PNTR

“Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said.

2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN:

(trade, diplomacy) Initialism of permanent normal(ized) trade relations.


UNCLAS

(military) Abbreviation of unclassified.


strategic warning

en-noun

strategic warning (plural strategic warnings)

(military) A warning, relatively far in advance, of a potential attack.


SANDF

On 24 February the Executive Mayor of the Overstrand, Annelie Rabie, visited SANDF members deployed in the area of Hermanus and used the opportunity to officially welcome the SA National Defence Force.

2022 March 10, “SANDF deploys to Western Cape to fight poaching”, in defenceWeb:

South African National Defence Force
w:South African National Defence Force

(South Africa, military) Initialism of South African National Defence Force.


AShM

AShM (countable and uncountable, plural AShMs)

anti-ship missile
anti-ship missile#English

(military) Initialism of anti-ship missile.


anti-ship missile

anti-ship missile (plural anti-ship missiles)

anti-ship missiles (plural)
antiship missile (alternative)
ASM (alternative)
AShM (alternative)

(military) A guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats.


counterdrone

(military) Opposing or countering drones.


Babouvistic

While Cabet the Communist turned to social iconoclasm, Cabet the social thinker shied from Marxian class - struggle or Babouvistic violence and sought a new social order through i he enlightened collaboration of all.

1975, Sylvester Anthony Piotrowski, Étienne Cabet and the Voyage en Icarie: A Study in the History of Social Thought:

The latter, Communism . however, were adopted by another school of reformers, of whom the most famous was Blanqui, men who, correctly speaking, had no precise doctrine, but who had a common source of inspiration in Babouvistic[…]

... and surrounded by every conceivable luxury (including even Sealyhams, the most expensive of pets), are industriously planning a dazzling Babouvistic future for us. my dear Wells "has declared that“ Lenin is beloved of all[…]

(politics) Of or pertaining to Babouvism.


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


IT cell

YSRCP IT Cell in-charge Challa Madhusudan Reddy categorically said that his party was no way associated with Political Punch website founder Inturi Ravikiran, who was earlier questioned by police for posting graphic content berating AP Legislative Council in social media.

2017 April 26, “YSRCP IT wing incharge appears before cops”, in The Hans India:

The BJP’s IT cell used these influencers first, but then began ignoring them because they thought the Modi magic was enough. The party is in trouble because just the IT cell, fake accounts and bots do not achieve what needs to be accomplished through social media.

2019 January 29, “Former BJP data analyst on how the party wins elections and influences people”, in The Caravan:

According to him, while the IT cells of both the BJP and Congress engage in coordinated activity on Twitter, the former has a much larger and more complex structure than the latter. However, what is common to both is a set of nodal or seed accounts that act as the source of political content.

2020 January 28, Neerad Pandharipande, “Massive tweet volumes, complex hierarchies, coordinated attacks: Hacker reveals how BJP, Congress IT cells wage war on social media”, in Firstpost:

Journalists who are on Twitter often decide what is newsworthy based on the top few trending hashtags or keywords. Therefore, it became the goal of political IT cells to tweet enough on a particular topic to make the Twitter algorithms rank it as the number 1 trending topic.

2021 November 29, Regina Mihindukulasuriya, “From ‘I had idli’ to political megaphone, how tiny Twitter punches above its weight in India”, in ThePrint:

(India, politics) a department of a political party set up to promote the party and influence political discussion on social media


second city

Kharkiv is Ukraine's second city.

(politics) The second-most important city of a country or region.


Ralph bucks

Named after Ralph Klein, who was premier of Alberta when the payment was issued.

The Tories have basically treated oil and gas revenues as their own private slush fund. When they need votes, they buy them. The $1.3 billion in "Ralph Bucks" dished out in 2005 to Albertans in $400 cheques is only the latest example.

2010, William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care), Knopf Canada, →ISBN, retrieved 2022-03-23, page 158:

The so-called Ralph bucks, named for then-premier Ralph Klein, though much derided by critics as an attempt to buy the electorate with their own money, could also be read as a populist attempt to include the population in the windfall profits the government was then reaping from the sale of oil leases and royalties.

2016, Jon Gordon, Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2022-03-23, page 205:

(Canada, politics) A one-time payment of $400 paid to Albertans in 2006 to commemorate a 2005 provincial budget surplus.


Nazicrat

Nazicrats (plural)
nazicrat (alternative)

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Blend of Nazi + Democrat. Equivalent to Nazi + -crat.

You mean like Clinton and his nazicrat goons?

2001 July 7, Mike Shepherd, “GREAT GUNS & DANCING MASTERS”, in alt.comedy.laurel-hardy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

> What the hell is a nazicrat?
It is a pet term for a democrat. The Nazicrat. Just another hate group. Kill their own children to further their hate agenda.

2004 March 15, Darsh, “Crooked, Lying Republicans Have Apoplexy”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

Oh here we go again, a nazicrat bringing up there hero Bubba Clinton.

2005 April 30, Harry Hype, “Re: GW Bush. most beloved President ever”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

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


surface combatant

surface combatant (plural surface combatants)

(nautical, military) A warship that floats on the surface of the ocean, as opposed to a submarine. Aircraft carriers are also generally excluded.


commiecrat

commiecrats (plural)
Commiecrat (alternative)

Blend of commie + Democrat. Equivalent to commie + -crat.

In any case, whenever I hear a Commiecrat whine about "facts", I just have to laugh.

2001 November 8, The Captain, “Mineta! What a joke! administration puppet!”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

The Demunists are caught between having to appear sane and reasonable and having to appease their Commiecrat core elements, which have taken over the party since the 1970's. The Demunist Commiecrats are melting down, and the reasonable Democrats (Zell Miller of GA is the only one who comes to mind at the moment), are breaking ranks.

2002 September 28, Nicholas Byram, “Hugh Hewitt: Commiecrat Meltdown!”, in alt.politics.usa.republicans (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

LOL! Peer reviewed journal results, that explains global warming, and all this commiecrat asshole has is some really LAME propaganda about carbon dioxide that he is trying to use to shut down the American economy and ruin the greatest capitalist nation on earth!

2003 November 30, Stuart Grey, “SCIENTISTS WARN: "SUDDEN" CLIMATE CHANGE POSSIBLE”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A Democrat, especially one perceived as being a communist.


libturd

Blend of liberal + turd, likely influenced by libtard.

I agree, you were owned, libturd bitch!!!

2011 September 25, Dewey, “OT:libturd "BaSSiStiSt" admits he is owned!!!!”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

What secret information? And what the fuck libturd?

2012 June 19, VegasJerry, “question for Jerry and clavie and other libturd apologists”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

If all of that bothers you so much, you libturd assholes should have come up with a nominee other than Hillary.

2017 March 20, Wayne, “Why it is useless to converse with a libturd”, in alt.politics.usa (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

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


lolbertarian

Yeah, I pegged you as that type years ago. Typical internet 'lolbertarian' clinging to a BOOTSTRAPS ideology that breaks down rather quickly...as your own business failure has indicated.

2010 March 15, The Exiled, V.2, “Satar is gonna get cut”, in alt.gothic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

lol.. You're talking to a Lolbertarian.
They're the only people on planet Earth who make "liberals" look like they might be mature enough to have an age in two digits.

2019 August 26, fffurken, “Hell Takes Back One of its Own”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

Paul is a generic fair-weather lolbertarian which are a dime a dozen; prattling on about government overreach and "tyranny" when black man is prez, and then falls in line and is all achtung RAUS jawohl mien herr hup hup hup! when orange man is prez, like every other trumper out there

2020 April 8, bitrex, “Some Good News”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

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


armorial bearing

armorial bearing (plural armorial bearings)

(heraldry) Heraldry that consists of a design or image depicted on a shield.


Swexit

Blend of Sweden + exit, modeled after Brexit.

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


greatbow

greatbows (plural)
great bow (alternative)
great-bow (alternative)

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He hooked the tip of his own greatbow under the door’s hasp, muttered som thing under his breath and pulled, hard. Nothing happened. Again, and again nothing.

1981, Peter Morwood, The Warlord's Domain, DAW, →ISBN, page 84:

You can turtle with a crossbow but you're wide open after every shot. Greatbows have knockdown but you're superslow.

2021 April 12, the_3rdist, “What is your all time favourite themed runs?”, in reddit.com:

Maybe samurai would give you a head start for a greatbow build.

2022 February 14, ytinifniozob, Zamoku, “Greatbows”, in reddit.com:

(rare, science fiction, video games, weaponry, fantasy) A giant bow; a longbow.


strike team

(military) A group of fighters to be sent on missions.


Duginism

(politics) The political ideology of Russian political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.


hamacratic

en-adj

hamacratic (comparative more hamacratic, superlative most hamacratic)

more hamacratic (comparative)
most hamacratic (superlative)

(politics) Forming a harmonious whole from independent parts, as in a federation or commonwealth.


deputinization

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(neologism, politics) The process of the removal of the influence of Vladimir Putin from politics.

deputinizasiya

the process of the removal of the influence of Vladimir Putin from politics


chinstrapped

Somewhere between Portland and a town called Eugene at the end of August, I am ashamed to say that I cursed at my beloved colonel, which could have resulted in a court martial for me. In my defence, I was absolutely chin-strapped after setting off at 4 a.m. that morning and cycling for ten hours straight in 25 degrees heat.

2016, Chris Graham, Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 147:


whisker biscuit

en-noun

whisker biscuit (plural whisker biscuits)

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The bad news was his whisker biscuit—the part that guided the arrow—as well as his sight and stabilizer had been snapped, shattered, and otherwise removed.

This is most easily seen on your arrow rest if you're using a recurve, but you can also see erosion on a containment rest and/or a whisker biscuit.

2019, Dawson Albert, Archery: The #1 Beginner's Guide for Everything an Archer Needs to Know About Recurve and Compound Bows, unnumbered page:

The whisker biscuit is the most typical rest, but it can slightly reduce the arrow's speed.

