority.”

(US politics) A supporter of Hillary Clinton.


Clintonist

en-adj

Clintonist (comparative more Clintonist, superlative most Clintonist)

more Clintonist (comparative)
most Clintonist (superlative)

In the 1990s, setting his jaw against Clintonist internationalism, he moved into the public eye once more with his predictions of an impending "clash of civilizations," which made him a cause célèbre, especially among those who hoped that the end of the cold war would not mean the end of cold-war levels of military spending.

2005, Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, “Introduction”, in Catherine Lowe Besteman, Hugh Gusterson, editors, Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back, →ISBN, page 11:

(US politics) Pertaining to the politics of Bill Clinton or his supporters.

2017 July 23, Edward Helmore, "‘Dirtbag left’ takes aim at Clinton supporters", The Observer (UK, Sunday sister paper of The Guardian).
In a recent edition, Chapo co-host Will Menaker accused – and not for the first time – Clintonist liberalism of being the architect of its own defeats.

(US politics) Pertaining to the politics of Hillary Clinton or her supporters.


Berniecrat

(US politics) A Democratic supporter of Bernie Sanders or his policies.


zaptié

(military, hisotircal) A gendarme / carabineer in Italian colonies of the Ottoman Empire


catch-all party

en-noun

catch-all party (plural catch-all parties)

(politics) A political party that appeals to a diverse range of people and viewpoints.


enemy line

50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division
British Army
Gold Beach
Invasion of Normandy
La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur
Landing Craft Infantry

The approach at Trafalgar was from the windward, but Vice Admiral [Cuthbert] Collingwood did order his division to deploy in line of bearing so that the enemy line would be cut in many places, and engaged from the other side, or both sides.

1996, Nicholas Tracy, “The Battle of Trafalgar”, in Nelson’s Battles: The Art of Victory in the Age of Sail, London: Chatham Publ., →ISBN; republished as Nelson’s Battles: The Triumph of British Seapower, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing, Pen and Sword Books, 2008, →ISBN, page 215:

Once the two fleets had met, it was then likely, if not inevitable, that only some of the attacking fleet would make it through the enemy line.

2008, Sam Willis, “Fleet Tactics”, in Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare, Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 132:

With this assault they drive back the thin enemy line, pressing forward through the disordered enemy.

2011, Sam Koon, “Phalanx and Legion: The ‘Face’ of Punic War Battle”, in Dexter Hoyos, editor, A Companion to the Punic Wars (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), Malden, Kingston upon Thames: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN; paperback edition, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015, →ISBN, page 90:

(military) The line of battle of one's enemy.

The aviation service can, in two hours, go 100 miles back of enemy lines and return, bringing important information.

1917, Aircraft Journal, volume 1, page 17:

As we Christians serve our Lord and Master in this world, we are living and working behind enemy lines.

1994, Charles H. Kraft with Mark White, editors, Behind Enemy Lines: An Advanced Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Vine Books, →ISBN, page 7:

There are, however, other practitioners of magic in the cycle that have no concern for God or for the good; the genealogy of this enemy knowledge is clear, and serves as a memorable cautionary tale. For Merlin himself founds this enemy line by dint of a horrendous pedagogical error: victim of the entirely natural magic of falling in love, Merlin teaches Vivian "tel cose quil ne uaut onques a autrui ensegnier", thus signing his own death warrant.

1998, Kathryn Karczewska, Prophecy and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Critiquing Knowledge in the Vulgate Cycle (Studies in the Humanities; 37), New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 92:

Within these (fictional) enemy lines—on the model perhaps of the "amity lines" described by Carl Schmitt—there could emerge the following questions: What is an enemy? Does the term "enemy" gather (or disseminate) a multiplicity of enemies (for the senses of "enemy" are just as many as its figures, as Aristotle would perhaps say)?

2003, Gil Anidjar, “De Inimicitia”, in The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Cultural Memory in the Present), Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 61:

We battle through life to get to God's promise for us. The devil frustrates our effort in that regard, because he knows that if you manage to cross the Red Sea and battle the enemy behind, after you climb the mountains, you will have made it to the Promised Land. So why would he make it that easy for you? he thinks. But there's no good reason to hand him over the victory by staying behind the enemy line after you've been rescued.

2010 November 3, Christiana I. Chineme, “The Negative Side of Pain”, in God Didn’t Do It; He Only Signed Off On It: Living a Purposeful Life through the Storm, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, part II (Some of the Reasons God Takes Us through Trials and Tribulations), page 142:

(military, also figuratively, usually in the plural) The boundary of the territory controlled by the enemy.


party leader

(politics) a person in charge of a political party.


party member

(politics) A person who belongs to a political party.

partisoldat c (hardworking member, lit. "party soldier")


communist party

communist party (plural communist parties)

communist parties (plural)
Communist Party (alternative)

(politics) A political party which advocates communist ideals.

Communist party
List of communist parties


post-left

From post- + left.
Attested earliest in Bob Black's book Anarchy after Leftism (written in 1996, published in 1997), although Black assumed then that the expression was in circulation.

(politics) Designating a form of anarchism that aims to move away from traditional leftism.


white nationalism

(politics) The political ideology that white people (Europeans) are a distinct race and should form an ethnic state.


white nationalist

white nationalist (plural white nationalists)

(politics) A person who believes in white nationalism.


PDEA

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
w:Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency

(Philippines, law enforcement) Acronym of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.


NBI

National Bureau of Investigation#English

(Philippines, law enforcement) Initialism of National Bureau of Investigation.


NBP

New Blue Party
w:New Blue Party of Ontario

(Canada, politics) Abbreviation of New Blue Party.


CPP

Communist Party of the Philippines
w:Communist Party of the Philippines

(Philippine politics) Initialism of Communist Party of the Philippines.


chain shot

chain shot (countable and uncountable, plural chain shots)

chain shots (plural)
chain-shot (alternative)
chainshot (alternative)

(historical, military, nautical) A projectile consisting of two cannon balls or half balls linked by a chain, fired from cannons mostly to attack spars and rigging.

kettingkogel

projectile consisting of two cannon balls linked by a chain


neo-Trotskyism

(communism) Trotskyist theory updated for the contemporary era.


permanent revolution

permanent revolution (countable and uncountable, plural permanent revolutions)

(communism) The theory that socialism can be obtained without the country first experiencing a period of capitalism. The revolution must furthermore become an agent for other anticapitalist revolutions around the globe, in part to secure the revolution abroad.


pioneer scarf

pioneer scarf (plural pioneer scarves or pioneer scarfs)

pioneer scarves (plural)
pioneer scarfs (plural)

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


(US, military) A personnel file detailing the background and history of a member of the United States armed forces.


slit trench

(military) A narrow defensive trench sufficient for one or two soldiers.


NCOIC

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

(military) Abbreviation of NCO-in-charge, referring to a non-commissioned officer.


USAMU

(US, military) Abbreviation of United States Army Marksmanship Unit.


USAMRIID

Infectious Diseases
infectious disease#English

(US, military, pathology) Abbreviation of United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases


sarkari

Borrowed from Hindi सरकारी (sarkārī). The usage of "sarkari" as a negative term originated from Khalistani supporters who condemned Sikhs who supported the government of India.

sarkari Musalman

a Muslim who favours BJP policies instead of Muslim activism

They argued that households which had received loans from other government programmes such as the Integrated Rural Development Programme, should not be entitled to ecodevelopment funds as their 'quota' for sarkari money was full.

2007, Kuldip Singh Gulia, Ecology and Environment in the Himalayas, page 285:

Instead of sticking to practices followed aeons ago of sarkari school education, he should have sent him to a good convent where it was mandatory to speak in English even during the lunch break.

2012, Ashwini Bhatnagar, The High Bouncing Lover, page 24:


barracks lawyer

barracks lawyer (plural barracks lawyers)

"'Life?' Do you call this 'life,' you barracks lawyer?" he growled in his bronzed Adam's apple.

1912 September, Clarence L. Cullen, “The Hangman and Pedro Salazar”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume XLVII, number 6, page 944, column 1:


prayer card

Normally sittings of the House of Commons begin with prayers and, at intervals along the back of each bench, there are little brass frames for holding prayer cards.

2009, Dennis Canavan, Let the People Decide: The Autobiography of Dennis Canavan:

(UK, politics) In the House of Commons, a card reserving a seat for a backbencher during prayers and for the rest of the day.


verré

the arms of the said Robert, and the rest of the la Wardes, being verré, argent, and black, stand very old in Burton church.

1751, letter published in The Gentleman's Magazine (1751), page 407


FIR

FIR (countable and uncountable, plural FIRs)

first information report
w:first information report

(South Asia, Singapore, law enforcement) Initialism of first information report.


BPF

Botswana Patriotic Front
w:Botswana Patriotic Front

(Botswana, politics) Initialism of Botswana Patriotic Front.


bag nasty

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


INDOC

(US, military) Abbreviation of indoctrination.


varriated

Urdée, in point, or contrary urdée, termed also varriated, point in point. See Plate XLIX. No. 2, fig. 32, viz. barry of six, contrary urdée; by some blazoned, barry of six, champion—barry of six, per pale, varriated, point in point—

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

Variated—[See VARRIATED.] […]Varriated—(var'-ri-ated) A bearing cut in the form of vair; as, a bend varriated on the outsides.

1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 66:

(heraldry) Cut in the form of vair; battlemented with solid projections and crenelles, both pointed, but in the latter case reversed.


Pol Potist

(politics) Of or pertaining to Pol Potism.