2021, Miguel Rocha, HowExpert Guide to Archery, page 6:

(archery) Alternative letter-case form of Whisker Biscuit.


Whisker Biscuit

Whisker Biscuit (plural Whisker Biscuits)

It might seem that a Whisker Biscuit's nylon bristles, which surround the shaft, would affect arrow flight.

2004 August, Scott Bestul, “The No-Nonsense Bow”, in Field & Stream, unnumbered page:

I pulled my quiver off my bow, ran an arrow through my Whisker Biscuit, and leaned back on my leg.

2006, Jimmy Sites, Jason Cruise, Into the High Country, unnumbered page:

I draw, sure that he can hear the sound of the arrow as it touches each fiber of my Whisker Biscuit rest.

2008, Bill Heavey, If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia, page 139:

(archery) A branded arrow rest with synthetic bristles with a hole in the middle to stabilize the arrow shaft while allowing the fletching to pass smoothly.


PBV

PBV (countable and uncountable, plural PBVs)

(military) Initialism of post-boost vehicle.

party block voting
party block voting#English

(politics) Initialism of party block voting.

party block vote
party block vote#English

(politics) Initialism of party block vote.

Initialism of party block voting.
Initialism of party block vote.

preferential block vote
preferential block vote#English

(politics) Initialism of preferential block vote.

Template:init of.
Initialism of preferential block vote.


chespaling

chespaling (usually uncountable, plural chespalings)

(military) A flexible, rollable material made from chestnut wood, used for fencing or to provide traction for the tracks of tanks.


kakampink

(Philippine politics, slang) A supporter of 14th Philippine vice-president Leni Robredo on her 2022 Philippine presidential election campaign.


contraktnik

contraktnik (plural contraktniks or contraktniki)

contraktniks (plural)
contraktniki (plural)

From Russian контра́ктник (kontráktnik) Literally, “contractor, contractee”. From контракт (kontrakt, “contract”)+-ник (-nik, “profession, performer”). Analyzable as contract + -nik.

bor

контра́ктник

The contraktniki are implicated in the worst brutalities. […] On the night of April 7th the contraktniki went into the village. By the next morning over 200 people were dead.

1995, “Chechnya: Still bleeding”, in The Economist, volume 335, number 7918, page 45:

One witness who had been held in a pit last month said: 'It was freezing. At night they would chuck in smoke canisters and let off CS gas. They threw stones down on us. It was the contraktniki – mercenaries – who did it.'

2000 October 15, John Sweeney, “Cries from Putin's torture pit: One year on, John Sweeney returns to Chechnya to speak to survivors of horrific abuse inflicted in a Russian prison camp”, in The Observer, London, page 24:

Underpinning that power was a reign of terror the like of which Chechens had not seen since the days of Stalin. Even the Russian contraktniki, or freelance fighters, were not as feared as Mr Kadyrov's private army of kidnappers, torturers and executioners were.

2004 May 11, “Prisoners of the Caucasus”, in The Guardian:

The 331st was also a showcase for Russia's policy of replacing national service soldiers with contraktniki - professionals under contract. It is understandable why the generals should have given it an important role in the invasion.

2022 April 2, Mark Urban, The heavy losses of an elite Russian regiment in Ukraine (Newsnight), via BBC:

(military) A voluntary professional soldier of Russia under contract (not a conscript soldier)


CSDP

Common Security and Defence Policy
w:Common Security and Defence Policy

(politics) Initialism of Common Security and Defence Policy.


ESDP

Most recently, even staunch, traditional NATOists, such as Poland, seemed to have progressively shifted their interests from NATO to the European Union as a result of participation in ESDP procedures and missions […]

2009, Knud Erik Jørgensen, The European Union and International Organizations, page 115:

(politics, historical) Initialism of European Security and Defence Policy, former name of the Common Security and Defence Policy.


quingenary

/ˈkwɪnd͡ʒəˌnɛɹi/

From Latin quīngēnārius (“containing 500”), from Latin quīngēnī (“500 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīngentī (“five hundreds”). Cognate with quingenarious and quinquagenary.

(military, chiefly historical) Of or related to units of 500 men.


LVW

(automotive, military, nautical) Abbreviation of landing vehicle, wheeled (amphibious truck).


fa jin

(martial arts) The explosive discharge of power, in Chinese martial arts.


Shahbagi

From Bengali শাহবাগী (śahbagī), from Bengali শাহবাগ (śahobag), a locality in Dhaka, Bangladesh that was home to the 2013 Shahbag protests.

(Bangladesh, politics, slang, derogatory) A liberal or a leftist; in Bangladeshi politics, one who favours a secular society

What happens if Shahbagi eats biryani, I can't control my greed when I see Jafar Iqbal Sir's book.

2021 July 11, Emily Anderson, Speed of the Wind, Emily Books House:

...entire villages could serve as witnesses. As a Shahbagi noted,...

2016 January 29, Navine Murshid, “The genocide of 1971 and the politics of justice”, in Ali Riaz, editor, Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh, Routledge, →ISBN, page 56; republished as Sajjadur Rahman, Mohammad, editor, (Please provide a date or year):

(Bangladesh, politics, slang, derogatory) An ardent left-wing netizen, especially an atheist or Islamophobe


BJI

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
w:Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

(Bangladesh, politics) Initialism of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.


JSD

JASAD

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal
w:Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal

(Bangladesh, politics) Initialism of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.


JASAD

JSD


Mujibism

(Bangladesh, politics) The political philosophy and ideology exemplified by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.


Ershadism

(Bangladesh, politics) The political ideology exemplified by Hussain Muhammad Ershad.


campist

(derogatory, politics, socialism, slang) A leftist who supports any country/organization simply for being opposed to the United States or the West, including authoritarian governments who would otherwise not follow leftist beliefs.


septembrizer

septembrizers (plural)
septembriser (alternative)

(politics, uncommon) A person who engages in septembrizing.


Great Society

[W]ith […] your desire, we will build the Great Society. It is a Society where no child will go unfed [or] unschooled. Where no man who wants work will fail to find it. Where no citizen will be barred from any door because of his birthplace or his color or his church. Where peace and security is common among neighbors and […] nations.

1964 March 12, Lyndon B Johnson, Remarks in Athens at Ohio University, The American Presidency Project:

We built the campaign strategy around a progressive program, the program that formed the framework of the Great Society. The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary Utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The 1964 Campaign”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:

[…] The Great Society was given a blank check. It bounced. While some of the poor advanced over the last twenty-five years, most who did so succeeded the old-fashioned way—by their own efforts. Most inner-city poor are worse off today than they were before President Johnson launched the Great Society.

1992, Richard Nixon, “The Renewal of America”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 292:

This required a legislative program, the Great Society, that would complete the New Deal and earn LBJ a place alongside FDR in the pantheon of heroic Democratic reformers.

2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 2, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980:

(historical, US politics) A series of programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson to eliminate poverty in the United States.


boba liberal

A reference to boba tea, a drink popular in Asian American communities.

I am admittedly vocal about my obsession with bubble tea; in fact, the editors of the Grub Street piece had cut several other mentions of it, on the ground that it was boba overkill. I also write for a mainstream, left-leaning American publication, and it’s true that I once wrote a Profile of the “Crazy Rich Asians” star Constance Wu. It hadn’t occurred to me that such proclivities made me a quintessential boba liberal (much less an idiot queen)[…]

2021 January 29, Jiayang Fan, “Chronicles of a Bubble-Tea Addict”, in The New Yorker:

But just as we’ve seen with the co-opting of the word “woke” as a sarcastic conservative slur against progressive ideals, the term “boba liberal” has been subverted, too. Instead of merely critiquing shallow identity politics, the term is now weaponized against progressive Asian Americans deemed insufficiently committed to the Asian cause — and nothing has accelerated that quicker than the panic over attacks on Asian Americans on the street.

2022 February 17, Eddie Kim, “Is the ‘Boba Liberal’ Really a Race Traitor?”, in MEL Magazine:

And Uncle Roger gets to both educate and complain about cultural appropriation without coming off as what Lau referred to as a boba liberal.

2022 April 18, 3:35 from the start, in Keep screwing up egg fried rice. It makes Uncle Roger happy, via NPR:

(US, derogatory, US politics) a liberal-leaning Asian American with politics or attitudes considered too tepid or whitewashed by other Asian Americans, stereotyped as focusing on superficial gestures over more meaningful actions especially in regards to Asian American activism.


land cruiser

From being a vehicle akin to a cruiser (“an armored warship”) on land.

armoured combat vehicle
armoured combat vehicle#English

(archaic, military, 19th century to pre-WWI) An armoured combat vehicle, a tank.

(archaic, military) A superheavy tank, supertank.


land ironclad

From being a vehicle akin to an ironclad (“an armored warship”) on land.


black budget

(finance, government) A government budget that is allocated for classified or other secret operations of a nation.


Ruscism

Borrowed from Russian раши́зм (rašízm) or Ukrainian раши́зм (rašýzm), blend of Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia (chiefly derogatory)”) + фаши́зм (fašízm, “fascism”), the first an unadapted borrowing from English Russia. Compare Russian Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”) or Ukrainian Росі́я (Rosíja, “Russia”). By surface analysis, blend of Russia + fascism.

surf

Rashism (alternative)
ruscism (alternative)
Russism (alternative)
Russianism (alternative)

Pro-Ukrainian commentators also used the word Rashizm. Derived from Rasha (from the English “Russia”), combined with the Russian fashizm, and perhaps best translated as “Ruscism,” this term is . . .

2015, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Memory, Media, and Secularization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis,” in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (→ISSN), v 1, n 1, pp 160–61

Pro-Ukrainian commentators have also used the word ‘Rashism’ (conflation of ‘Russia’ and ‘fascism’) to emphasize the aggressive intentions of Russia.

2016, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis” (New Security Challenges series), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p 107

On the other side, a large segment of the Ukrainian press has been presenting the Putin regime as fascist: commentators have coined the nickname Putler (Putin + Hitler) and the term Rashism, which conflates Russia and fascism.

2020, Marlene Lurelle, “Reductio ad Hitlerum as a New Frame for Political and Geopolitical Conflicts,” in Eric Shiraev, Jennifer Keohane, Martijn Icks, and Sergei A. Samoilenko editors, Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, p 315

[…] science, and science-based ultramodern technologies (AI) invented for progress have transformed into cynical means of conducting the third world war by immoral intellect of the ideologists of Ruscism [4].

2020 April 27, Actual problems of science and practice, International Science Group, →ISBN, page 175:

“We have beat fascism, and we will defeat Ruscism,” said Pavel Kirilenko, governor of the Donetsk region, who arrived with heavily armed guards to lay flowers at the monument.

2022 May 10, Michael Schwirtz, “Invasion upends a shared World War II history with Ukraine”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 130, page A8:

(politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist.


PHC

primary healthcare
primary healthcare#English

(healthcare) Initialism of primary healthcare.


PHC

Philippine Heart Center
w:Philippine Heart Center

(Philippines, healthcare) Initialism of Philippine Heart Center.


ULC

unlimited liability corporation
unlimited liability corporation#English

(Canada, taxation, business, law) Initialism of unlimited liability corporation.


Kremlinism

(politics, historical) The policies and practices characteristic of the former Soviet Union.


Kremlinite

(politics) A follower or loyalist of the Russian government.


russist

en-adjective

russist (comparative more russist, superlative most russist)

more russist (comparative)
most russist (superlative)
rascist (alternative)
rashist (alternative)
ruscist (alternative)
rushist (alternative)
Rascist (alternative)
Rashist (alternative)
Ruscist (alternative)
Rushist (alternative)
Russist (alternative)

From Ukrainian раши́ст (rašýst), itself a blend of Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia”) (derogatory) + фаши́ст (fašýst, “fascist”).

blend

(politics, neologism, derogatory) Of or relating to Ruscism (“Russian fascism”).


russist

russists (plural)
rascist (alternative)
rashist (alternative)
ruscist (alternative)
rushist (alternative)
Rascist (alternative)
Rashist (alternative)
Ruscist (alternative)
Rushist (alternative)
Russist (alternative)

(politics, neologism, derogatory) A follower of the ideology of Ruscism (“Russian fascism”).


century of humiliation

Derived from Chinese 百年國恥 /百年国耻 (bǎinián guóchǐ). Coined in 1915 in opposition to the Twenty-One Demands by the Japanese Empire.

(politics, historical) The period of wars against the Qing dynasty and the succeeding Republic of China by Western countries and the Japanese Empire, lasting from 1839 to 1949.


ORD

(Singapore, military) Abbreviation of operationally ready date, the date when a national serviceman finishes his service.


Nazbol

From Russian нацбол (nacbol), but with z perhaps by association with Nazism.

One day before Putin's visit, Nazbol activists[…]were arrested in Minsk and jailed on a charge of using obscene language in public.

2012 May 31, “Youth group display anti-Putin banner ahead of Russian leader's visit to Belarus”, in BBC (Usenet):

National Bolshevik
National Bolshevik#English

(politics) Clipping of National Bolshevik.


IMA

Indian Military Academy
w:Indian Military Academy

(India, military) Initialism of Indian Military Academy.


superfiring

(military, nautical, of a gun turret on a warship) Mounted higher than one or more other turrets within its firing arc, allowing it to fire over the top of the lower-mounted turret(s).


military parade

en-noun

military parade (plural military parades)

Clarifying the specific sense of parade intended, once public processions became the more common sense of the word.

(military) A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.

զորահանդես

A show of troops, especially for regular inspection — see also parade


Banderization

(politics, uncommon) A process of conversion to the ideas or philosophy of Stepan Bandera.


Democunt

Democunt faggots like you think that you can win arguments by creating a straw man or red herring factoid and then arguing it.

2004 November 9, George, “democunt called me last night”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Still can't get over the tone of voice that Democunt used on me when I stated my preference for McCain.
Boy, old Obama sure did a bippy-lick on some of these young broads.

2008 October 3, th...@anhywhere.usa, “democunt called me last night”, in soc.senior.issues (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

2009 December 27, Kickin' Names Takes It In The Ass, “Idiot DemoCUNT Napolitano On Failed Terror Attempt: "The System Worked" (So, the "system" must be: "burly male passengers subdue and beat the crap out of the terrorist")”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

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


Democrap

We had a Democrap in the White house and he let those 20 taliban Hijackers into the US to plan their 9-11 Attack. You lose again skank maggot.

2007 July 27, cuts success @dc.gov DOW UP 20 % in 12 Months : Another Bush Tax Cut Success, “Republican Candidates Afraid of YouTube Debates”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

> What in the fuck is a "Democrap?"
It's a lot like a Republiscum, only blue.

2008 August 19, Tiger Luck, “Democrap caught in $3.5 Million Scandal : AP Refuses to Identify him as Democrap”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Democraps bend over & drop their pants for Democrap labor Union thugs and they get fucked Again with a snow job ! LOL!

2010 December 31, k00kery@gwk00ks.org UK Spanked With100 yr Record Cold Global Warming, “Democrap Labor Union Thugs Fuck over NYC Democraps! ROFLMAO! LOVIN IT !”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

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


procontrol

en-adj

procontrol (comparative more procontrol, superlative most procontrol)

more procontrol (comparative)
most procontrol (superlative)
pro-control (alternative)

authoritarianism
export control
gun control
gun rights

Conservative procontrol values (including importance of crime prevention and support for extensive police powers) correlate positively with lethal violence. Social trust, in turn, correlates inversely and strongly with homicide... Southern states have, on average, more than double the homicide rate (5.8 per 100,000 population a year) of that in the Northeast...

2014, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä et al., “Cross-Comparative Perspectives on Global Homicide Trends”, in Crime and Justice, volume 43, number 1, page 190:

The US respondents were asked to give their views of the assertions, "There should be a gun in every home," and "Police should use whatever force is necessary to maintain law and order." These may be interpreted as measures of "pro-control" attitudes. For OECD countries, a rough counterpart may be... defined as authoritarian versus democratic values.

2018, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä, "American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective: Explaining Trends and Variation in the Use of Incarceration", Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment, §5

Supportive of greater or stricter control, especially

(politics) Supportive of greater government control over society, authoritarian or supportive of greater authoritarianism.

The pattern of U.S. trade expansion followed by trade restrictions also appears to have characterized U.S.-Soviet economic relations, not only for the past three decades, but plausibly since the 1920s. Unlike earlier fluctuations, however, recent cycles have been occurring more rapidly and lasting a shorter period of time. The pro-trade period of detente existed for approximately five years from 1969 to 1974 before it began to erode. The strongest period of pro-control sentiment extended also for five years, from 1979 to 1984... When... expectations were disappointed, there was a tendency to view the Soviet Union as acting "in bad faith," lending support to conservative, pro-control forces.

1991, Gordon B. Smith, "The Politics of East-West Trade: An Analysis of Cyclical Trends", Laws and Politics of West-East Technology Transfer, p. 62

Gary K. Bertsch and Steven Eliott believe that the procontrol initiatives adopted by Japan do not represent any fundamental change in Japanese export-control policy...

2019', Kurt N. Maksad, "The Toshiba-Kongsberg Technology Diversion: A Case Study in East-West Strategic Trade Control", Soviet Foreign Economic Policy and International Security, p. 149, n. 29

(politics) Synonym of protectionist: supportive of export controls over international trade, especially for political ends or to prevent technology transfer.

protectionist

2013, NRA Institute for Legal Action, "Emily Gets Her Gun!"
Miller links together a mountain of facts to dismantle the pro-control arguments concocted by the president and his allies, and calculatingly fed to the American people by many of her peers in the Fourth Estate.

If procontrol opinion really is as genuine and as strong as survey responses indicate, why is it that procontrol groups cannot mobilize large numbers of voters to call or write to their elected representatives to urge them to vote in a procontrol direction, while the NRA routinely manages to do this?... The available evidence supports the following conclusions: (1) most people have no real opinion or only very weak or unstable opinions on specific narrow gun control proposals; (2) most people have only very general opinions on broad issues like gun control rather than specific, strongly held opinions on narrow issues, and (3) the few who do have strong, stable opinions in the gun control area are mostly anticontrol, because most of them are gun owners.

2017, Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, page 442:

(politics) Synonym of antigun: supportive of greater gun control, typically inclusive of opposition to gun rights.


Refucklican

The bigger problem was not Refucklicans.It was arab oil control.You always have to kiss arab ass because of oil.why do you think Middle East conflict still going on?

2003 June 16, Crazyalec, “The lies that led us into war ...”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-30:

Refucklicans won't be able to disenfranchise enough blacks to cover how much they're going to lose by this time.

2003 July 2, Hello Man, “Toward One-Party Rule”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-30:

Not...its^([sic]) the Refucklicans that are doing that. It goes on on Fux News daily.

2004 May 1, msl...@aol.com, “Re: How far will the GOP go to win? How dirty will they GO?”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-30:

Clinton attacked bin Laden in 1998, and wanted to fight against al-Qaeda then. But the Refucklicans whined about him "wagging the dog" and didn't give him any support in his anti-terrorism efforts.

2007 August 6, Peacenik, “Why did Clinton ignore Bin Laden?”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-30:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory, vulgar) A Republican.


rocket artillery

en-noun

rocket artillery (usually uncountable, plural rocket artilleries)

(military) Artillery that uses rockets as projectiles, instead of shells or shot; artillery composed of rocket launchers instead of guns.

реактивная артиллерия (reaktivnaya artilleriya, literally “Rocket artillery”) (Literally)


trigger law

(politics, law) A law which is not active until a particular event comes to pass, converting the inactive law into an active law on the books.

An unenforceable law which awaits conditions that allow its enforcement to come to pass and then automatically comes active on the books.


windtalker

windtalkers (plural)
Windtalker (alternative)

There are alternative forms of code, like using obscure languages: World War II's Navajo “windtalkers” are a well-known case.