Pol Potism

(politics) The political philosophy of Pol Pot.


bump stock

bump stocks (plural)
bumpstock (alternative)
bump-stock (alternative)

(firearms) An attachment on a gun used to make it fire repeatedly by using the gun's recoil to pull the trigger, modifying it to function in a similar way to a machine gun.


sand table

(military) A sandbox raised on legs for soldiers to play and plan tactics.


neo-Stalinist

en-adj

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

more neo-Stalinist (comparative)
most neo-Stalinist (superlative)

(politics) Of or pertaining to neo-Stalinism.


He was wearing the normal jungle fatigues and had a .45 in a holster on his waist.

2013, T. Van Ewell, Recon Airplane Company: III Corps, Vietnam, page 182:

(firearms) A standard kind of firearm designed to fire bullets that are approximately 0.45 inch in diameter.


I had hoped that he had a .38 on him but that wasn't the case.

2012, Arnie Greenberg, A Fine Conundrum: A 'Joey Fine' Mystery, page 165:

(firearms) A standard kind of firearm designed to fire bullets that are approximately 0.38 inch in diameter.


I would rather have a .22 than an axe or a club, that's for sure

2001, Chilco Choate, The Fire Still Burns: A Life of Trail Talk and Contrary Opinions, page 29:

(firearms) A firearm chambered for a .22-caliber rimfire cartridge.


ACMI

(aviation, military) Initialism of air combat maneuvering instrumentation.


butt spike

Meanwhile, the men in the middle and rear pushed those in front, while simultaneously providing cover from javelins and arrows with their raised pikes and stabbing fallen adversaries with the butt spikes.

2002, Robert L. O'Connell, Soul of the Sword: An Illustrated History of Weaponry and Warfare from Prehistory to the Present:

(historical, weaponry) A small blade or spike on the rear end of a spear, used as a counterbalance and as a backup if the spear broke.


weight class

(martial arts) A division of competition used to match competitors against others of their own weight


half-pike

1709-1711, The Tatler
paying the Salute with the Halfpike

(military) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon


Young England

(UK politics, historical) A Victorian group of young Tory politicians who opposed free trade and radicalism and professed a sentimental attachment to earlier forms of social life in England.


Young Ireland

(politics, historical) An Irish political, cultural and social movement of the mid-19th century that began as a tendency within Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association but eventually split to found the Irish Confederation in 1847.


Young Italy

(politics, historical) A political movement for Italian youth, founded in 1831 by Giuseppe Mazzini, and aiming to create a united Italian republic through promoting a general insurrection in the Italian reactionary states and in the lands occupied by the Austrian Empire.


loggie

To successfully plan and execute a rapid response package, the loggie must be brought in at the earliest stage of planning.

2000, Air Force journal of logistics, volume 24, number 3, page 40:

(slang, often military) A person who works in logistics.


jelloped

jellopped (alternative)
jowloped (alternative)
jowlopped (alternative)
jolloped (alternative)

Sable a cockatrice displayed argent, crested, membred, and jelloped, gules, name, Buggine.

1827, Hugh Clark, A Short and Easy Introduction to Heraldry, page 128:

-[...] on a chief sable, a dexter hand between two cocks argent, armed , wattled, and jelloped gules.

1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 462:

Azure, a cock argent, armed, crested, and jelloped gules.

1909, Eugene Zieber, Heraldry in America, page 280:

(heraldry) Having pendant wattles, often of a specified tincture.


CTCRM

w:Commando Training Centre Royal Marines

(UK, military) Initialism of Commando Training Centre Royal Marines.


death slide

If you've planned for an army regiment to set up zip wires and death slides in the beautiful grounds of a large country house for a sales conference activity, do ensure that the country house is agreeable and get the confirmation in writing!

2012, Simon Maier, In Any Event: Top Tips on Managing Any Corporate Event, page 57:


brown-water navy

en-noun

brown-water navy (plural brown-water navies)

Gunboats and other vessels with shallow drafts that could navigate inland waterways were part of the Civil War's brown-water navies.

2005, Clifford L. Linedecker, Civil War, A to Z: The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict, page 57:

(military, nautical, loosely) A naval force capable of military operations in riverine and coastal environments.

(military, nautical, strictly) A naval force capable of military operations only in inland waters.

(military, nautical) The portion of a naval force that is optimized for riverine operations.


mountain leader

mountain leader (plural mountain leaders)

(military) A military operative who specializes in leading, or delivering training for, operations at high altitudes or very low temperatures.


zero fighter

/ˈzɪəɹəʊ faɪ.tə(ɹ)/

I was a zero fighter too before November last year. My dad installed a doorway bar and every time I did lots and lots of assisted pull-ups. A week later, I could pull one and could reach 4 by the end of the year.

2004 October 30, “Help on Pull up!!!”, in SgForums (site), retrieved 2017-10-18:

I used to be a zero fighter, which meant my chin-ups count was a mere zero – I couldn’t lift up my 72kg body up the bar when I first enlisted.

2010 January 10, Sithu, “Chin up: How to increase your chin up reps?”, in NS'S DIGEST (blog), retrieved 2017-10-18:

Whether you are a zero fighter (you cannot do a single chin-up) or someone who can do enough to meet the IPPT gold standard, you will find a chin-up style suited to your current level of fitness.

2010 November 2, “The Complete Chin-Up Guide”, in Men's Health, Singapore (site), archived from the original on 2017-06-15:

Being physically not so fit since young, I struggled myself during my Basic Military Training time, without being able to pass my IPPT or SOC. I was a zero-fighter for chin-up during IPPT (i.e. I couldn’t do any).

2013, “NDP 2013 - Singapore My Story Competition Submission”, in Singapore Memory Project, Singapore (blog), retrieved 2017-10-18:

If you’re a ‘zero-fighter’, the underhand grip makes it easier for you to earn your first rep.

2014 June 18, “Over- or Underhand: The Best Way To Clear The Pull-up Station”, in Men's Health, Singapore (site), archived from the original on 2017-10-03:

I stared in awe as my army mates did 20 pull-ups at one go. I decided that I had to work on my fitness again. The memory of being mocked as a "zero fighter" still haunts me and motivates me to push the limit.

2015 August 4, Joan Chew, The Straits Times, Singapore, retrieved 2017-10-18:

(Singapore, usually military) A person who is unable to perform a single pull-up or chin-up.


ninja van

From ninja, referring to the way they stealthily appear + van.

When you are in the middle of a godforsaken exercise area, dying of heat and sick of combat rations, the Ninja Van with its supply of cold canned drinks, junk food, and beehoon is like seeing an oasis.

2010 September 9, “Hitler Finds Out about his NS Recognition Award: Comments”, in The Mr Brown Show (blog), archived from the original on 2017-04-30:

The arrival of the ninja van, with its fried bee hoon, nasi lemak and soft drinks, was perhaps the best consolation in an otherwise boring range where sections of trainees sat on long wooden benches waiting for their turns.

2013 May 1, “Once in Our Life, Two Years of Our Time”, in Remember Singapore (blog), retrieved 2017-10-18:

Not sure if your unit/exercise involves you being in the mountains, but if it does, there are these food vans that we called "ninja vans", because they turn up out of nowhere; you don't find them, they find you.

2014 August 12, “I am going to Taiwan for NS! Advice please?”, in Reddit Singapore (site), retrieved 2017-10-18:

For any Singaporean who has been conscripted for National Service in the Singapore Armed Forces, the phrase ‘ninja van’ should immediately conjure up images of a pop-up food stall on wheels, stealthily appearing out in the field when tired bodies are in need of sustenance.

2015 September 25, Colin Tung, “Four hours of sleep is enough, there is never nothing to do: Ninja Van CEO”, in Yahoo! News (site), retrieved 2017-10-18:

Stocked with snacks and drinks, the ninja van is a welcome sight for any soldiers doing outfield activities.

2017 May 31, “Ninja Van: A snack-laden van which always shows up when we need it the most”, in SAFRA SG Instagram (blog), retrieved 2017-10-18:

(Singapore, informal, military) A pop-up food van that appears during field training to sell food and drinks to soldiers.


LOH

(US military aviation) Acronym of light observation helicopter.


boodle fight

From boodle (“candy and snacks”, U.S. Military West Point Academy slang) + fight, initially adopted from the U.S. Military Academy by the Philippine Military Academy, which spread across the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) before spreading to the populace.

compound

(Philippines, military) A large communal meal where food is placed directly on top of banana leaves across a long table where diners typically eat standing with their hands or plastic gloves, usually without cutlery.

AFP
Philippine Military Academy
U.S. Military Academy
West Point Academy
boodle fight


IWB

(firearms) Initialism of inside the waistband.


drop tank

(firefighting) A portable tank used at the scene of a fire to hold water from the fire engine.


wimin

(feminism) Alternative spelling of women.


womin

LF 36, Pisces, would like to meet a special womin with Holistic inter arts affection.

1986 April 19, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

(feminism) Alternative spelling of woman.


urdé

Possibly from a misreading of French [croix] vidée (“reduced [cross]”), in croix aiguisée et vidée, a cross pointed and reduced or voided.
Alternatively, from Anglo-Norman urdee, ordé (“pointed”), ultimately from Frankish *ord (“point”), from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”). More at English ord.

der

A cross urdé seems to be the same with what we otherwise call chleche, or chlechée. See CHLECHE.

1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica or a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences …:

The sacred monogram is engraved on the bowl, the top of the letter I forming a cross urdé.