2004, “Codes and Decoding”, in James C. Bradford, editor, International Encyclopedia of Military History, Routledge, →ISBN, page 303:

Even when they forced a captured Navajo soldier, who was not a Windtalker, to translate intercepted messages, he could not make head or tail of the stream of words because of the code within a code.

2022, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater, The Language Game […] , →ISBN:

(historical, military) A Navajo codetalker during World War II.


LAW

(military) Acronym of light anti-tank weapon.


LAWS

LAWS (plural)
LAWSs (plural)
LAWSes (plural)

lethal autonomous weapons system#English

(military) Abbreviation of lethal autonomous weapons system.


padwork

Following this is another four to five rounds of padwork with the Thai trainers before one practises his punches and kicks on the bags.

2016, Lionel Loh Han Loong, The Body and Senses in Martial Culture, page 37:

(martial arts) Training with pads on the hands to reduce the risk of injury.


bagwork

Once the men are done with the sparring or technical component, there is clinch training followed by a few rounds of bagwork.

(martial arts) Training with a punching bag.


chubbing

Unknown. Attested as early as the 1950s.

The representative engaged in chubbing may or may not be in favor of the current bill but is trying to block consideration of the next bill on the Texas House calendar.

2013, Ken Collier, Steven Galatas, Julie Harrelson-Stephens, Lone Star Politics, 3rd Edition, page 129:

(US politics, Texas) The deliberate use of discussion and debate to delay legislative proceedings.


loitering munition

loitering munition (plural loitering munitions)

loitering munitions (plural)
loiter munition (alternative)

Loitering munitions can circle overhead for extended periods of time, searching for potential targets over a wide area and, once they find one, destroy it. Unlike homing munitions, loitering munitions do not require precise intelligence on enemy targets before launch.

2018, Paul Scharre, chapter 3, in Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

She noted that the report stated the Kargu-2 and “other loitering munitions” attacked convoys and retreating fighters. Loitering munitions, which are simpler autonomous weapons that are designed to hover on their own in an area before crashing into a target, have been used in several other conflicts, Ms. Franke said.

2021 June 3, Maria Cramer, quoting Ulrike Franke, “A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(military, weaponry) A munition, often a UAV, that waits passively around the target area and attacks only once a target is located.


lance sergeant

(military) Formerly, a corporal acting as a sergeant. Now used in the Foot Guards and Honourable Artillery Company of the British Army as a rank equivalent to corporal


lance bombardier

lance bombardier (plural lance bombardiers)

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

(military) A non-commissioned officer in an artillery regiment of some Commonwealth armies, equivalent to a lance corporal in the infantry.


Home Minister

Home Ministers (plural)
HM (alternative initialism)

(India, government) The head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India.


hanger and flogger

hanger and flogger (plural hangers and floggers)

hangers and floggers (plural)
a hanger and a flogger (alternative)

I am certainly not a hanger and flogger and I hate the occasions when we have to deprive someone of their liberty, but sometimes that has to be done.

1994 April 25, Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe, “Criminal Justice And Public Order Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), column 487:

Kenneth Clarke yesterday intensified his assault on Iain Duncan Smith when he dismissed his rival for the Tory leadership as a rightwing "hanger and flogger".

2001 August 30, Nicholas Watt, “Clarke dismisses Tory rival as a 'hanger and flogger'”, in The Guardian:

Later, as shadow home secretary, with her devout Catholicism informing her political positions, she [Ann Widdecombe] had opposed gay marriage, opposed the equalization of the age of consent for men, opposed abortion, but hadn't opposed the death penalty – a hanger and a flogger, she wanted that brought back.

2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, Pan Macmillan:

(UK politics, derogatory) A person who is in favor of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment.


Macaulay's children

Sanatani

a devout Hindu who values traditionalist Hinduism

From Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British politician who made English the language used by higher levels of formal education in India. The term refers to his views towards traditional Indian culture and the Hindu religion, which he described as stagnant and unfit for the modern world.

(India, derogatory, slang, politics, ethnic slur) Indian people who reject their native culture in favour of westernization.


Beergate

From beer + -gate; politicians were photographed with beer and takeaway food.

(UK politics, neologism) The political controversy in response to an alleged breach of COVID-19 pandemic legal restrictions at a gathering in a Labour Party office in Durham, England, on 30 April 2021.


November class

(military, historical) The Soviet Union's first class of nuclear-powered attack submarines, in service from 1958 through 1990.


sick parade

He would report for sick parade every morning and more often than not convince the doctor he was ill. In consequence, he was on light duties for the entire twenty-eight days I was there.

2020, Chris Cocks, Fire Force: A Trooper's War in the Rhodesian Light Infantry, page 148:

(military, medicine) A lineup of ill or injured soldiers who report to a medic, and are assessed by a triage system.


Ken and Eddie Show

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

(UK politics, economics, historical, informal) The minutes of the monthly meetings between Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke and Edward George, Baron George during which interest rates were set, published regularly during the 1990s.


dog that caught the car

dog that caught the car (plural dogs that caught the car)

From the instinctual urge of dogs to chase cars, most of which are traveling far and fast enough that they are never within reach.

So I went out, and I was telling the President about what a tough time being Governor was. I felt like the dog that caught the car; I really wasn't equipped to be governor... When I got ready to leave, I realized that I had bored a guy who had to make the decision to drop the bomb, telling him what a tough job being the governor of Arkansas was.

1987, Dale Bumpers, “Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution”, in Senate Hearings before the Committee on Appropriations, 99-1027, Pr. 2, p. 634:

Mr Reynolds, you might be interested, who seems to be one of the six who run the Labor Party in Western Australia, says this about Mr Kobelke: 'As I have said before Mr Kobelke and the government are like a dog that caught the car—they didn't know what to do about it when they caught it.'"

2002 May 15, Don Randall, "Workplace Relations Amendment (Prohibition of Compulsory Union Fees) Bill 2002: Second Reading", Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives (Official Hansard), p. 2235

It captures the face of a dog that's caught the car.

2018 February 27, Dave Holmes, "Sean Hannity's Favorite Piece of Trump-Era Art Is Terrifying", Esquire

Since its use on the very day after the referendum, it has become a cliché to say that Brexiters are like ‘the dog that caught the car’, achieving something they had never expected and then did not know what to do with. That was obvious from the very first hours after the 2016 vote, when Johnson and Gove appeared on TV looking both shocked and scared.

2022 February 25, Chris Grey, "The Dogs that Caught the Car", Brexit & Beyond

In this sense, the GOP are the proverbial dog that caught the car. For decades, they have been working their voters into frothing hysteria over the need to protect the unborn from abortionists and their Democratic protectors. But what this means in practice... is far less appealing. From a public health standpoint, the draft decision leaked on Monday is an abomination. From a political standpoint, it imperils midterm victories that were for all intents and purposes inevitable.

2022 May 10, Alex Shephard, "With Roe, the GOP Is the Dog that Caught the Car", The New Republic

(idiomatic, colloquial, especially politics) A person who has unexpectedly attained an aspirational goal and is now unsure what to do with it.


PFIC

passive foreign investment company
w:passive foreign investment company

(taxation) Acronym of passive foreign investment company.


cannon cocker

A 'Cannon Cocker' is the lowest form of existence that there is in the Army. It is hot, dirty, dangerous, loud and continuous.

2009, Billy Hall, Bulletproof: In Vietnam, page 103:

“I guess we need to take these guys in,” a cannon cocker said. I met Smith's eyes, and he shook his head. Neither of us was much interested in taking the prisoners back to base.

2011, Kris Alexander, Servants of the Light:

I subsequently taught enough artillerymen at Quantico, and the Naval War College to make that statement, and today, even in the war on terror, I would ensure that my chief of staff was a cannon cocker!

2012, Dr. George A. Baker III, The Making of a Marine-Scholar, page 561:

(US, military, slang, sometimes derogatory) A member of the military who fires guns; a soldier involved in gunnery.


Bidenist

(US politics) A supporter of American politician and US president Joe Biden.

(US politics) Of or pertaining to Bidenism.


Shitty Kitty

(US, naval slang, historical, vulgar) USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)


Hot Carl

(US navy, slang) USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)


From the section of the U.S. federal tax code.

After the law was enacted in 2007, AIPAC, which had sponsored congressional trips to Israel since the 1990s, campaigned to create an exception for 501(c)(3) organizations that lobbying groups could use to get around the law. Both 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) groups are tax-exempt nonprofits, but 501(c)(4) groups — including AIPAC — are considered “social welfare” organizations, which are allowed to spend more than 20 percent of their resources on lobbying the government.

2023 November 18, Murtaza Hussein, “Meet the Secret Donors Who Fund AIPAC’s Israel Trips for Congress”, in The Intercept:

(US, taxation, organizations) An organization that complies with section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. federal tax code. A non-profit organization exempt from some federal income taxes, due to being dedicated to charitable, religious, educational, scientific, public safety, promotion of amateur sport at the national or international level, prevention of cruelty to women or children or animals, or literary purposes.


(US, taxation, organizations) An organization that complies with section 501(c)(4) of the U.S. federal tax code. A non-profit organization exempt from some federal income taxes, due to being dedicated social welfare purposes.

(US, politics) A nominally civic oriented service non-profit organization, that spends just over 50% of its revenues on such apparent aims, while spending the remainder on political purposes; due to the effect of the Citizens United judgment.


Hindumisic

en-adj

Hindumisic (comparative more Hindumisic, superlative most Hindumisic)

more Hindumisic (comparative)
most Hindumisic (superlative)

(India, politics) Opposed to Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.


Jai Hind

Borrowed from Hindi जय हिंद (jay hind), from जय (jay, “hail to, victory”) and हिंद (hind, “India”). Coined by Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian freedom activist.

(India, politics) "Victory to India", a patriotic slogan raised to salute or celebrate India.


white replacement theory

White supremacy movement believes in a White replacement theory. As stated by the ADL, “White supremacists today further believe that the White race is in danger of extinction due to a rising ‘flood’ of non-whites, who are controlled and manipulated by Jews, and that imminent action is need[ed] to ‘save’ the White race.

2021, Joel Spring, Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

“As our native birthrate falls, immigration will account for an increasing proportion of our growth,” Tanton warned. This framing touched on issues of cultural assimilation and evokes the specter of “white replacement theory,” the eugenicist fear about the “passing” of the “great race,” as Madison Grant put it in his influential 1916 book.

2021, Kathleen Belew, Ramon A. Gutierrez, editors, A Field Guide to White Supremacy, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 208:

[<span title="On October 27th, in the hours following the Tree of Life shooting, Vice President Mike Pence spoke with Peter Doocy of Fox News and maintained that the Trump administration possessed evidence suggesting “the caravan was organized by leftist organizations” and was “funded by outside groups.”">…

2022, Ben A. Popp, The Truth is Everywhere: Reconceptualizing Far-Right Conspiracy Theories in the Information Age, The University of Chicago:

(politics, racism, social) A conspiracy theory based on white supremacist ideology that there is a plot to diminish the influence of white people through the immigration of visible minorities and demographics.


dropmaster

(military) A person in charge of dropping items (equipment, weapons, or parachutists) out of an aircraft


cross someone's T

en-verb

cross someone's T (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's T, present participle crossing someone's T, simple past and past participle crossed someone's T)

crosses someone's T (present singular third-person)
crossing someone's T (participle present)
crossed someone's T (participle past)
crossed someone's T (past)

From the shape formed by the opposing battle lines, which resembles a capital letter T.

No sooner has the fleet settled onto this course than a small group of Japanese cruisers and actual, real, live, all-singing, all-dancing, all-features-included, protected-by-the-Emperor torpedo boats begin to move to cross the T of the Russian fleet. Worried about a torpedo attack on his lead battleships and determined to sweep this small formation aside, Rozhestvensky orders his main ships into a line abreast, a far-more-potent display of force that allows every forward-pointing gun on his capital ships to bear at the same time.

2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 12:24 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 2022-12-04:

(military, nautical) To sail one's battle line across the front of the enemy battle line, allowing one to bring one's full firepower to bear on the enemy battle line while limiting the firepower that the enemy can use in return.


munitioneer

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


ring knocker

An allusion to the graduation rings they may wear.

(US, military, slang) An officer who graduated from a military academy.


Emboldened by their growing strength, the countries of the G77 coalesced around a proposal to make the rules o the global economy fairer for the world's majority.

2017, Jason Hickel, “Debt and the Economics of Planned Misery”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:

(politics, UN) Abbreviation of Group of 77, a coalition of developing countries.


HMP

(Newfoundland, law enforcement) Initialism of Her/His Majesty's Penitentiary.

(Commonwealth, law enforcement) Abbreviation of Her/His Majesty's Prison The name of several prisons in the British Commonwealth and British Empire.


HMP

en-noun

HMP (countable and uncountable, plural HMPs)

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of Her/His Majesty's Prison: The prefix used in the names of prisons in the United Kingdom.


HMNB

(UK, nautical, military) Initialism of Her (or His) Majesty's Naval Base; prefix used in the names of naval bases of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.


ARNP

advanced registered nurse practitioner#English

(healthcare) Initialism of advanced registered nurse practitioner.


urban Naxal

Coined by Indian filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri in Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam, a 2018 book about his 2014 film Buddha in a Traffic Jam. Referring to the group's alleged ties with communist militants for left-wing beliefs, support for socialism, and hostility to Hindu nationalism.

(Indian politics, derogatory, slang, chiefly Hindutva, politics) a liberal or a leftist.

Indian politics; chiefly Hindutva; Indian politics; chiefly Hindutva


Menzian

en-adj

Menzian (comparative more Menzian, superlative most Menzian)

more Menzian (comparative)
most Menzian (superlative)

It is also his considered opinion that a condition precedent to any legislative action is that those best qualified to pronounce on the merits of a popular demand examine it in all its aspects. That is good Menzian legalese, as pompous as parody permits.

1937 October 9, Smith's Weekly, Sydney, page 12, column 1:

(Australian politics) In the style or manner of former Australian centre-right politician and Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, the founder of the Liberal Party.


toe popper

(military, slang) A small antipersonnel land mine, the M14 mine.


Italygate

(US politics) A QAnon-affiliated conspiracy theory alleging that the 2020 United States presidential election was rigged, with satellites and military technology used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden from the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy.


Cancún Cruz

Referring to Ted Cruz going on vacation to Cancún, Mexico, during the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said the senator shouldn’t have apologized, and the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. complained that people were trying to “cancel Cancún Cruz” — a defense wrapped in a classically Trumpian insulting nickname.

2021 February 19, Lisa Lerer, “How Ted Cruz Became the least sympathetic politician in America”, in New York Times:

You'd think they'd be ashamed of the shenanigans they try / But never Cancun Cruz or Lady G

2021 April 5, “Ted and Lindsey”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics):

Ken dressed up like Cancun Cruz and sang "Margaritaville." When he got to the chorus, everyone joined in and sang, "I tried to say that my kids were to blame, but I know it was my own damn fault."

2021 October 6, Joe Lovato, Blood, Love and Justice, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

We have all read about “Cancun Cruz,” and how he blamed his poor decision to travel to Cancun during Texas’ winter freeze on his daughters.

2022 April 4, “Cruz's actions display a lack of maturity, poor decision-making”, in Austin American-Statesman, page A8:

(US politics, derogatory, neologism) U.S. senator Ted Cruz.


sofar bomb

sofar bombs (plural)
SOFAR bomb (alternative)

(nautical, military) A device (usually an imploding metal sphere or an explosive charge fuzed to explode at depth) which sinks in the ocean and creates a loud, low-frequency sound when it enters the sofar channel; used to determine the location of sunken vessels.


ATACMS

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

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

The Biden administration, which has sent billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, has been deliberating about whether to provide some of their limited inventory of Army Tactical Missile Systems — known as ATACMS. Mr. Zelensky said Ukraine needs more missile capability.

[2023 September 22, Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, “Zelensky’s Visit Reveals Strategy Divide Between Ukraine and U.S.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Army Tactical Missile System
w:Army Tactical Missile System

surface-to-surface missile
surface-to-surface missile

(US military) Acronym of Army Tactical Missile System, a type of surface-to-surface missile.


GMLRS

But the range of the GMLRS is more than twice that of the 155-mm shells fired by howitzers.

Multiple Launch Rocket System
MLRS#English

(US military) Acronym of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System.


HIMARS

Using the HIMARS and GMLRS together can offer an amount of firepower that is similar to an airstrike — all from a mobile platform.

High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
w:High Mobility Artillery Rocket System

multiple rocket launcher
multiple rocket launcher

(military) Acronym of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, a light multiple rocket launcher.


Nordenfelt gun

Named after the Swedish steel producer and banker Thorsten Nordenfelt, who funded its development.

(firearms, historical) A kind of organ gun having a row of up to twelve barrels, and fired by pulling a lever back and forth, with ammunition fed by gravity through a chute for each barrel.


Bluie

(US military, historical) Code name for Greenland during World War II.


povertician

One of the “bold” as well as costly programs on the war on poverty and one which is being extolled from the hustings by professional povertician Sargent Shriver, is the reincarnation of the depression-born C. C. C., the Youth Job Corps.

1964 October 8, Donald I. Rogers, “Poverty War Youth Camps”, in The Gazette, Emporia, Kan., page 4:

“This all leads,” Rep. Hansen says, “to everyone getting the money, except the poor, who get warm words of hope and encouragement from the administration, advice from Sargent Shriver (OEO director), honorable mention in the press, and short shrift from the paid “poverticians’.”

1965 September 21, “Let’s Clean It Up”, in The Idaho Daily Statesman, 102nd year, number 58, Boise, Ida., page four:

Here is an example of a poverty stricken woman who had her hopes roused by this program, only to see the benefits directed toward the “povertician.”

1966 September 21, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89ᵗʰ Congress, Second Session, volume 112, part 17, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 23609:

“Everyone gets the money except the poor,” Congressman Berry has complained. “The poor get warm words of hope and encouragement from the White House, advice from the bureaucrats and honorable mention in the press, but are short-changed by the “Poverticians” who are riding the gravy train.

1966 December 16, Tom Ethridge, “Mississippi Notebook: Hinds County Larger Than Newest United Nations Member, Barbados”, in The Clarion-Ledger, volume CXXIX, number 346, Jackson, Miss., page 14A:

The poverty program did not attempt to increase the purchasing power of the poor, but instead to create a vast new establishment (poverticians) to deal with their problems. These poverticians were to gain a considerable vested interest in perpetuating the illusion of a “War on Poverty.”

The White House wants the War on Poverty, I guess it also wants the Poverticians for they’ll vote again next year.

1967 November 17, “Toledano Covers Variety of Subjects: Speaker Says Missile Buildup on in Cuba”, in The Scranton Tribune, Scranton, Pa., page 9:

The business—which has made Haddad one of the country’s leading poverticians—is booming, so much so in fact that Haddad is in a quandary over whether to buy a company jet or merely a company Turboprop.

1968 November 25, Nora Ephron, “On Haddad, Poor Haddad”, in New York, page 27:

Check out the poverticians and movement hustlers hovering around, cutting up folk for the best position to receive the piddling chumpchange they say they are “robbing” and “fooling” the Man for.

1969 November, S. E. Anderson, Negro Digest, volume XIX, page 6:

Today’s “povertician” is yesterday’s ward heeler.

(politics, derogatory) Someone who is paid to work with the poor, especially one who profits at the expense of the poor; A welfare worker.


Moscow Mitch

Referring to Mitch McConnell's opposition to sanctions voted by the Senate against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2018.