1891, Surrey Archaeological Society, Surrey Archaeological Collections: Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, page 344:

Badge : A Cross-urdé resting on wreath of laurels and oak banded gold.

The decoration consists of a cross urdé enamelled white with gold edges, resting on a wreath of laurel and oak enamelled green . In the centre, edged with gold, is a circular plaque enamelled crimson bearing the cypher […]

1919, Henry Taprell Dorling, Ribbons and Medals: Part 1-2, page 37:

In heraldry, as many as 285 varieties of cross have been recognized, but the twelve in ordinary use, and from which the others are derived, are: (1) The ordinary cross; (2) the cross humetté, or couped; (3) the cross urdé[…]

1923, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, A Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, page 301:

(heraldry) Pointed, as a cross, or having a point projected, as a bend; varriated.


non-inscrit

From French non (“not”) inscrit (“registered”).

A non inscrit can produce amendments but he cannot be a rapporteur.

1972, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by Command:

Lastly, a pair of moves that are invisible in Table 17-4 involves one non-inscrit who affiliated with the Gaullist group only to return to the ranks of the non-inscrits one week later.

1986, Philip E. Converse, Roy Pierce, Political Representation in France, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 548:

The vice-presidents are members, along with the chairs of the six permanent commissions, the rapporteur général of the finance commission, the presidents of the political groups (including a delegate representing the non-inscrits) [...]

2009, P. Smith, The Senate of the Fifth French Republic, Springer, →ISBN, page 178:

(politics, especially in France and UK, Ireland) An independent politician.

Finally there is the group of the 'Non Inscrits', which traditionally has been dominated by extreme-right members.

2009, Jacques Thomassen, The Legitimacy of the European Union After Enlargement, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

What she meant, of course, was that she was fed up with being a 'non inscrit' member and would like to be accepted into our group.

2011, Nigel Farage, Flying Free, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

The EFDD therefore captures the complex dynamics at work within the Parliament where there are now many Eurosceptic MEPs, in the EFDD, the European Conservative Reform Group (ECR), the ENF, and among the non-inscrit, but the diverse nature of that scepticism and disagreements over many policy areas make it very difficult to maintain harmony within and across such eclectic groupings for a full five-year parliamentary term.

2016, Michelle Cini, Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan, European Union Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 162:

(politics) A member of a party which is not part of a European political group.


sickular

(India, derogatory, slang, politics) A leftist; in Indian politics, a secularist, either partaking in tokenism, or opposed to Hindu nationalism.


bhakt

kattar

towards strict and overtly-devout Hindus

andh bhakt

blind devotee; Indian politics; referring to a fervent supporter

desh bhakt

devotee of the nation; Indian politics; a patriot

Ram bhakt

devotee of Rama; politics; a worshipper of Rama or a fervent supporter of Hindutva

Even if Modi didn't look closely at his tweets, his team and followers certainly did. If the Gandhi family had their political chamchas, Modi had his 'Internet Hindus' (or bhakts, as I called them).

2015, Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India:

For example, I've met Modi myself and interviewed him twice. But these Modi bhakts might pray to him every morning, yet they'll never enjoy such access.

2016, Sonali Acharjee, Look Up: Social Media and the Addiction No One Is Talking About:

Our nation is divided into Modi Bhakts and Aaptards (#SorryCongress). This is why elections are also fought on the appeal of individuals rather than on the actions of the parties (#PaanchSaalKejriwal #AbkiBaarModiSarkar).

2017, Revant Himatsingka, Selfienomics: A Seriously Funny Guide to Living the Good Life:

(India, derogatory, politics, slang) An ardent right-wing Hindu nationalist netizen.

(India, derogatory, politics, slang) An ardent supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party or its leader Narendra Modi.


Bookchinist

In more Bookchinist terms, will humans annex Mars to second nature, or will the species foster a third nature that transcends the legacy of human social nature on Earth?

2005, Rob Kitchin, James Kneale, editors, Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 170:

(anarchism) Of or pertaining to the theories of Bookchin; relating to Bookchinism.


Bookchinism

(anarchism) The theories of Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), American anarchist and political theorist, known for his work on social ecology.


pan-socialist

en-adj

pan-socialist (comparative more pan-socialist, superlative most pan-socialist)

more pan-socialist (comparative)
most pan-socialist (superlative)
pansocialist (alternative)

(anarchism, communism) Encompassing all socialist tendencies.


cease fire

(military) Stop engaging in hostile acts, particularly those involving firearms. A command that troops end the existing status of engaging in hostile action.


Blajorism

He added: ‘Commentators say that the Tories and Labour have merged in the middle into Blajorism but that is far too kind to Labour. Blair is adrift in a sea of fudge.’

1994 September 23, John Arlidge, The Independent:

New Labour leader Tony Blair was described as an advocate of ‘Blajorism’ in recognition of Labour's policy similarities with Major's Conservatives.

2002, Peter Lynch, SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party, page 216:

In short, the characters played by Robert Carlyle had been disenfranchised by the political rush for the centre ground of Blajorism.

2013, Alwyn W. Turner, A Classless Society, Aurum Press, published 2014, page 449:

(UK politics) The policies of Conservative Prime Minister John Major and his successor, the Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, seen as representing one indistinguishable social and economic outlook.


tirret

Sinister, an unicorn, argent; armed, unguled, mained, tufted, ducally collared, or; on the shoulder, a tirret, or. MOTTO.

1813, Barak Longmate (the Younger), The Pocket Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland; ..., page 244:

A bendlet between two tirrets, over all a lion, rampant. […] On the Shield of dripstone^([sic]) of Door, a rose within a wreath; the tirrets are profusely used on the wooden ceiling and in the moulding, both external and internal. The wreath is also met with several times.

1885, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, page 209:

[…] tufted, ducally gorged, with chain reflexed over the back, & charged on the shoulder with a tirret or.

1886, James E. Doyle, The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations, page 190:

(heraldry) A manacle, shackle, or swivel.


LML

(military) Initialism of lightweight multiple launcher.


fail-deadly

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From fail + deadly, modelled on fail-safe.

(military) In nuclear weapons strategy: encouraging deterrence by guaranteeing an immediate, automatic, and overwhelming response to an attack, even if the command-and-control infrastructure has been damaged by the enemy's first strike.


suck the monkey

en-verb

suck the monkey (third-person singular simple present sucks the monkey, present participle sucking the monkey, simple past and past participle sucked the monkey)

sucks the monkey (present singular third-person)
sucking the monkey (participle present)
sucked the monkey (participle past)
sucked the monkey (past)

A new farce, called "The Wigwam," was produced at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday night. [...] As might naturally be expected, Cora has another lover, one Mingo (Mr. Oxberry), known as the "Monkey's Uncle," from his habit of "sucking the monkey."

1847 January 31, “Lyceum Theatre”, in The Observer, London: William [Innell] Clement, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:

(naval slang) To surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube.


senatoriable

(Philippines, politics) A person who is a likely or confirmed candidate for the senate.


Lagting

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


postnationalism

en-noun

postnationalism (usually uncountable, plural postnationalisms)

postnationalisms (plural)
post-nationalism (alternative)

(politics) The theory or conception of the world after the existence of nation-states.


enguiché

From French enguiché, from en- + guiche (“strap for carrying a horn, a shield, etc”).

(heraldry, of trumpets, horns, etc) Having either a strap or a mouthpiece (or the interior of the mouth) which is of a specified tincture.


water battery

(military) A battery nearly on a level with the water.


susp

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of suspect.


take the shilling

en-verb

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

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

/teɪk ðə ˈʃɪlɪŋ/

A reference to the practice during the 18th and 19th century of a recruiting officer getting a person to enlist in the British Army or Royal Navy by accepting (or being tricked into accepting) a shilling, which was then a soldier’s daily pay. The practice was officially ended in 1879.

[O]ne fellow was jilted by his miſtreſs and took the ſhilling in deſpair; […]

1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Mohun Appears for the Last Time in This History”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 135:

I have taken the King's shilling, but perhaps if you came for me they would let me go back with you. I was a fool when I did it. I don't want to be in the army.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Strife in Love”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 182:

(British, military, historical) To enlist as a soldier in the British army or navy by accepting a shilling from a recruiting officer.

värväytyä šillingistä

to enlist as a soldier in the British army or navy by accepting a shilling from a recruiting officer

(military, dated) To enlist as a soldier of any military force; to join the armed forces.


BPP

Black Panther Party
w:Black Panther Party

(politics) Initialism of Black Panther Party.

Botswana People's Party
w:Botswana People's Party

(Botswana, politics) Initialism of Botswana People's Party.


LNP

Liberal National Party
Liberal National Party#English

(Australian politics) Initialism of Liberal National Party (of Queensland).

(Australian politics) Abbreviation of Liberal and National parties (coalition).


ONP

(Pauline Hanson's) One Nation Party
w:Pauline Hanson's One Nation

(Australian politics) Initialism of (Pauline Hanson's) One Nation Party.


PHON

Pauline Hanson's One Nation
w:Pauline Hanson's One Nation

(Australian politics) Initialism of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.


KAP

Katter's Australian Party
w:Katter's Australian Party

(Australia, politics) Initialism of Katter's Australian Party.


NXT

(Australia, politics) Initialism of Nick Xenophon Team.


rustred

[image of (a) papelonné and (b) masculy; caption:] Two shields (a) representing rustred armour, and (b) mascled armour, anno 1100.