"Moscow Mitch" has acted as a Trojan horse for crony capitalists, allowing them to wield domineering control over our national politics and decision-making. He has been diabolically opposed to fairer political representation and[…]

2016 May 21, Tiffany Twain, Big Picture Perspectives and A Pursuit of Social Activism, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16:

Moscow Mitch won't allow it. The Senate Republican majority leader told us he didn't like that nickname. So in deference, I will not call him that. Even before the House impeachment hearings began, Leningrad Mitch pledged that[…]

2020 May 26, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

The efforts earned McConnell the moniker "Moscow Mitch." In September 2019, Sen. McConnell finally agreed to a bill authorizing $250 million for election security. The bill did not require that states use the funds for secure[…]

2021 February 9, Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

(US politics, derogatory) U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.


fourth-rate

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 50–60 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320–420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen.


fourth-rate

fourth-rates (plural)
fourth rate (alternative)

(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line.


fifth-rate

[A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]

1677, Andrew Yarranton, England's improvement by sea and land, London: R. Everingham, page 96:

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.


fifth-rate

fifth-rates (plural)
fifth rate (alternative)

(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.


sixth-rate

The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.

2023, David Grann, chapter 1, in The Wager, Doubleday:

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.


sixth-rate

sixth-rates (plural)
sixth rate (alternative)

(UK, military, nautical, historical) A sixth-rate warship.


CTT

capital transfer tax
capital transfer tax#English

(taxation, UK, historical) Initialism of capital transfer tax.


gunhouse

(naval) The rotating part of a gun turret seen above deck.


patsoc

(communism, Internet slang) A supporter of socialist patriotism.

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory) A Marxist-Leninist who supports chauvinist positions.


patsoc

(communism, Internet slang) Supporting socialist patriotism.

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory) Supporting Marxism-Leninism but also chauvinist positions


black shoe

Hayward served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36) as a “black shoe” engineer until he entered flight training at Pensacola, Florida, […]

2016, James E. Wise, Jr., Scott Baron, At the Helm of USS America, page 57:

Towers attributed the whole catastrophe to the decision to put the carriers under the command of a black shoe like Kinkaid. As a result of that, he said, the United States was now without a single fully operational aircraft carrier in the whole of the Pacific Ocean.

2022, Craig L. Symonds, Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, page 189:

(US, naval) A person who works on an aircraft carrier but is not involved in flights.


brown shoe

Halsey was also a “brown shoe,” a naval aviator, who was outgoing, bold, and sometimes maybe even a little too daring.

2004, W. Brad Johnson, Gregory P. Harper, Becoming a Leader the Annapolis Way, page 21:


fusion center

(US politics, neologism) An American government institution for centralizing intelligence between law enforcement agencies.


reelectionist

(Philippines, politics) A candidate for reelection.


come in hot

en-verb

come in hot (third-person singular simple present comes in hot, present participle coming in hot, simple past came in hot, past participle come in hot)

comes in hot (present singular third-person)
coming in hot (participle present)
came in hot (past)
come in hot (participle past)

The chopper came in hot, with guns blazing.

(military, idiomatic) To enter the scene of conflict quickly and aggressively.


FDII

(taxation) Acronym of foreign-derived intangible income.


FDAP

An entity which during the taxable year—a specified foreign entity has the direct or indirect authority to appoint a covered officer, a single foreign entity owns at least 10 percent of such entity, one or more specified foreign entities own in the aggregate at least 25 percent of such entity, at least 25 percent of the debt of such entity is held in the aggregate by one or more specified foreign entities, the entity knowingly makes FDAP payments to a specified foreign entity an amount equal to 10 percent of the annual gross receipts of the entity for the previous taxable year, or makes aggregate FDAP payments to one or more specified foreign entities of at least 25 percent of the annual FDAP payments of the entity for such previous tax year.

2025 May 7, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 32:

(taxation) Acronym of fixed, determinable, annual, or periodical, a variety of income in US taxation.


PTEP

(taxation) Acronym of previously taxed earnings and profits, within US taxation, those earnings and profits of a foreign corporation that are attributable to amounts included in the gross income of a US shareholder under Internal Revenue Code sections 951(a) or 1248(a).


decap

decap (third-person singular simple present decaps, present participle decapping, simple past and past participle decapped)

decaps (present singular third-person)
decapping (participle present)
decapped (participle past)
decapped (past)

(military, chiefly nautical) To cause an armor-piercing shell to lose its hardened cap, degrading its ability to penetrate armor.


felquiste

(politics, historical) A member of the Front de Libération du Québec, a militant Quebec separatist group founded in the 1960s.


make one's number

make one's number (third-person singular simple present makes one's number, present participle making one's number, simple past and past participle made one's number)

makes one's number (present singular third-person)
making one's number (participle present)
made one's number (participle past)
made one's number (past)

Dave Shaw had given me good advice. 'Make your number with the purser,' he had said. 'He's a kind of super marine hotel manager who can wave a magic wand and get you almost anything you ask for.'

1972, Stephen Seamus Kerry, Ship's Doctor, page 49:

(naval) To report one's arrival and begin one's duties.


SRA

en-noun

SRA (countable and uncountable, plural SRAs)

(UK politics) Initialism of special responsibility allowance.


MoJ

Ministry of Justice
w:Ministry of Justice

(UK, government) Initialism of Ministry of Justice.


NEH

The Old Church is one of nearly 240 recipients of grants awarded by NEH for humanities projects in support of the preservation of historic collections, humanities documentaries and exhibitions, scholarly books and research, and educational opportunities for teachers, according to the agency’s website.

2021 August 17, Artemis Moshtaghian, “Church made famous by Paul Revere reckons with its ties to slavery”, in CNN:

Donald Trump has decided instead that the NEH’s funds would be better spent on his own dream project: a sprawling sculpture garden with 250 likenesses of people he deems “American heroes.”

2025 April 15, Gal Beckerman, “Looks Like Mussolini, Quacks Like Mussolini”, in The Atlantic:

National Endowment for the Humanities
w:National Endowment for the Humanities

(US politics) Initialism of National Endowment for the Humanities.


Trump country

[Title:] This Is Trump Country

2016 March 5, Thomas Kaplan, “This Is trump Country”, in The New York Times, page A14:

Still, of the state’s 95 counties, Biden won 91, with Sanders only taking the lead in four counties. From this breakdown, it appears that Democratic voters deep in Trump country think that the center-left approach of Biden is the best bet for the 2020 general election contest.

2020 March 4, Katie A. Cahill, Andrea Kent, Rey Junco, “Super Tuesday results show how Latino voters, moderate Democrats and Trump supporters are shaping the election”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-01-04:

Now, Iowa is solidly red Trump country. We'll wave as she [Kamala Harris] flies over us.

2024 July 23, Todd Dorman, “Biden ends a career marked by Iowa punches”, in The Gazette, volume 142, number 196, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, page 5A:

(slang, politics, US) Rural areas in the United States where the majority of voters lean conservative and support the Republican politician Donald Trump.


stand fast

(archery) A warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.


dial-a-yield

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(military) Of a nuclear weapon, having a yield that is variable (i.e. selectable without reconstruction).


harm reduction

Many harm reduction groups and drug policy experts question the long-term efficacy of scheduling xylazine.

2023 April 20, Jan Hoffman, “The Fight Over a Drug That Is Great for Horses but Horrific for Humans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(healthcare) A range of public health policies designed to lessen the negative social or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal.


Republicoon

WOW!!!! That's a great photo of my hero...got one with him and a rope and a
republicoon or jewdough republicoon...:o))))))))))))))

2003 June 18, Polybius, “Bush”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

The bill pushed by anti-labor republicoon Oxley
of Ohio( ask anyone about this a$$hole), makes it legal for an illegal
alien to use any foreign issued id in a banking transaction in the USA.

2004 September 15, Pennsylvania Dutch, “~ BUSH'S GENOCIDE FOR OIL FUELS TALIBAN ~”, in alt.politics.gw-bush (Usenet):

Republicoons hate Americas^([sic]). They want Americans to work until they
are 70,
as to not be a burden , prevent Americans retrieve the *entitlements*
they paid for.

2011 April 15, Lost In Space, “America Haters: "Yeah! America Is Crumbling!!!"”, in austin.general (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, vulgar, derogatory) A Republican.


Republicoon

This sounds like republicoon mumbo jumbo to me. Probably written by one
of Mista Lincoln's mexicoons or cubacoons, because of the reference to
fast track.

2002 October 29, TL, “DEM Communication two days after Wellstone's Death”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

Second, there is the republicoon negro ass reduction tax credit, for all negroes
who get special ass reduction surgery.

2003 May 2, Polybius, “Senate Dems Continue to Obstruct Economic Recovery”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

2011 March 14, Michael Snyder, “Wisconsin -- Asswipes fuked themselve in the a-s trying to fuk Obama, by voting for the Union Killing Republicoon Neo-Coons -- HE,HE,HAW”, in alt.flame.cincinnati (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, vulgar, derogatory) Republican.


neocoon

neocoons (plural)
neo-coon (alternative)

Anyway, I'll be letting you know how things work out. I have a feeling
this is going to make me rich. Gotta get it, you know, before Bush
and the neocoons steal it all.

2006 November 17, jls, “Just Filed Online for Social Security Benefits”, in alt.appalachian (Usenet):

Hahahaha, I was waiting for this... if you righturds don't have anything
else that can
disrupt the opponent's election, get back to the issues that worked before
for the
neocoons. Abortion, gay rights and immigration. It ain't gonna work this
time.

2008 August 17, Titix, “B,TMM's support for infanticide”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Yeah it is ironic how the left now takes the same actions in response
to criticism as the neocoons did.

2009 November 1, trav...@aol.com, “Re: Where was O'bamma actually born?”, in misc.legal (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory, offensive) A neoconservative.


neocoon

Like the rest of your NeoCoon colleagues, your Shamelessness is
showing. And ewe Wonder Why I ridicule your posts? Completely
unbelievable that you would say Shit like this to GlennD. RightWing
Slime have treated half the Sheeple in this country like garbage for the
last 5 years, and finally they're getting it thrown back at them.

2005 June 29, jmt, “OT: Best Democratic ticket.”, in rec.music.makers.percussion (Usenet):

so let's see, at least according to the neocoon propaganda;
Hillary's an^([sic]) psychotic, foul-mouthed, evil, murdering, (b/w)itch, as
corrupt as the day is long.

2007 December 25, Gnome, Alaska, “iDRMRSR's Holiday Realizatian”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

2014 May 17, spamthespammer, “Re: neocoon assfucker michael obama is gone bonkers...”, in us.politics (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory, offensive) Neoconservative.


friendshoring

Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), noted that the governments of Western countries are increasingly adopting industrial policies that promote “friendshoring” of strategic industries.

2023 August 30, “What is “friendshoring”?”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

(business, economics, finance, politics, diplomacy) The process of moving production to diplomatically friendly or allied foreign locations which have lower production costs.


SEAD

(military, aviation) Acronym of suppression of enemy air defense(s).


Jerusalem cross

Jerusalem cross (plural Jerusalem crosses)

(heraldry) a cross variant consisting of a large cross potent surrounded by four smaller Greek crosses, one in each quadrant.


Christian right

(Christianity, politics, US politics) Political factions in the United States and other Western countries who favour conservative values enacted into their countries' society and laws.

Muslim right

ultraconservative Muslim movements, various countries


Carriegate

What are we to make of the tawdry saga of what we must now, with grim inevitability, learn to call “Carriegate”? […] the headline that appeared in the first edition of last Saturday’s Times: “Johnson tried to give Carrie top Foreign Office job during affair”.

2022 June 20, Sean O'Grady, “‘Carriegate’ is just another classic Johnson scandal”, in The Independent:

The SNP spokesman usually prefers to go into fire-and-brimstone mode at the first hint of scandal – holding forth on the moral turpitude of Westminster like a sort of besuited, latter-day John Knox. Carriegate would have pricked his interest under normal circumstances.

2022 June 22, Madeline Grant, “Spluttering Boris Johnson reverts to filibuster mode as PMQs get personal”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 2022-06-22:

The Times simply spiked the story. Downing Street said it wasn’t true so all those other sources were ignored and – poof – the news blinked out of existence.
But in the interim, it had been picked up by the other outlets, who also reported that the story had been spiked. The incident became Carriegate, which felt like the thousandth gate of the year.

2024, Russell Jones, Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days, London: Unbound, page 144:

(UK politics, now rare) A British political scandal of 2022 around allegations that prime minister Boris Johnson, during his time as Foreign Secretary, had recommended Carrie Symonds, then his mistress, as a candidate for a high-paying job as chief of staff in the Foreign Office.


rosette seeker

(military) An infrared homing system that extends a conical scanner with ad additional mirror or prism to create a more complex, rosette-like pattern with more angular coverage.


angle stealer

(military) A transponder designed to take into account the enemy radar's operational frequency and scan timing, and to add an additional signal to that naturally reflected off the target, confusing the radar as to the target's location.


angle stealing

(military) The antiradar technique on which the angle stealer is based.


Arse-end Charlie

Arse-end Charlie (plural Arse-end Charlies)

Tail End Charlie
Tail End Charlie#English

(UK, military, slang) Synonym of Tail End Charlie.


catch a packet

en-verb

catch a packet (third-person singular simple present catches a packet, present participle catching a packet, simple past and past participle caught a packet)

catches a packet (present singular third-person)
catching a packet (participle present)
caught a packet (participle past)
caught a packet (past)

While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here. However, no casualties in cars or men.

1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436:

From then onwards about every minute we caught a packet from somewhere: 'Crash! Rattle! Bump! Thump!' Eventually there was an even worse one than usual which knocked us all off our perches; […]

2016, Peter Hart, Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War:

(military, slang, idiomatic) To be fired upon.


Hillarygate

(US politics) The Hillary Clinton email controversy.


Obergefell

en-proper-noun

Obergefell (countable and uncountable, plural Obergefells)

/ˈoʊbərɡəˌfɛl/

(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Obergefell v. Hodges, a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


lettermark

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Part I documents the rise of lettermarking and explains how lettermarks damage American democracy.

2015 April, James Dawson, “Curbing Lettermarks”, in Yale Journal on Regulation, volume 32, number 1:

(US, politics) The designation of funds from the federal budget for a particular project created in response to a letter from a member of congress to an official in the executive branch who is responsible for authorizing appropriations.


lettermark

en-verb

lettermark (third-person singular simple present lettermarks, present participle lettermarking, simple past and past participle lettermarked)

lettermarks (present singular third-person)
lettermarking (participle present)
lettermarked (participle past)
lettermarked (past)

Appropriations bills sometimes include funds for projects not requested by the executive branch. This allow members of Congress to 'lettermark' these funds by unofficially contacting executive officials directly and requesting that the funds are directed to their state or district.

2022, Sarra Jenkins, Emma Kilheeney McSherry, US Politics Annual Update 2022:

(US, politics) To obtain a lettermark on funds from the federal budget by sending a letter (from a member of Congress) to the appropriate official in the executive branch who is responsible for authorizing appropriations.


splendid first strike

en-noun

splendid first strike (plural splendid first strikes)

(military) An initial attack with nuclear weapons that disables the enemy's nuclear capability and thus prevents retaliation.


Larkinism

From Larkin + -ism, named after James Larkin.

(Ireland, politics, historical) The syndicalist political philosophy of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, which espoused a mix of industrial unionism and socialist republicanism.


Larkinist

From Larkin + -ist, named after James Larkin.

(Ireland, politics, historical) A proponent of Larkinism.


EKV

(military, astronautics) Initialism of exoatmospheric kill vehicle, a missile warhead reentry vehicle intercept antimisssile, whose intercept zone lies beyond the atmosphere.


unenumerated right

unenumerated right (plural unenumerated rights)

(law, politics) A legal right which is not explicitly stated, coded, written in laws or constitutions; which may be inferred to exist from other rights, or inferred from traditions that have been canonized in law court rulings.


UMNO

(Malaysia, politics) Acronym of United Malays National Organisation (“a Malay conservative political party in Malaysia”).


DAP

(politics) Initialism of Democratic Action Party, a Malaysian centre-left political party.


Atari Democrat

Atari Democrats (plural)
ATARI Democrat (alternative)

From Atari, a prominent video game system in the 1970s and early 1980s.

[Paul] Tsongas was, perhaps, the original neoliberal and Atari Democrat. In 1980, he had shocked the audience at an Americans for Democratic Action gathering by urging them to focus on economic growth rather than the redistribution of wealth and by advocating the deregulation of natural gas prices.

2004, John B. Judis, Ruy Teixeira, The Emerging Democratic Majority, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 132:

When Walter Mondale, a traditional New Deal liberal […] lost by a wide margin to Reagan in the presidential election of 1984, the Atari Democrats joined a larger group of frustrated Democratic officials to found the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).

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

information technology
information technology

(US politics, informal, historical) A member of the US Democratic Party who emphasizes the role of high tech, in particular information technology, for economic growth.


ORDLO

Borrowed from Ukrainian ОРДЛО́ (ORDLÓ), acronym of окре́мі райо́ни Доне́цької та Луга́нської областе́й (okrémi rajóny Donécʹkoji ta Luhánsʹkoji oblastéj, “separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions”).

(politics) The territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in Ukraine.

Donbas

also used to refer to both separatist enclaves, especially by pro-Russian sources


countervairy

counter-vairy (alternative)
counter vairy (alternative)

Bufkin. Arms.—Or, a chevron between three close helmets azure. [...] A shield [blank] impaling: Quarterly: 1, Per fess azure [and argent], a pale countercharged between three bucks' heads, two and one, erased [or]; [...] 3, Ermine, a fess counter vairy or and gules; [...] Another shield [blank] impaling: [...] 6, Counter vairy argent and azure, a canton gules.

1924, Thomas Benolt, The Visitations of Kent ..., page 86:

In the border of a miniature, the arms of the first owner, apparently a member of the Van Varssenaere family of Bruges (1, sable three daggers proper in bend; 2, sable three sheaves of wheat or; 3, argent vairy countervairy gules; 4, azure six ears of wheat or, 3, 2, 1).

1961, Seymour de Ricci, William Jerome Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, page 1816:

[…] and finally that of Vaché: “Vairy and countervairy in three tiers of gold and purple, with a silver chief charged by two facing sable sphinxes, placed over the partition."

2014 April 24, Patrick Lepetit, The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(heraldry, of a field or charge, rare) Divided into a countervair pattern of two or more tinctures.


plumetty

(heraldry, of a field or charge, uncommon) Divided into a pattern of two or more tinctures which is similar to vairy but resembles feathers.


anti-Putinism

(politics) Opposition to the political policies of Vladimir Putin.


palar

(heraldry) Pertaining to a pale, a vertical band or line.


en bloc clip

(military) A clip holding several rounds of ammunition for a firearm, which is inserted into the firearm's internal magazine to load the weapon, remains in the weapon while firing, and is removed or ejected when its supply of ammunition is exhausted.


Faux News

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From the similarity in spelling between fox and faux, denouncing alleged misinformation from the television channel Fox News' programmes.

Some of you benighted buffoons actually believe Faux News' claim to be fair and balanced. Some of you clueless clowns actually think Faux News is unbiased, and all other media have a liberal bias.
Well, now Faux News' London Bureau Chief has let the cat out of the bag. Faux News is biased, after all. Who woulda thunk it?

2005 May 31, ramashiva, “OT: NEWSFLASH!!! Faux News is biased”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

If it wasn't for Murdoch infusing money into Faux News, it would have gone off the air a very long time ago.

2006 September 26, mordacp...@hotmail.com, “Faux news reports on the Clinton interview today”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

Most viewers don't know Faux News has fake Liberals. Listen to NPR and you'll hear many of the "liberals" from Faux News giving conservative viewpoints. Some have been on NPR for decades giving conservative views.
Faux News is a far right media, the deception is accomplished by presenting fake liberals giving weak arguments for the moderates and the left. It isn't real.

2009 February 11, Physicist, “Faux News passes off GOP press release as its own reporting”, in alt.x.y (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

(Internet slang, politics, derogatory) Fox News.