1856, Thomas Stewart Traill, Encyclopædia Britannica, Or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, page 323:

(By its interwoven mascles his hanberk^([sic]) is conspicuously marked.) This was called "rustred armour," as contrasted with "ringed armour," one row of flat rings, about double the usual size, being laid over the other so that two in the upper partially covered one below.

1896, Arthur Perceval Purey- Cust, The Heraldry of York Minster: A Key to the History of Its Builders and Benefactors ; as Shewn in the Stained-glass Windows, and in the Carved Work in Stone, page 110:

[...] blazons argent, pale gules, charged with three fusels in the field pointed downwards and a tortueau azure rustred [translating forata] or and accosted by two similar torteau, bordure argent and gules.

2011 November 10, Un blasonario secentesco della piccola e media aristocrazia romana: Seventeenth century blazonry of the lesser roman aristocracy, Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN, page 52:

(historical and heraldry) Having rustres.


dancette

Apparently from a scribal error for French or Middle French denché, from Old French denché, dansié, from Latin dens (“tooth”).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dancette.

(heraldry) A zigzag or indented line or figure.


SAO

en-noun

SAO (countable and uncountable, plural SAOs)

Specified Associated Organisation
w:Specified Associated Organisation

(UK politics) Initialism of Specified Associated Organisation.


torpedo net

(military, historical) A net hung from a ship by means of horizontal booms, designed to cause an attacker's torpedo to explode some distance away from the hull.


SLAM

SLAM (countable and uncountable, plural SLAMs)

supersonic low altitude missile
supersonic low altitude missile#English

(military, aviation, weaponry) Acronym of supersonic low altitude missile.

stand-off land attack missile
stand-off land attack missile#English

(military, aviation, weaponry) Acronym of stand-off land attack missile.


outdeploy

en-verb

outdeploy (third-person singular simple present outdeploys, present participle outdeploying, simple past and past participle outdeployed)

outdeploys (present singular third-person)
outdeploying (participle present)
outdeployed (participle past)
outdeployed (past)

(military) To deploy more weaponry than an opponent or enemy


nickelling

Further trials were carried out to establish their accuracy life and whether they developed any tendency to nickelling under Service conditions.

1962, Edmund George Barton Reynolds, The Lee-Enfield Rifle, page 158:

(firearms) The metallic fouling of a gun's bore with fragments of bullet casing.


subprefectural

(government) Of or related to a subprefecture


stand-down

(military) A time when soldiers are not on alert


risbank

(military, historical) A piece of ground upon which a fort is constructed to defend a post.


facelock

He raised his right arm and clamped a facelock on his opponent.

1995, Gordon D. Shirreffs, The Ghost Dancers, →ISBN, page 146:

I stepped to the side like the world's worst matador and grabbed him in a front facelock. It was the only shoot hold I knew, one that harkened back to my days bouncing at Malarkey's in Calgary.

2011, Chris Jericho, Undisputed: How to Become World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps, →ISBN:

Eventually, someone said, “OK, move the furniture, and let's wrestle.” The deal this night was Les challenging my dad, saying, “Bet you can't hold me in a front facelock.” My dad put the hold on, and Les struggled to free himself, but ended up passing out after a few minutes.

2012, Terry Funk, Scott E. Williams, Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore, →ISBN:

(wrestling) A type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face.


continuing resolution

en-noun

continuing resolution (plural continuing resolutions)

From continuing + resolution. From being an act of congress (a congressional resolution) which extends the situation.

(US politics, law) An act of Congress which extends the current governmental budget situation through allocation of further funds in the same manner as the current budget, to avoid a government shutdown due to lack of allocated funding.


cakeism

From cake + -ism, referring to have one's cake and eat it too.

What is now known as “cakeism” – the idea that the UK can have everything it wants merely because it wants it – is becoming, like climate-change denial, the subject of rational discussion.

2017, The New European, "The delusions of Cakeism", Bonnie Greer, 15 September 2017

The letter is the latest blatant example of British cakeism.

2018, The Guardian, "David Davis's petulant leaked letter is the latest slice of Brexit cakeism", Jonathan Lis, 10 January 2018

The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed.

2021, The Guardian, "The dishonesty of Boris Johnson has finally infected the entire government", Jonathan Freedland, 19 November 2021

Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice.

2021, The Guardian, "The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry", Rafael Behr, 22 December 2021

"Cakeism" has run riot — vast, incoherent ambitions detached from political, economic and business realities.

2022, The Guardian, "Brexit legacy is just the start of incoming PM's problems as cost of living crisis spirals", Will Hutton, 10 July 2022

having one's cake and eating it too
have one's cake and eat it too

(UK politics) The doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations and subsequent deliberations.


eschel

From Middle English eschele, from Old French eschele, eschelle, esciele, eskiele, variants of Old French esquiere, scare ( > modern French échauguette), from Frankish *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a portion, share, division, troop”). Cognate with German Schar. Doublet of share.

der

(military, rare or obsolete) A troop or company.


DONSA

(military) Initialism of day of no scheduled activities.


tradcon

(politics) A person of traditionalist conservative politics.


headscissors

While he was distracted, the Puma ran the length of the ring, leapt into the air and locked both legs around Diablo's neck, taking him down to the mat with a spectacular flying headscissors.

2002, Greg F. Gifune, Night Work, →ISBN:

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A hold in which a wrestler wraps his or her legs around either side of the opponent's head, crossing them under the opponent's chin, and squeezing.


MMP

en-noun

MMP (countable and uncountable, plural MMPs)

The previous chapter explored some of the constitutional and political issues surrounding the formation and change of governments in New Zealand under MMP.

1996, Jonathan Boston, New Zealand Under MMP: A New Politics?, →ISBN, page 116:

While previously Maori have been less likely to vote for a combination of cultural, political, and socio-economic grounds, for two distinct reasons they have a greater incentive to participate under MMP.

2013, Jack Vowles, Proportional Representation on Trial, →ISBN:

mixed-member proportional
mixed-member proportional#English

(politics) Initialism of mixed-member proportional.


stagism

(communism) The theory that society ought to pass gradually in order to arrive at communism: first through capitalism, then through socialism (the worker’s state).


trangle

Bendy of fix Gules and Argent; on a Chief of the last, a Rose of the first, supported by a Trangle (the Diminutive of a Barr. A Fillet , with the English, for the Diminutive of a Chief, of which before) Or, charged with a[…]

1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 73:

The quartered arms of the See were usually arranged in an oval escucheon I. Gules, […] an eagle sable, crowned with an antique crown and supported by a trangle held in its claws, is brochant over the stem of the tree.

1894, John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, page 298:

(heraldry, rare) One of the (rarely used) diminutives of the fess (bar) or chief, a fillet or closet.


reconnaissance in force

reconnaissance in force (countable and uncountable, plural reconnaissances in force)

(military) an attack by a (usually small) body of troops in order to gauge the strength of enemy defences (and make local gains if possible)


heel-and-toe

It is most essential on a passage where the watches are heel and toe, four on, four off, that the watch below be a time of real rest.

1965, Boating (volume 18, numbers 1-6, page 28)

Back when we'd started the heel-and-toe watches, I'd offset the schedule six hours in order to have both squadrons up and ready during the initial attack.

2011, Phil Geusz, No Victory Won, page 354:

(nautical, military) Of a system of watches: comprising equal-length periods on and off watch.


lay a glove on

en-verb

lay a glove on (third-person singular simple present lays a glove on, present participle laying a glove on, simple past and past participle laid a glove on)

lays a glove on (present singular third-person)
laying a glove on (participle present)
laid a glove on (participle past)
laid a glove on (past)

From the sport of boxing, referring to managing to hit someone with one's boxing glove.

“You were so good he couldn't lay a glove on you. You were terrific. He tired to hit you with his knockout punch but you skillfully avoided it - do you remember how his glove whistled harmlessly past your head?

2004, Morris Katz, The Journey, →ISBN, page 78:

In round three, Toxa moved in and out jabbing, scoring often with the bigger man unable to lay a glove on him.

2012, Roland Perry, The Changi Brownlow, →ISBN:

Umbertino couldn't lay a glove on him. Big as he was, all it would have taken was a punch, a single roundhouse and he would have decked him. But the other guy was a grasshopper.

2014, Davide Enia, On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Novel, →ISBN, page 42:


F/L

flight lieutenant
flight lieutenant#English

(military, aviation) Abbreviation of flight lieutenant.


flying camp

(military) A body of troops for rapid motion from one place to another.


power distance

(sociology, politics) A measure of the willingness of individuals to accept the unequal distribution of power within a society or organization.


tax cut

(taxation) A reduction in the rate of tax charged by a government.


toxic femininity

Don’t get me wrong I know many rad Riot Grrris but for me the predominant kinderwhore uniform didn’t seem very different than the toxic femininity mass media was already pushing on me as a fat non white teen […]

2014, Mason J., quoted in Amos Mac & Rocco Kayiatos, "Mr. Transman San Francisco Mason J.", Original Plumbing, Winter 2014, page 33

The obsequious demands of toxic femininity require placing oneself in a diminished role in relation to a more powerful partner, who uses physical, sexual, financial, emotional, or psychological actions or threats of actions to gain or maintain power over another person.

2019, Brenda R. Weber, Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, page 232:

Rather, toxic femininity is a by-product of toxic masculinity – it is the poison which arises in women's bodies and minds when they experience not just the pain of lost love, but the hopelessness of trying to be perfect, not for themselves but for men who ultimately neither understand nor value them.

2024, Van Thanh Binh, Stephen Whitehead, Self-Love for Women: Overcoming Toxic Femininity and Suffering, unnumbered page:

(feminism) The systemic pressure on women to conform to standards of beauty, femininity, modesty, etc., to the detriment of individual agency and well-being.


deblouse

deblouse (third-person singular simple present deblouses, present participle deblousing, simple past and past participle debloused)

deblouses (present singular third-person)
deblousing (participle present)
debloused (participle past)
debloused (past)

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Everybody had debloused their pants long ago to get air circulating.

2013, Sean M. Maloney, Fighting for Afghanistan: A Rogue Historian at War, →ISBN:

(military) To untuck one's trousers from one's boots; unblouse.


wombat trail

(Australian politics, informal) The rural campaign trail, particularly with reference to the National Party.


ABDA

(historical, military) Acronym of American-British-Dutch-Australian Command, a committee of senior military officials during the expected Japanese invasion of Australia in 1942.


Groom of the Stool

en-proper noun

Groom of the Stool (plural Grooms of the Stool)

Grooms of the Stool (plural)
groom of the stool (alternative)

/ˈɡɹuːm əv ðə ˈstuːl/

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From groom (“officer of the English royal household”) + of + the + (close-)stool (“a chamber pot enclosed in a stool or box”).

The leſſer Corporations were [...] his Majeſties gratuities to the Lord of, &c. Marqueſs, &c. Q[ueen] Mother, Lady Nurſe, Groom of the ſtool, that is, the Cloſe ſtool, whether King or Queen (high and advantageous honours) and this diſcended to outlandiſh, as in Land commodities; yea, to pins and brooms; and it was ſaid, to Rags for paper, and Marrow-bones for Kitchin-ſtuff, or greaſe; [...]

1651, Charl[e]s George Cock, English-Law; or, a Summary Survey of the Household of God on Earth; […], London: Printed by Robert White for T. G. and Francis Tyton, […], →OCLC, page 52:

The King hath thirteen Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber, who conſiſt uſually of the Prime Nobility of England, whereof the firſt is call'd Groom of the Stool [...] The meaning is a Groom or Servant of the Robe or Veſtment. He hath the Office and Honour to put on his Majeſties Shirt every morning, and to order the things of the Bed-Chamber[.]

1675, Paul Festeau, “Dialogues”, in Nouvelle Grammaire Angloise, Enrichie de Dialogues Curieux Touchant l’Estat & la Cour d’Angleterre. […] [New English Grammar, Enriched with Curious Dialogues Touching the State & the Court of England. […]], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, London: Chez George Wells, […], →OCLC, pages 193–194:

[T]he Statute enjoyns the Clergy-man to be reſident in and upon his Living, that is, his Parſonage or Vicarage-Houſe, if he have any, and not at any other Houſe in the Pariſh; [...] But the Chaplains of the Chancellor of the Dutchy, Augmentations, Firſt-fruits, Maſter of the Wards, Surveyor General, Treaſurer of the Chamber and Augmentations, and Groom of the Stool, are to be Reſident twice in a year at leaſt, Eight days at each time: [...]

1695, Simon Degge, chapter VII, in The Parson’s Counsellor, with the Law of Tythes or Tything: In Two Books. […], 5th corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns, Esquires, for Richard Sare […], and Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, pages 80–81:

MONTMORENCY (Anne de) firſt baron, peer, mareſchal, high-ſteward, conſtable of France; knight of St. Michael, and of the garter, groom of the ſtool, and governor of Languedoc, &c. was ſecond ſon to William lord of Montmorency.

1743, “MONTMORENCY (Anne de)”, in Historical, Genealogical, and Classical Dictionary. […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, column 2:

The Queen then rises and goes to the faldstool, at which she is to be anointed and crowned, placed between King Edward's chair and the steps of the altar, where the Groom of the Stool to her Majesty (with the two Ladies of her Bedchamber) take off her rich circlet or coronet; when the Queen kneels down, and the Archbishop pours the holy oil on the crown of her head, in the form of a cross, using these words, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost, let the anointing of this oil increase thine honour," &c.

1831 September 1, “A Particular and Historical Account of the Ceremonies usually Observed at the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of Great Britain”, in The World of Fashion, and Continental Feuilletons. […], volume VIII, number 89, London: Printed by Mr. Bell, […], →OCLC, page 211, column 1:

It is the king's pleasure that Mr Norris shall be in the room of Sir William Compton, not only giving his attendance as groom of the stool but also in his bedchamber and other privy places as shall stand with his pleasure. And the king's express command is that none other of the said six gentlemen [of the privy chamber] presume to enter or follow his Grace into the said bedchamber, or any other secret place, unless he shall be called and admitted thereunto by his said grace.

1995, Eric Ives, “Henry VIII: The Political Perspective”, in Diarmaid MacCulloch, editor, The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety (Problems in Focus), Basingstoke, Hampshire, London: Macmillan Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 20:

As David Starkey has delineated in great detail, one of Henry [VIII]'s major administrative achievements was the centralization of court administration in a collection of younger gentry in bodily service to the King. Grooms of the Chamber, Grooms of the Stool, Esquires of the Body – these were the titles granted men who ministered to Henry's private functions, and as Starkey argues, it is this new sense of intimacy that recalibrates the English body politic into a politics of the King's body.

1997, Seth Lerer, “Pretexts: Chaucer’s Pandarus and the Origins of Courtly Discourse”, in Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 22:

The title of Groom of the Stool derived from that gentleman's privilege of attending his sovereign whenever he used the close stool; his duties were to provide him with a flannel "to wipe his nether end" and to summon a Yeoman of the Chamber to empty and clean the pot. Sir Thomas Heneage, Groom of the Stool from 1536 to 1546, was witness to the King's chronic constipation and his efforts to relieve it, [...]

2001, Alison Weir, Henry VIII: The King and His Court, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, 2008, →ISBN, page 81:

As cloacal factotum, the Groom of the Stool presides over the offices of royal excretion; he maintains the royal close-stool and examines its products for signs of health or distemperature; he serves, in this sense, both as a royal confidant and an intermediary between the royal self in its private and public capacities. The Groom's office, in short, involves an "exquisite combination of intimacy, degradation, and privilege" (Paster 1993: 32); [...]

2003, Bruce Boehrer, “The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare’s Theatre”, in Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard, editors, A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, volume IV (The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays), Malden, Mass., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:

The exaltation of a monarch was such that few were fit to dine with one. Meanwhile, as many as eight "grooms of the stool" waited on kings when at privy. A king sat alone at the table and in company at the "throne."

2014, Leonard Sweet, “Setting the Table at Home”, in From Tablet to Table: Where Community is Found and Identity is Formed, Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress in alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, part II (Life’s Three Tables), page 81:

(British, monarchy, historical) Originally an official responsible for helping the English monarch use the toilet; later a senior official who was allowed access to the monarch's privy chamber and served as a personal secretary.


libertarian Marxist

en-adj

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

more libertarian Marxist (comparative)
most libertarian Marxist (superlative)

(communism) Of or pertaining to libertarian Marxism.


libertarian Marxist

en-noun

libertarian Marxist (plural libertarian Marxists)

(communism) One who subscribes to libertarian Marxism.


Trumpworld

So, several figures inside Trumpworld have been wrestling with the very dilemma that animated my fictional characters. Put simply: if you’re convinced that the leader you serve is a danger to your country and the world, where does your patriotic and democratic duty lie?

2018 September 7, Jonathan Freedland, “If you were in the White House, how would you tackle Trump?”, in The Guardian:

Donald Trump's circle of associates, employees and appointees.

The mental landscape of Donald Trump or of his supporters.


Red Shirt

Red Shirts (plural)
red shirt (alternative)
red-shirt (alternative)

The Red Shirts are 'Ordies', or ordnance handlers.

1997, Peter Darman, Warfare at Sea, →ISBN, page 74:

The red lights of the Red Shirts joined the probing.

1988, George C. Wilson, Supercarrier: an inside account of life aboard the world's most powerful ship, the USS John F. Kenedy, →ISBN:

The Red Shirts were the serious ones: they loaded and armed the weapons on the aircraft.

2011, Max Gallimore, From Here to Caprock, →ISBN, page 266:

(US navy) Alternative form of redshirt (“sailor who handles ordinance”).


SERE

(military) Acronym of survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (“training to prepare Western forces to survive when evading or captured”).


Eustonite

(rare, UK politics) Someone who has signed or otherwise supports the Euston Manifesto; a liberal or leftist who supports a neoconservative foreign policy.


Eisenstadt

en-proper-noun

Eisenstadt (countable and uncountable, plural Eisenstadts)

(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Eisenstadt v. Baird, a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that expanded legalized contraception, expanding access to contraceptives to unmarried couples, and effectively legalized premarital sex, under the Equal Protection Clause following the Griswold ruling; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


jeep carrier

(military, nautical, aviation) A general purpose aircraft carrier, used in a variety of ways (hence 'general purpose', "GP" or jeep), such as aircraft transport ship, invasion support airstrip, ocean patrol airstrip, fleet/convoy defense airstrip. They were used to alleviate demands made on fleet carriers which have higher levels of defensive capabilities and underway speeds able to keep up with the battle fleet.


body wire

(fencing) The insulated wire that runs under a fencer's jacket, connecting the Electrical Competition weapon to the reel, and thence to the scoring machine.


sentiment du fer

Borrowed from French sentiment du fer (literally “feeling of the iron”).

bor

(fencing) The ability to feel along the length of a fencing sword through holding only the weapon's grip, a quality of an experienced fencer.


camo up

en-verb

camo up (third-person singular simple present camos up, present participle camoing up, simple past and past participle camoed up)

camos up (present singular third-person)
camoing up (participle present)
camoed up (participle past)
camoed up (past)

Ultimately from camouflage, of camo plus the aspect marker up.

The week prior to the Army-Navy game is anything goes at West Point. Cadets and hard-core instructors “camo up” and wear BDUs (battle dress uniforms) in preparation for the looming clash of the mighty Army black knights and the wimpy, undisciplined Navy midshipmen.

1998 December 5, “A Civil War”, in West Palm Beach Post, page 6E:

[…] No one told them anything about camo, and it takes them ten minutes to do it right.” ¶ “Well, we have five minutes and everyone has to camo-up,” the first sergeant explained patiently.

2010, Greg Hastings, “You must lead yourself first”, in Doug Crandall, editor, Leadership Lessons from West Point, page 38:

(informal, military, hunting) To put on clothing, make-up, etc. with a camouflage pattern, to wear camouflage.

The plan is to have the veterinarian “camo up,” maybe by using a hunting blind, he said, to get close enough to take a shot with a tranquilizer gun.

2009 April 4, Nick Ferraro, “Fans, police, veterinarian hope to rescue Oreo the goat”, in St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dakota County local:

(informal, military, hunting) To camouflage one's person or equipment, to hide or obscure from view.


pointy head

pointy heads (plural)
pointyhead (alternative)
pointy-head (alternative)

(military, slang) A member of military intelligence.


comshaw

en-noun

comshaw (countable and uncountable, plural comshaws)

From Hokkien 感謝 /感谢 (kám-siā, “thanks”).

The practice was so common it was no longer considered stealing. It was comshaw. That kind of thinking made the Iran/Contra arms scandal and Watergate okay at the time. It's comshaw when you do it, but it's stealing when you get caught; it's politics when you do it, but it's illegal when you're found out.

1990, Jay Carty, Something's Fishy: Getting Rid of the Carp in Your Life, →ISBN, page 145:

Mostly by way of "comshaw," a sailor's term for bartering, but it was usually a coffee grounds deal at LBNS.

2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that dive, page 53:

I was able to accomplish these comshaw and midnight small stories because my crew and I knew what we needed! If there were items, which our ship required, left abandoned anywhere, those items were ours. Perhaps the thing that made our activities to recover beached small boats or the comshaw of items from the navy supply depot so easy was the fact that my entire salvage crew was with me on this LST.

2013, James Carl Duncan, Adventures of a Tennessean, →ISBN, page 125:

What a day! Started off with early comshaw run to 2/5—got 2 jackets, 1 boots. Gave 1 jacket to SSgt. Lelansky.

2017, Jean Shellenbarger, The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam, →ISBN, page 35:

(naval slang) The practice of pilfering or bartering for surplus items.


comshaw

en-verb

comshaw (third-person singular simple present comshaws, present participle comshawing, simple past and past participle comshawed)

comshaws (present singular third-person)
comshawing (participle present)
comshawed (participle past)
comshawed (past)

Chips in Las Vegas are as negotiable as green money. You can take them into any club and cash them in for money, for $5 or $10 or whatever it is. So all you've got to do is put a chip in the end of your fingers, turn your hand down like you're trying to touch your wrist, and you can comshaw — or steal — comshaw is a much better word — a $25 chip from a table.

1972, Bruce Jackson, In the life: versions of the criminal experience, page 124:

As soon as she was recommissioned Com7thFleet had comshawed her for his flagship.

2000, Richard Winston, The Gundeckers: A Description of the Michigamme Mutiny, →ISBN, page 99:

He was able to "comshaw" (as they say in the US Navy) the cable from the German engineers at a nearby dam.

2008, Janice Minott, Letters from Kabul 1966-1968: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 119:

Oh, yes, did I mention I comshawed (somewhere between “borrowed” and “stole”) a large map of the US. and plotted my way home?

2013, Dorien Grey, A World Ago: A Navy Man's Letters Home (1954-1956), →ISBN, page 206:

His anger is somewhat satiated by the presence of an amazing arsenal of Special Operations weapons he has managed to beg, borrow and otherwise comshaw.

2014, C. Edward Samuels, Blood & Roses, →ISBN, page 350:

(naval slang) To acquire without officially requisitioning; to pilfer or barter for surplus items.


New Left

The New Left is a product of popular affluence and social change—once the revolutionary goals of the European Left; it does not arise from mass oppression.

1968 July 5, “The ‘New Left’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In theory the New Left wanted to remake society, but in practice old divisions of labor went unchallenged: men got all the glory, becoming leaders and spokespeople, while women were left with the dull office work, their efforts invisible behind the scenes.

2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

(historical, politics) A broad political movement, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, made up of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a range of reforms on issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, and the legalization of drugs.


general officer

en-noun

general officer (plural general officers)

The former of these young men had been adopted by his uncle, who, after a life passed in the army, had died a general officer at a very advanced age, and had left his nephew his whole fortune […].

1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 177:

(military) An officer above the rank of colonel.


OPCW

w:Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

(law, military) Initialism of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.


cocoa powder

cocoa powder (usually uncountable, plural cocoa powders)

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

(firearms) A form of brown gunpowder, also known as brown powder.


human chain

(politics) A form of demonstration in which people link their arms as a show of political solidarity.


school resource officer

school resource officer (plural school resource officers)

(US, law enforcement) A police officer stationed at a school, such as a high school.


Rasputin

Nothing could better describe the numb-skulled thinking behind the havoc that President Donald Trump and his trade Rasputin, Peter Navarro, have wrought on the global economy.

2025 May 5, “This time really is different for the dollar, writes Kenneth Rogoff”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 2025-05-05:

Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916), a Russian mystic.

(politics, by extension) Any influential political advisor who is considered a poor influence due to being a quack or charlatan.


dummymander

(US politics) A gerrymander that has narrow margins to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party and has a high probability of backfiring.


knifehand

(martial arts, often attributive) A strike using the part of the hand opposite the thumb (from the little finger to the wrist); a karate chop.


carqual

(US, military) Abbreviation of carrier qualification: a series of test maneuvers by which a ship demonstrates its fitness for sea duty.


Tomcatter

(US, military, slang) A member of VFA-31, a strike fighter squadron of the US Navy.


SIB

Special Investigation Branch
w:Special Investigation Branch

(UK, military) Initialism of Special Investigation Branch.


countergovernment

countergovernments (plural)
counter-government (alternative)

The Yugoslav federation was foreshadowed in the way armed struggle was organized and by the countergovemment that was forged in armed struggle, embodied in 1943 in the underground parliament called AVNOJ (after its Serbo-Croatian initials).

1995, Catherine Samary, chapter 1, in Peter Drucker, transl., Yugoslavia Dismembered, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 49:

(politics) A government set up in opposition to another government.


Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor (plural Lord Chancellors or Lords Chancellor)

Lord Chancellors (plural)
Lords Chancellor (plural)

The Lord Chancellors of Scotland is a work that could not be produced without the aid of scientific research. The origin of the office is involved in great obscurity, and it has never been finally determined who the first and second Chancellors were. We are indebted to that eminent antiquarian, Mr Cosmo Innes, for much of the information we possess of that early period of Scottish history, the twelfth century. There are few records of that period in existence save charters, issued by the King and signed by the Chancellor, the Chamberlain, the Constable, and various clerical witnesses, and it is remarkable that even these are preserved, considering their great age.

1911, Samuel Cowan, The Lord Chancellors of Scotland: From the Institution of the Office to the Treaty of Union, volume 1, W. & A. K. Johnston Ltd, page v:

(UK politics) The holder of an office in the government of the United Kingdom, held by a Cabinet minister with responsibility for the efficient functioning and independence of the judicial courts.


SHAEF

w:Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

(military, historical) Initialism of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.


tuck up

en-verb

tuck up (third-person singular simple present tucks up, present participle tucking up, simple past and past participle tucked up)

tucks up (present singular third-person)
tucking up (participle present)
tucked up (participle past)
tucked up (past)

(intransitive, boxing) To protect one's face by covering it with the gloves


macaca moment

In reference to US politician George Allen's use of the ethnic slur macaca in 2006.

(US politics, informal) A situation where a politician says something controversial that harms their chances of success.


super recogniser

en-noun

super recogniser (plural super recognisers)

(law enforcement) A person whose face recognition ability is significantly better than average.


Bliar

(derogatory, UK politics) A pejorative nickname for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, usually in reference to his support for the Iraq War.


crisis actor

Finally, the greater the proportion of nondemocracies among crisis actors, the more likely it becomes that escalation will occur.

2000, John A. Vasquez, What Do We Know about War?, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 47:

Cases with minimal crisis actor participation are found in most regions of the global system.

2019, Michael Brecher, Crisis And Change In World Politics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 35:

(politics) A participant in an international crisis.


lozengewise

en-adv

lozengewise (comparative more lozengewise, superlative most lozengewise)

more lozengewise (comparative)
most lozengewise (superlative)

(heraldry) Placed like a lozenge (a diamond).


lozengewise

[…] a lozengewise arrangement, […]

1850, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, page 220:

[…] a lozengewise square, six elongated hexagons and four square panels in the space between the two.

1997, Michele George, The Roman Domestic Architecture of Northern Italy, British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited, →ISBN:

(heraldry) Oriented like a lozenge (a diamond).


lozengeways

lozengeways (comparative more lozengeways, superlative most lozengeways)

more lozengeways (comparative)
most lozengeways (superlative)


BIP

Botswana Independence Party
w:Botswana Independence Party

(Botswana, politics, historical) Initialism of Botswana Independence Party.


foxer

Originally the code name for a British-built version of the device.

(military, historical) An acoustic decoy used to confuse acoustic homing torpedoes by mechanically generating a loud noise while being towed some distance behind a ship.


VIRSS

(military) Initialism of visual and infrared screening smoke.


permanent revolutionary

permanent revolution
permanent revolution

(communism) Of or pertaining to permanent revolution.


permanent revolutionary

en-noun

permanent revolutionary (plural permanent revolutionaries)


Mao-Spontex

democratic centralism
democratic centralism

revolutionary spontaneity
revolutionary spontaneity

(communism) A neo-Leninist, Maoist, and libertarian theory and political movement in Western Europe from 1960 to 1970 advocating for democratic centralism and revolutionary spontaneity from the lower classes.


QRs

Queen's Regulations
w:King's Regulations

(UK, military) Abbreviation of Queen's Regulations.


RSAF

Republic of Singapore Air Force
w:Republic of Singapore Air Force

(Singapore, military, aviation) Initialism of Republic of Singapore Air Force.

Royal Saudi Air Force
w:Royal Saudi Air Force

(military, aviation) Initialism of Royal Saudi Air Force.


dextrochere

(heraldry) A right arm, typically holding a sword.


TESEX

(military) Acronym of tactical engagement simulation exercise.


small-l libertarian

small-l libertarian (plural small-l libertarians)

(chiefly US, politics) A person who holds libertarian views but is not a member of their country's "Libertarian Party".


local board

(military) A civilian board that signs people up for military service in a particular area.


PEBLO

(US, military) Acronym of physical evaluation board liaison officer.


JROTC

/d͡ʒeɪ ɑː(ɹ)əʊ tiː siː/

J.R.O.T.C. programs, taught by military veterans at some 3,500 high schools across the country, are supposed to be elective, and the Pentagon has said that requiring students to take them goes against its guidelines.

2022 December 11, Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Ilana Marcus, “Thousands of Teens Are Being Pushed Into Military’s Junior R.O.T.C.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

w:Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps

(US, military) Initialism of Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.


Never Trumper

Never Trumpers (plural)
never Trumper (alternative)
Never-Trumper (alternative)
never-Trumper (alternative)

From Never Trump + -er, after one of the names applied to the Stop Trump movement.

Trump has slammed Vindman as a “Never Trumper” who he was unfamiliar with. Voting records show Vindman was previously registered as a Democrat. “Supposedly, according to the Corrupt Media, the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness. Was he on the same call that I was?” Trump tweeted. “Can’t be possible! Please ask him to read the Transcript of the call.”

2019 November 18, Aamer Madhani, quoting Donald Trump, “NSC aide Vindman ready to speak out publicly on Trump”, in AP News:

And even if the worst predictions haven’t come to pass, you still won’t feel reassured while someone you fundamentally distrust is making life-and-death decisions on behalf of the country every day; there’s no World War III now, but in the words of the prominent Never Trumper and Atlantic contributor Eliot Cohen, “that’s a pretty low bar.”

2020 March 10, Kathy Gilsinan, “Confessions of an Ex–Never Trumper”, in The Atlantic:

That he is a great man of history whose role is to chastise the liberal intelligentsia and the Never Trumpers and all these groups that failed to govern America, but it doesn’t mean that at the end of the day, he’s actually saving America. Sometimes it’s just a chastisement.

2025 May 1, Ross Douthat, “The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US politics) A conservative, especially a Republican, who opposes Donald Trump.


dilawan

dilawans (plural)
dilawan (plural)
Dilawan (alternative)

Borrowed from Tagalog dilawan, from dilaw (“yellow”).

If the "dilawans" are to survive the Duterte administration, goes the thinking, perhaps being in the good graces of PDP-Laban may work in their favor in the long run.

2017 June 14, Mara Cepeda, “Being 'dilawan' in the Duterte-controlled House”, in Rappler:

The Duterte regime should thank the previous Dilawan president’s Executive Order (EO) No. 201 which provides for a four-year basic pay upgrading in the bureaucracy.

2018 February 5, Tonyo Cruz, “The costs of having a President Duterte”, in Manila Bulletin, archived from the original on 2018-06-15:

In the past few days since the high court ruling came out, the “dilawan” and their minions have started crawling out of the woodwork to denounce the removal of PNoy’s anointed, calling it “the death knell for democracy” or a “drift towards authoritarianism” or some other doomsday forecast.

2018 May 22, Dodo Dulay, “‘Yellow’ propaganda on overdrive over Sereno ouster”, in The Manila Times, archived from the original on 2018-07-26:

(Philippine politics, derogatory) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of the Philippines or the Aquino political dynasty.


finger fan

During gaps of combinations, insert: 1. non-commitements to distract the opponent, or to improve positioning or the flow. 2. delicacy to score without destroying the overall balance and flow of the combination (finger jabs, finger fan, finger flicks, backhand, palm thrust).

1977 February, “Bruce Lee's Attack Strategies for Fighting (Part II)”, in Black Belt, volume 15, number 2, page 60:

In truth, people who require fine use of their hands in their work (artists, surgeons, typists) may favor using palm strikes and finger fans over the more demanding fist or single-finger strikes.

(martial arts) A blow delivered to the face with fingers spread.


Third Period

(communism, history) According to an obsolete theory, a period shortly after the Great Depression in which capitalism would be marked by further crises and then soon collapse.


stab-rag

In conclusion, the bottom on the jacket, and the button-holes, companions thereto, would baffle the criticism of the most hyper-fastidious stab-rag; and the shirt collar, with every other detail—never forgetting the chiaro-scuro—are equal to any of the preceding.

1841 August 21, “Fine Arts”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 1, page 65:

Corporal Target is at the stab-rag—tailor's, sir. Bein' measured for a new overcoat, sir.

1943, Stella Gibbons, Ticky, London: Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 127:

(obsolete, military, British, slang) A regimental tailor.


lodge solemn representation

en-verb

lodge solemn representation (third-person singular simple present lodges solemn representation, present participle lodging solemn representation, simple past and past participle lodged solemn representation)

lodges solemn representation (present singular third-person)
lodging solemn representation (participle present)
lodged solemn representation (participle past)
lodged solemn representation (past)

Calque from Chinese 提出嚴正交涉／提出严正交涉 (tíchū yánzhèng jiāoshè).

zh-l

提出嚴正交涉／提出严正交涉 (tíchū yánzhèng jiāoshè)

(China, officialese) A phrase for expressing diplomatic discontent.


state socialism

en-noun

state socialism (countable and uncountable, plural state socialisms)

state socialisms (plural)
state-socialism (alternative)

(socialism) A type of socialism wherein some or many of the means of production are controlled by the state, the state in turn being operated by (or on behalf of) the workers.


claimancy

He has effective authority to move his billets around within his claimancy as necessary to meet needs.

1975, Navy Supply Corps Newsletter, page 6:

One the most important roles of the claimancy is the management of the financial resources provided to the activities for operations and maintenance.

1992, Naval School, Civil Engineer Corps Officers, Guide to public work management, page 2-15:

Within the NAVSUP claimancy (which is entirely within the Navy's infrastructure) almost two- thirds of our staffing and workload is directly linked to force size.

Since, for example, IT funding issues are not limited to the Pacific Fleet claimancy (CPF) but affect the navy as a whole, not only are CPF activities free to comment, but other claimancies also are free to comment on the issue.

2008, Lawrence R. Jones, Jerry L. McCaffery, Budgeting, Financial Management, and Acquisition Reform in the U.S. Department of Defense, →ISBN, page 179:

(military) A branch of the navy responsible for maintaining infrastructure, usually corresponding roughly to a command grouping.


SOHR

(organisations, politics) Initialism of Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.


firebell

(firefighting) An alarm bell sounded in the event of a fire.


Vietnam syndrome

In reference to the domestic controversy over the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.

(US politics) Public aversion to overseas military actions by the United States.


Dengism

(politics) The politics and economics of the Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.


permanent revolutionist

permanent revolutionist (plural permanent revolutionists)

permanent revolutionary
permanent revolutionary#English

(communism, rare) Synonym of permanent revolutionary.


PPBM

Persatuan Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia#English

(Malaysia, politics) Initialism of Persatuan Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (“Malaysian United Indigenous Party”), a splinter party from UMNO.


depper

en-adjective

depper (comparative more depper, superlative most depper)

more depper (comparative)
most depper (superlative)

Don't be that one guy who shows up to boot camp in his depper clothes.

(US, military, nautical, slang) Of or pertaining to the Delayed Entry Program.


depper

The recruiting officer led the deppers outside to do PT in the hot sun.

(US, military, nautical, slang) A member of the Delayed Entry Program.


fireworker

(military, historical) A person in charge of the operation of a gun.


Makhnovshchina

From Russian махно́вщина (maxnóvščina) or Ukrainian махно́вщина (maxnóvščyna). Both mean "the thing relating to Makhno", and are equivalent to Махно (Maxno) + -ов (-ov) + -ский (-skij) + -ина (-ina).

(anarchism, communism) Synonym of Makhnovism.


cleché

clechée (alternative)
cléché (alternative)
cléchée (alternative)
clechy (alternative)

Argent, a cross clechée sable — Sir Thomas BANASTER, K.G., ob. 2° Ric. II. (as depicted upon his stall-plate at Windsor, elsewhere blazoned, Argent, a cross patty pointed sable).
Or, on a mount between two lesser ones vert a lamb sable, holding with the dexter forefoot a banner ermine charged with a cross clechée gules—GROSE, Surrey (1756).

1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 162:

[…] and of a cross cleché voided and pometté as in the arms of Cawston (Fig. 162).

1904, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopaedia of Armory, London: T.C.; & E.C. Jack, page 86:

Cross OF TOULOUSE (cross clechy, voided and botonny)

(10) — patee : cross clechy, i.e. with the ends of the arms pointed, […]

1994, L. A. J. R. Houwen, The Deidis of Armorie: A Heraldic Treatise and Bestiary, page 213:

(heraldry) Having ends which flare out (like a cross patté) before tapering back to a point (urdé).

[…] our miniatures of c. 1375 or after, namely, the Christ Enthroned of the Fitzwarin Psalter. The background 'prints' formed in the interspaces crosses clechy (i.e. of mascles). This point is interesting if it is considered in relation to the mascles[…]

1955, Ernest William Tristram, English Wall Painting of the Fourteenth Century, page 44:

Cross cléchée (voided Greek cross formed of four sans-serif L's by closing ends. Three roundels (2 + 1) end each arm. Lys in each angle. PIECE-DE-XXX (pellet, on Lyon coins; engraver's différent, on Metz) DENIERS- Individual punches for all elements; dentilated borders.

1976, Eric P. Newman, Studies on Money in Early America, page 54:

(heraldry) Charged with another bearing of the same figure and of the colour of the field so that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; voided.


boltface

(firearms) The front surface of a bolt in a firearm or back of the firing chamber, against which the cartridge rests.


pr.

B.L. cartridges have lubricators choked inside the cartridges of 40-pr. and lower natures.

1879, War Office, Manual of Siege and Garrison Artillery Exercises, page 37:


zoo plane

(US, politics, slang) An airplane used during a political campaign to transport cameramen, technicians, members of lesser press publications, etc., separate from the primary plane that carries the candidate and major reporters.


work the oracle

en-verb

work the oracle (third-person singular simple present works the oracle, present participle working the oracle, simple past and past participle worked the oracle)

works the oracle (present singular third-person)
working the oracle (participle present)
worked the oracle (participle past)
worked the oracle (past)

Holdaway reports that procedural rules are often considered irrelevant by the British police as they go about their daily duties. The occupational culture of the British police condones the use of “verbals” or “working the oracle.”

2006, Thomas Barker, Police Ethics: Crisis in Law Enforcement, page 90:

(UK, law enforcement slang) To fabricate a suspect's verbal statement.


emergency department

en-noun

emergency department (plural emergency departments)

(healthcare) A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.


social murder

Calque of German sozialer Mord, first attested in Friedrich Engels' Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England. Engels attributes the phrase to English workers' newspapers.

Ich werde nun zu beweisen haben, daß die Gesellschaft in England diesen von den englischen Arbeiterzeitungen mit vollem Rechte als solchen bezeichneten sozialen Mord täglich und stündlich begeht; […]

1962 [1845], Friedrich Engels, “Resultate”, in Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England (Marx-Engels Werke), volume 2, page 325; English translation from “Results”, in Florence Kelley, transl., The Condition of the Working Class in England (Marx/Engels Collected Works), volume 4, translation of original in German, 1975, page 394:

(politics) The knowing causing of the inevitable premature death of members of an oppressed class by deliberately and structurally exposing them to potentially lethal conditions.


people's warrior

people's warrior (plural people's warriors)


pusher-thruster

(sumo) A rikishi who uses his weight to push and pummel his opponent, rather than holding the opponent's mawashi and attempting to throw him


SPOD

(US, military) Acronym of seaport of debarkation/disembarkation.


(military) Initialism of command, control, and communications.


parabelt

(military) A belt that can be used as an emergency tourniquet


swayamsevak

From Hindi स्वयंसेवक (svayansevak), from Sanskrit स्वयम् (svayam, “self”) and सेवक (sevaka, “servant”).

(India, politics) A member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an Indian nationalist paramilitary volunteer organization.


Lib Dems

(UK politics, informal) The Liberal Democrats.


neo-Bolshevism

neo-bolshevism (alternative)
neobolshevism (alternative)


Marxist-Leninism

Marxist-Leninism (usually uncountable, plural Marxist-Leninisms)

(communism) Synonym of Marxism-Leninism.


BBG

(military, nautical) Initialism of guided-missile battleship (a battleship equipped with cruise missiles as one of its primary armaments).

guided-missile battleship

(military, nautical) Abbreviation of battleship battle group.


voterland

(politics, colloquial) The realm or sphere of voters; the everyday world of the electorate.


sepurture

Obscure. Early uses are in the phrase in sepurture, suggesting it might have originated as a noun ending in -ure; compare the heraldic use of overture, overt.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sepurture.

(heraldry) Of a bird's wings: raised above the back and opened.


lymphad

(heraldry) A single-masted ship propelled by oars, usually indicating a Scottish title associated with islands.


WHSC

White House Signal Corps
w:White House Signal Corps

(US politics, historical) Initialism of White House Signal Corps.


WHCA

White House Communications Agency
w:White House Communications Agency

(US politics) Initialism of White House Communications Agency.

The W.H.C.A., created in 1914, is an independent group whose members are accredited to cover the president.

2025 February 26, Michael D. Shear, “What Is the White House Press Pool, and Why Is Trump Seizing Control of It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

w:White House Correspondents' Association

(US politics, journalism) Initialism of White House Correspondents' Association.


spontaneism

(politics) The belief that a revolution should arise spontaneously.


right face

right faces (plural)
right-face (alternative)

The sergeant made a right face and stepped off and stood next to the sergeant major.

2013, Joe C. Noriega, ARIZONA RANGERS, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 162:

After taking a sip, he did a right face and stepped over to an unoccupied table.

2017, Wayne Zurl, Murder in Knoxville: A Sam Jenkins Mystery, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 96:

After a few minutes, we executed a right face and churned a new path directly toward the woods.

2013, Jim Ross, Outside the Wire: Riding with the "Triple Deuce" in Vietnam, 1970, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 94:

(He comes to attention, salutes, does a right face, and exits.)

2000, Vincent Caristi, John DiFusco, Tracers: A Play, Dramatists Play Service Inc, →ISBN, page 23:

(especially military) The act of a person turning to the right.


DFLer

(US politics) A member or supporter of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.


utopian socialism

utopian socialism (countable and uncountable, plural utopian socialisms)

utopian socialisms (plural)
Utopian socialism (alternative)

(history, socialism) Socialism that is focussed on planning and building a flawless and egalitarian society, but has little to no concern with methodology, class struggle, and the status quo at large.


Benghazi boiler

Benghazi boiler (plural Benghazi boilers)

(New Zealand, military, slang) A thermette.


little guy

(military slang, dated) A Vietnamese man, particularly in the Vietnam War.


percussion lock

percussion lock (plural percussion locks)

(firearms) A kind of lock for a gun in which a hammer strikes upon a percussion cap on the nipple, igniting the charge.


war of attrition

war of attrition (plural wars of attrition)

A bullet for your war of attrition
And your exploitation of the human condition

2021, Gerald Casale, Josh Freese, Josh Hager, Steve Bartek, “I'm Gonna Pay U Back”, in I'm Gonna Pay U Back, performed by DEVO's Gerald V. Casale:

So far, soldiers on the front lines said they had seen little evidence of escalation beyond this largely slow-moving war of attrition.

2021 December 6, Michael Schwirtz, “On Ukrainian Front, Grinding War and Weary Anticipation of Invasion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The Site Director was expected to initiate DISCIDIUM Protocol should the situation become untenable; so far as remote observation of the remains of Ipperwash Park above can show, this was not done. Transmissions are occasionally intercepted from the Site, and after memetic 'washing' by RAISA have been determined to originate from uncompromised personnel conducting a war of attrition against the above-mentioned entities. It is from their reports that the majority of this information, save for that regarding SCP-001-A, has been derived. As an understanding of each entity may aid in the defeat of SCP-001-A, no action has been taken to remove Site-43 from operational effectiveness.

2023 October 6, HarryBlank, “Executive Dysfunction”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-26:

(military) A prolonged war in which the warring sides try to defeat their opponents by wearing them out.


go to the country

en-verb

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

goes to the country (present singular third-person)
going to the country (participle present)
went to the country (past)
gone to the country (participle past)

According to polls, Labour is on course to make significant gains in Scotland when Rishi Sunak finally goes to the country.

2024 April 29, Editorial, “The Guardian view on Humza Yousaf’s resignation: miscalculation leads to crisis”, in The Guardian, UK, →ISSN:

(politics, dated) To appeal to the feeling of the community by calling a general election


promachos

From Ancient Greek πρόμαχος (prómakhos).

(historical, military) In Ancient Greece and during the Byzantine era, a soldier who fought in the first rank of the phalanx. An obsolete English literal translation of such a promachos is a 'forefighter'.


Trumpite

en-adj

Trumpite (comparative more Trumpite, superlative most Trumpite)

more Trumpite (comparative)
most Trumpite (superlative)


Trumpite

What do an Etonian, a Trumpite and a Corbyn fan have in common? My church.

2017 December 28, Giles Fraser, Guardian:


Bernie bro

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A male political supporter of the US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.