(aviation, military, US, historical) The original designation of the Lockheed XF-90, redesignated in 1948.


(aviation, military, historical, US) The original designation of the Curtiss P-60.


counterly

3 He beareth Azure a Bordure counter-componed: Or, and Guiles; which is as much to say, as Compounded of these two Colours counterly placed. Note that Countercompony consisteth euermore of two tracts onely and no more.

1611, John Guillim, John Barkham, A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a More Easie Accesse to the Knowledge Thereof Then Hath Beene Hitherto Published by Any, Through the Benefit of Method, Whereinto it is Now Reduced by the Industry of Joh. Gwillim Pursuiuant of Armes, page 18:

N. 23. Gules, a cherub, having three pair of wings, whereof the uppermost and lowermost are counterly crossed, and the middlemost displayed or, name, Buocafoco.

1829, Hugh Clark, An Introduction to Heraldry ...: The Whole Forming a Complete Manual of Rank and Nobility, page 48:

(heraldry, rare) In a way that is counter to something else, for example in colour (being divided, as a field, bordure, etc, into different colours), or placement (facing different directions, or crossed).


counterquartered

(heraldry) Doubly divided into quarters, so that each quarter (or a specified quarter) is itself quartered.


XQ

Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie
w:Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie

(aviation, military, US, historical) The original designation of the Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie.


antiemperor

antiemperors (plural)
anti-emperor (alternative)

(politics) One who declares himself emperor in opposition to a reigning emperor.


February Revolution

(historical, politics) The first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.


February strike

From February + strike, a calque of Dutch Februaristaking.

(historical, politics) A general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands in 1941, during World War II.


February Uprising

(historical, politics) An antibolshevist rebellion by the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation in 1921.


antileveling

From anti- + leveling. Compare leveller.

(politics) Opposing the elimination of disparities between the haves and the have-nots in society.


billetty

billeté (alternative)
billety (alternative)

From Middle English bylytte, from Old French billeté.


botony

botoné (alternative)
botonée (alternative)
bottoné (alternative)
bottonée (alternative)
bottony (alternative)
botonné (alternative)
botonny (alternative)

From French boutonné; from boutonner (“to bud, button”).

(heraldry) Having a bud-like projection or a kind of trefoil at the end; (in particular, of a cross) having a trefoil of buds at the end of each arm.


AINO

(US politics, derogatory) Acronym of American in name only, an American who holds anti-American views.


Texiter

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Texiter.

(US politics) One who supports Texit (the proposed secession of Texas from the United States).


sand battery

(military, historical) A sand fort equipped with an artillery battery, frequently found in coastal defense, usually having organic infantry attached.


VONC

(UK, politics) Initialism of vote of no-confidence.


green-water navy

green-water navy (plural green-water navies)

(military, nautical) A naval force capable of military operations in coastal waters and in the open seas near its home country, but not capable of independent operations far from its home country.

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


combat stress reaction

combat stress reaction (plural combat stress reactions)

(military, psychiatry) Acute behavioral disorganization as a direct result of the trauma of war.


Pyongyangology

(politics) Kremlinology applied to North Korea.


Barrack Hill

From barrack + hill.
* (Canada): From being a rise and promontory over the Ottawa River that hosted barracks of the military outpost.

(Canada, historical, military) A former military outpost in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.


Parliament Hill

From parliament + hill.
* (Ottawa): From being a rise and promontory over the Ottawa River hosting parliament buildings.
* (Quebec): Calque of French Colline parlementaire From being a rise and promontory over the Saint-Lawrence River hosting parliament buildings.
* (London): From being a gathering place for troops of the Parliamentarians (Roundheads) during the English Civil War. Apocryphally, the location where the Gunpowder Plot was planned, to blowup the Palace of Westminster (Parliament).

(Canada, politics) The Canadian federal government and its houses of parliament


counterermine

(heraldry) Alternative form of counter-ermine.


Hitler's buzzsaw

Hitler's buzzsaw (plural Hitler's buzzsaws)

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(military, World War II, slang) The MG 42 machine gun.


terrorbomb

en-verb

terrorbomb (third-person singular simple present terrorbombs, present participle terrorbombing, simple past and past participle terrorbombed)

terrorbombs (present singular third-person)
terrorbombing (participle present)
terrorbombed (participle past)
terrorbombed (past)
terror-bomb (alternative)
terror bomb (alternative)

(military) To bomb (chiefly civilian areas) with the intention of instilling terror and decreasing morale.


colonel general

en-noun

colonel general (plural colonel generals)

colonel generals (plural)
colonel-general (alternative)

(military) A general officer's rank in some nations' militaries, corresponding to the rank of either a lieutenant general or full general in the United States rank system.

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a general officer's rank in some nations' militaries


Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

en-proper noun

Leopards Eating People's Faces Party or the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

Leopards Eating People's Faces Party (canonical)
Leopards Eating Faces Party (alternative)

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From an October 2015 tweet by Adrian Bott (@cavalorn): "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."

'I didn't want leopards to eat ANYONE'S face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

2018 November 20, James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers), Twitter:

Top officials of Leopards Eating People's Faces party, having presented leopard w/ options including face-eating, are flabbergasted that the leopard would eat their face

2020 January 4, Dana Stevens (@thehighsign), Twitter:

entire front bench of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party tendering their solemn and sincere resignations because they can no longer support a PM so shockingly in favour, as it turns out, of leopards eating people's faces

2022 July 6, THE...Sodomite Hal Duncan!! (@Hal_Duncan), Twitter:

(Internet slang, sarcastic, politics) A notional political party supported by people who believe its cruel, unjust, or extreme policies and rhetoric will only harm other people, and are then shocked or displeased when these policies and rhetoric have adverse consequences to themselves.


Wallpapergate

(UK politics, informal) A 2021 controversy around the refurbishment in 2020 of the flat above 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, amid allegations in the press that an undisclosed loan had been used to help finance it.


Pinchergate

(UK politics, informal) A 2022 controversy around alleged sexual misconduct by politician Chris Pincher, and whether prime minister Boris Johnson was aware of it and failed to take action.


don't call me sir, I work for a living

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(US, military, idiomatic, sometimes humorous) Used by senior enlisted military personnel to indicate that they are not commissioned officers.


Royal Marine

"She had asked at Paddington for a return to Lympstone on the Exmouth branch, where her son was due to pass out as a Royal Marine that afternoon, at the local training camp.
"Presumably, the booking clerk had misheard her and sold her a ticket to Leominster, and other helpful staff had unwittingly helped her on her way.

2022 July 13, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 961, page 71:

(military, British) A member of the Royal Marines.


big society

Coined by political adviser Steve Hilton, to contrast with big government.

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David Cameron today pledged to create communities with “oomph”, as he launched the Tory vision of a “big society” that would involve a dramatic redistribution of power from “the elite in Whitehall to the man and woman on the street”.

2010 July 19, Nicholas Watt, “David Cameron reveals ‘big society’ vision – and denies it is just cost cutting”, in The Guardian:

Blue Labour thinking, here, converges seamlessly with Cameron's “big society”.

2011 May 21, Ed Rooksby, “Don't underestimate toxic Blue Labour”, in The Guardian:

Not only were charities facing “crippling spending cuts”, but the government had also lost its way without a clear narrative to deliver the big society, he said.

2013 March 5, Peter Hetherington, quoting Stephen Bubb, “Is this the end of Cameron's big society?”, in The Guardian:

At first it sounded quite lovely, didn’t it? The notion of a “big society” – back in those heady days when David Cameron and Nick Clegg stood side by side in the Downing Street garden.

2019 January 28, Michael Segalov, “Forget the ‘big society’. Austerity is to blame for this army of volunteers”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) A conservative-liberal policy advocating the strengthening of local government and communities.


pseudo-fascism

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pseudo-Fascism (alternative)
pseudofascism (alternative)

(fascism) Politics that resemble fascism in some respects, but not in others.


rearguard action

en-noun

rearguard action (plural rearguard actions)

(military) An offensive action by a rearguard.


BuWeaps

BUWEAPS (alternative)
Buweaps (alternative)

(US, military) Abbreviation of Bureau of Naval Weaponry of the U.S. Navy


power dynamics

(sociology, politics) Methods used by different groups of people to influence or control each other.


OCTB

(Hong Kong, law enforcement) Initialism of Organised Crime and Triad Bureau.


KLV

KLV (countable and uncountable, plural KLVs)

(military, automotive, countable) Abbreviation of key leader vehicle.


FBTA

The FBTA aims to let people opt out of those echo chambers.

2019 November 5, Adi Robertson, “The Senate’s secret algorithms bill doesn’t actually fight secret algorithms”, in The Verge:

(US politics) Initialism of filter bubble transparency act.


Sheraton Move

From the Sheraton Hotel at Petaling Jaya where the Malaysian politician Azmin Ali was having a meeting, which afterwards led to the formation of the Perikatan Nasional group.

(Malaysia, politics) The fall of the Pakatan Harapan coalition from power and its succession by the Perikatan Nasional coalition.


geopolitical zone

geopolitical zone (plural geopolitical zones)

(Nigeria, government) A type of federally recognised region in Nigeria, consisting of multiple states.


westoid

(Internet slang, politics, derogatory) A supporter of the Western world, especially the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

(Internet slang, politics, derogatory) A supporter of beliefs associated with the Western world, such as neoliberalism, secularism, or NATO's military interventionism.


reach across the aisle

en-verb

reach across the aisle (third-person singular simple present reaches across the aisle, present participle reaching across the aisle, simple past and past participle reached across the aisle)

reaches across the aisle (present singular third-person)
reaching across the aisle (participle present)
reached across the aisle (participle past)
reached across the aisle (past)

(US, politics) To come to a bipartisan agreement; to compromise with the adversary party.


people's war

(military) A Maoist military strategy where the basic concept is to maintain the support of the population and draw the enemy deep into the countryside where the population will bleed them dry through a mix of mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare.