Fordonomics

Blend of Ford + economics, equivalent to Ford + -o- + -nomics.

Nixonomics or Fordonomics, the results are readily predictable because it’s all been done before, the Council declared: / “During the past two decades there have been five cyclical declines in residential homebuilding. […]

1974, International President's Bulletin, page 197:

‘Fordonomics’ Hints Specialized Remedies

1974 August 19, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, Calif., →ISSN, page 34:

On the way to Fordonomics

1974 September 5, The Home News, New Brunswick, N.J.: Home News Publishing Co., page 30, column 1:

What You Were Afraid To Ask About Fordonomics

1974 October 14, Dick West, The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Ind., page 6, columns 1–2:

Fordonomics expected Jan. 14

1974 December 12, Paragould Daily Press, Paragould, Ark., page 12, columns 1–2:

Huddleston, Perkins Fault ‘Fordonomics’

1975 January 26, Sunday Herald-Leader, volume 29, number 4, Lexington, Ky.: The Lexington Herald-Leader Co., page A-1:

Western Airlines Chief Critical of Gerald Ford Economics […] ART KELLY Criticizes Fordonomics

1975 February 13, Idaho State Journal, volume LXII, number 283, Pocatello, Ida.: Idaho State Journal, Inc., section A, page 2:

Take Rep. George Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, a reasonable, responsible conservative Democrat. At a session sponsored by the Democratic caucus to hear a critique of Fordonomics, Mahon had this to say to former Economic Council Chairman Walter W. Heller: / “I find people I talk to in and out of Washington, in and out of Texas, are wondering where this country is headed. How long can we go on with the debt now at $534 billion? It is going on up toward $600 billion and upward to $1 trillion. […]

1975 July 31, United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, “Midyear Review of the Economic Situation and Outlook”, in Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee, The United States Government Publishing Office, [From the Washington Post, July 31, 1975] / The Myth of the Federal Deficit / (By Hobart Rowen), page 255:

▪ In economics, Ford settled on his base premise early on: that inflation was more ruinous to more people than recession and that it could be contained only at the cost of some pain in added unemployment. His rare candor in saying so has won him high marks, even among liberals who object to his policies. He can, moreover, claim with some statistical support that Fordonomics is working—that the slump is bottoming out and that inflation has come down from double to single-digit levels.

Debate: The first dividend has been to muffle Reagan’s running sermon on Fordonomics in general and deficit spending in particular as the root of all economic evil.

1976 April, Newsweek, volume 87, page 266:

> >> How about the U.S. STOPS ALL FOREIGN AID TOMORROW, *INCLUDING* TRADE
> >> SUBSIDIES TO SOCIALIST cANADA!
> >
> > The US subsidizes Canadian trade? It subsidizes farm exports, and imposes
> > unfair tariffs.
> >
> >
> 300,000,000 or 30,000,000 potential customers for trade.
>
> Who's more important?
Excuse my earlier answer. I forgot that you were a fan of Fordonomics.

2003 December 10, Dave Smith, “Re: Take That You French Whores......................”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <3FD7D526.4755A094@sympatico.ca>:

(US politics, uncommon) Economic policies associated with the administration of Gerald Ford, 1974–1977.


all lives matter

Coined in reaction to the slogan black lives matter.

(US, politics, often offensive) A response to "black lives matter" (the phrase, its political and social movement), suggesting that African-American people should not be singled out for special attention.


white lives matter

Coined in analogy to black lives matter.

(US, politics, offensive, white supremacy) A phrase used to protest against "black lives matter" (rally call, political and social movement) mostly by white people, to protect their traditional white prerogatives and privileges.


police lives matter

black lives matter
black lives matter#English

(US, politics, law enforcement) A phrase used to counter "black lives matter", rallying people to defend police officers and their use of lethal force in carrying out their duties.


WLM

white lives matter
white lives matter#English

(US, politics, offensive, white supremacy) Initialism of white lives matter.


black lives matter

Originally used in the form of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media (2013), protesting against the deaths of African Americans at the hands of the police.

police brutality
police brutality#English

(politics, originally US) A rallying call and statement of protest, concerning police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.

黒人の命は大切 (こくじんのいのちは大切たいせつ, kokujin no inochi wa taisetsu) (the most common media translation)


CERB

(Canada, politics, employment, COVID-19) Initialism of Canada emergency response benefit Income supplement for self-employed and employees, who are those directly affected by the COVID-19 shutdown.


Trumplican

Also, the public needs to recognize that not all Trump supporters are the same. While you rail against one policy of his or another, you may not know you are speaking to a closet Trumplican.

2018, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House, unnumbered page:

"Trumplicans" (Trump Republicans) seized power by promising extreme market fundamentalism reliant on fossil fuels, an authoritarianism that would have made Richard Nixon proud, and a toxic rejection of what they referred to as "political correctness," which was really just a dog-whistle invoking their hatred of Democratic values.

2019, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, page 11:

Another Trumplican wrote this about the requirement to wear masks: […]

2020, Ed Raymond, “A trip to Oz”, in Duluth Reader, 28 May - 4 June 2020, page 19:

(US politics, often derogatory) A Republican who supports Donald Trump.


DKM

From German DKM, from German Deutsche Kriegsmarine, from deutsch+Kriegsmarine, from Krieg+Marine.

(military, nautical, World War II, initialism) A ship prefix used for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.

H. M. S.

His Majesty's Ship; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland


GEN

(taxation, US) Initialism of group exemption number.


midcard

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) The part of a wrestling show in the middle of the card (programme or schedule). It is less prestigious than the uppercard and more so than the lowcard


midcarder

(professional wrestling) A wrestler who performs in the midcard


uppercard

(professional wrestling) The part of a wrestling show towards the end of the card (programme or schedule). It is the most prestigious part of the show compared to the midcard and lowcard


lowcard

(professional wrestling) The part of a wrestling show at the beginning of the card (programme or schedule). It is the least prestigious part compared to the uppercard and midcard


uppercarder

(professional wrestling) A wrestler who performs in the uppercard


lowcarder

lowcarders (plural)
low-carder (alternative)

(professional wrestling) A wrestler who performs in the lowcard


fireplan

(military) A plan of attack or siege using an array of firearms


bombline

(military) A line or limit beyond which aircraft may make attacks on the enemy without risking damage to their own troops.


blue lives matter

Coined in analogy to black lives matter; the color blue is frequently used for police uniforms.

police lives matter
police lives matter#English

(US, law enforcement, politics) Synonym of police lives matter.


compulsory heterosexuality

In none of these books, which concern themselves with mothering, sex roles, relationships, and societal prescriptions for women, is compulsory heterosexuality ever examined as an institution powerfully affecting all these; or the idea of "preference" or "innate orientation" even indirectly questioned.

1980 Summer, Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Signs, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 633:

How could I have missed this milestone of compulsory heterosexuality? Who would teach my daughter whatever girls with fathers learned on these dates and dances, like how to wait for doors to be opened or hold a fork like an unmistakable catch?

2019 April 26, Asha French, “A ‘Daddy-Daughter Date,’ Queer Single Mom-Style”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(feminism, LGBTQ) The idea that heterosexuality is often assumed and forced upon individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation by a patriarchal and heteronormative society.


comphet

comp-het (alternative)
comp het (alternative)

Because heterosexuality is, by and large, presented as the only acceptable sexuality to have, comp het assumes that one might choose heterosexuality by default, even if one is not strictly hetero, in order to escape such punishment.

2019 June 3, Anna Pulley, “Ask Anna: Am I really attracted to men, or just responding to heteronormativity?”, in Chicago Tribune:

compulsory heterosexuality
compulsory heterosexuality#English

(feminism, LGBTQ) Abbreviation of compulsory heterosexuality.


police work

The complement will consist of 290 persons, and these cruisers should prove valuable additions to our service, especially in the line of police-work—the peace time duty of most of our ships not assigned for manœuvres.

1899, Carl Schurz, George Brinton McClellan Harvey, George William Curtis, Henry Loomis Nelson, Henry Mills Alden, John Bonner, John Foord, John Kendrick Bangs, Montgomery Schuyler, Norman Hapgood, Richard Harding Davis, Samuel Stillman Conant (editors), Harper's Weekly, page 1090:

Many who are unfamiliar with real police work little realize the extent to which police science has developed.

1927, National Probation Association (U.S.), Annual Report and Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Volume 21, page 243:

All the ordinary developments in telecommunications can be applied to police work.

1951, Anthony K. Martienssen, Crime and the Police, page 96:

White officers were more likely to select skilled or other protective service positions (such as fireman) as a preferred employment at the time they entered police work.

1967, Albert J. Reiss, Donald J. Black, Studies in Crime and Law Enforcement in Major Metropolitan Areas: Patterns of Behavior in Police and Citizen Transactions, page 16:

Many puzzling aspects of police work fall into place when one ceases to look at it as primarily concerned with law enforcement and crime control, and only incidentally and and often incongruously concerned with an infinite variety of other matters.

1980, Susan Ehrlich Martin, Breaking and Entering, Policewomen on Patrol, page 81:

As a result, there exists little or no transparency in police work at the station house level.

1999, James Vadackumchery, Indian Police and Equal Justice Under Law, page 160:

That's not a bad motto for police work overall, he thought. A vain and arbitrary search for a needle in a haystack, that's exactly what it always seemed to be like.

2012, Håkan Nesser, Münster's Case, An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery:

(law enforcement) Work performed by police; the investigation of criminal activities.


new political thinking

(politics, historical) The doctrine put forth by Mikhail Gorbachev as part of his reforms of the Soviet Union. Its major elements were international collaboration, priority of universal human interests over the interests of any class, and mutual security based on political rather than military instruments.


requestman

After the ME had made a very convincing case for going on leave Sohail asked his divisional Chief ERA, who was standing behind and to the right of the requestman, “Well, Chief. What do you say?”

2001, Mian Zahir Shah, Bubbles of Water, Or, Anecdotes of the Pakistan Navy, page 224:

If this was considered inadequate, the case went before the captain, who heard 'requestmen and defaulters' at a fixed time. Requestmen might ask for promotion, for special leave or some other privilege.

2017, Brian Lavery, Churchill's Navy: The Ships, People and Organisation, 1939-1945:

(naval) One who submits a formal request.


rezidentura

rezidenturas (plural)
residentura (alternative)

Borrowed from Russian резиденту́ра (rezidentúra).

bor+

резиденту́ра

(espionage) A base of Russian espionage operations within a foreign country.


Winter of Discontent

An allusion to the opening line of William Shakespeare's play Richard III ("Now is the winter of our discontent").

Nor is the government facing a strike by tanker drivers, as was the case in early 1979 during the winter of discontent.

2021 September 23, Larry Elliott, “Petrol disruption will fuel fears of new winter of discontent”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics, historical) A period during 1978–79 in the United Kingdom, when the Labour Party's efforts to control inflation led to widespread strikes by public-sector trade unions demanding larger pay rises.


Commandant

(South Africa, military, historical) Title for the officer in charge of a commando or district.


wire gun

Guns were in rapid transit from Windsor, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Woolwich - even from the north; among others, long wire guns of ninety-five tons from Woolwich.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 126:

(weaponry) A former type of canon the construction of which included an internal layer of wire windings.


Dimocrat

I've no doubt, Mr. Chairman, but what Governor Marcy is a good sound sort of Dimocrat, and has done good service in the party[…]

1858, “My Thirty Years out of the Senate”, in Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, volume 6, page 153:

Bryan knows what he wants, and he is the greatest leader the Dimocrats ever had.

1898, Ernest Jarrold, “Mickey Finn's Financial School”, in Money, page 123:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(US politics, obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of Democrat.

(US politics, derogatory) Synonym of dumbocrat.


vote-a-rama

vote-a-ramas (plural)
votarama (alternative)
vote-arama (alternative)

(US politics) A session consisting of a long succession of votes held with minimal debate in the United States Senate.


Árpád stripe

The origin of the stripes is associated with the House of Árpád, the founding dynasty of Hungary.

(heraldry, chiefly in the plural) Any of the stripes (barry of eight gules and argent) forming a particular heraldic and vexillologic configuration used since the early 13th century mainly in Hungarian heraldry.


Bradley effect

Named after Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American who lost the 1982 California governor's race despite being ahead in voter polls going into the elections.

(US, politics) A theory concerning observed discrepancies between opinion polls and election outcomes, according to which some white voters who intend to vote for a white candidate may tell pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a non-white candidate, for fear of being accused of racism.


Wilder effect

Named in reference to the 1989 race for Governor of Virginia between Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, an African-American, and Republican Marshall Coleman, who was white.

(US, politics) Synonym of Bradley effect (“theory about white voters and polling”).


OPSS

w:Office for Product Safety and Standards

(UK, government) Initialism of Office for Product Safety and Standards.


barrack-room lawyer

en-noun

barrack-room lawyer (plural barrack-room lawyers)

barrack-room lawyers (plural)
barracks room lawyer (alternative)

"Dot" Williams: If you were any kind of senior officer, you wouldn't have sent such an inexperienced young policeman out on such a dangerous job.
 Senior Sergeant Grossmith: Hooked yourself a regular barracks room lawyer, I see.

2012 May 4, Shelley Birse, “Blood and Circuses” (34:38 from the start), in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, season 1, episode 11:


impeachy

en-adj

impeachy (comparative impeachier, superlative impeachiest)

impeachier (comparative)
impeachiest (superlative)

Blend of impeach + peachy, equivalent to impeach + -y.

(politics, humorous) Relating to impeachment.


Jordan rule

From the defendant, Barrett Richard Jordan, in the Canadian criminal court case, known as R v Jordan, whose resolution, the ruling decision, that established the rule.

(Canada, crime, law, politics, constitution, human rights) A rule regarding the length of a criminal court case, usually limited to eighteen or thirty months from filing charges to trial.

crime; constitution; human rights; crime; constitution; human rights


fleet admiral

fleet admirals (plural)
FADM (alternative)

The last commissioned fleet admiral was William Halsey in 1945. The last to hold the rank was Chester Nimitz, who died 20 February 1966.

(military, historical) The highest rank in the United States Navy, NATO grade OF-10, used only during World War II.

laivastoamiraali

top rank in the US Navy — see also admiral, admiral of the fleet


marshal of the RAF

en-noun

marshal of the RAF (plural marshals of the RAF)

(military) The highest rank in the Royal Air Force, NATO grade OF-10, currently out of use.


bare navy

"Three weeks we had been at sea on bare Navy, when we dropped anchor off Porthaven," said Long Jim. "Bare Navy, you understand, is regulation rations and nothing else, the canteen having run dry; […]

1914, Leslie Cope Cornford, Echoes from the Fleet, page 62:

A tragic memory of Edwardian times, when butter or even margarine was a luxury in the Navy. Living on bare Navy symbolized having to exist on the coarse fare supplied by the Service.

1946, Edwin Radford, Unusual Words and how They Came About, page 15:

Far too often, indeed, it was a case of 'bare Navy', the maritime equivalent to the soldier's 'hard-tack'; […]

1959, Reginald Hargreaves, The Narrow Seas, page 296:

(UK, naval slang) The situation where available food is limited to basic service rations.


ERW

(military) Initialism of enhanced-radiation weapon (“neutron bomb”).

(military) Acronym of explosive remnant of war.


draadsitter

From Afrikaans draadsitter, from draad (“wire, fence”) + sitter (“sitter”), probably a calque of English fence sitter.

compound

Silas Nkanunu - vice President under Luyt, last week was the only time he stood up to Luyt and that was when he was sure of Luyt's demise, in my opinion a bit of a 'draadsitter'

1998 May 13, news.iop.co.za, “SARFU”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet):

It is now very un-PC to attribute this comment to Humpty-Dumpty, who, as we all know, was male, white and middle-aged. And the only proof that he wasn't an Afrikaans pale male is the fact that he was a wall-sitter instead of a draadsitter.

2000 December 28, Ron McGregor, “Re: Who said what?”, in soc.culture.zimbabwe (Usenet):

u better decide who you´re going to join, the peckies or the boers, the englishmen will never amount to anything. draadsitter.

2004 February 18, Max, “Re: They forgot a few things...”, in soc.culture.south-africa.afrikaans (Usenet):

(South Africa, chiefly politics) A fence sitter.


mud slogger

(US, military, slang) An infantry soldier.


death flight

(politics, dated) A form of extrajudicial killing done by military, in which victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters into oceans, large rivers or mountains.


antimasker

antimaskers (plural)
anti-masker (alternative)

From anti- + mask + -er. Likely influenced by anti-vaxxer.

On one side of the argument was a woman named Claire Newbourne, an anti-masker, a member of a group opposed to the government regulations on Marburg.

2017, Brian Falkner, Stubborn Seed of Hope:

Every time a citizen disobeys mask rules by not wearing one, or wearing it incorrectly, they endanger essential workers who have already risked their lives to service them in restaurant, store, and many other public settings. In an odd way, anti-maskers see this as being patriotic.

2020 September 22, Hope Moses, “Protecting essential workers must be a priority”, in The Marquette Tribune, volume 105, number 5, page 11:

Beightol, who is the administrator for several Facebook pages where public schools teachers can vent, said educators fall into three categories: vocal pro-maskers, vocal anti-maskers and pro-maskers who stay out of the line of fire.

2021 August 8, Francisco Alvarado, “‘I don’t see how it can be safe’: Florida schools on frontlines of state’s mask war”, in The Guardian:

(healthcare, politics, neologism) A person who is opposed to the practice or mandate of wearing masks.


Sandersian

(US politics) Of or pertaining to Bernie Sanders (born 1941), American politician and senator.


rearsight

(firearms) A sight at the rear of a weapon.


morning prayers

When Kennedy was shown the brief at 'morning prayers' he ran his eye down it, tapping the points with his celebrated pencil […]

1998, Society for Army Historical Research (London, England), Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (page 48)

Morning prayers was the traditional 0800 hours briefing of the CDS, the deputy minister, the vice-chief, deputy chief, and other senior generals as to the current military and other events around the world and in Canada.

2004, Richard Rohmer, Generally Speaking: The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer, page 410:

He expected the day's “Morning Prayers,” as these sessions were known at NDHQ, to be routine: a few words from the intelligence staff, brief reports on the status of deployed units and ships, summaries of the last day's activities from deployed units overseas, comments on major exercises, and the status of the one active search-and-rescue operation […]

(military, slang) A military briefing session held in the morning.


mother bomb

(military) A munition that scatters bomblets across a wide area.


slum gun

slum guns (plural)
slum-gun (alternative)


ultrareactionary

en-adj

ultrareactionary (comparative more ultrareactionary, superlative most ultrareactionary)

more ultrareactionary (comparative)
most ultrareactionary (superlative)
ultra-reactionary (alternative)

Although he was not a popular man, the Pan-Germans and ultrareactionary elements within the Nationalist Party looked to Hugenberg for leadership because he was an ideologue, a man dedicated to the principles of nationalism, agricultural self-sufficiency, and free enterprise industry.

1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 5, in Who Financed Hitler, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 217:


ultrareactionary

ultrareactionaries (plural)
ultra-reactionary (alternative)

(politics) Somebody who is extremely reactionary.


air commode

The Air Commode (as we christened him) wanted someone to go to Achill with him[…]

2000, John Townend, Broad Oceans and Narrow Seas, page 132:


AC Plonk

He had recently been on leave, wearing the uniform of an AC Plonk (newly joined airman) […]

2002, V. G. Renouf, Forfeit to War, page 207:

(military, slang, historical) aircraftman second class in the RAF


SLED

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.


Trumpski

From Trump + -ski (humorous suffix added to invoke Russianness), referring to Trump's alleged interactions involving Russia.

af

The de-facto neutering of NATO and division between allies has made Putin very happy. Trumpski took the 4k troops out of Syria several times. Would have given Putin a huge victory. Each time Deep State prevented that.

2019 May 9, Pelle Svanslös, “Re: (OT) Is Putin satisfied with Trump?”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):

(US politics, informal, humorous, derogatory) Donald Trump (born 1946), the 45th and 47th president of the United States.


Bidenesque

en-adj

Bidenesque (comparative more Bidenesque, superlative most Bidenesque)

more Bidenesque (comparative)
most Bidenesque (superlative)

In a conservative law journal, Thomas explicitly acknowledged Biden's argument in the Bork fight and concluded in almost Bidenesque language, "These rights are inalienable ones given to man by his Creator, and did not simply come from a piece of paper."

1992, Mark Gitenstein, Matters of Principle: An Insider's Account of America's Rejection of Robert Bork's Nomination to the Supreme Court:

I got to speak for the first time about being on the “right side of history,” a refrain we'd continue to use until the campaign's end, and let the electric crowd know I'd learned much from Biden over the years—“some would say a little too much,” I joked, donning a pair of Bidenesque aviator sunglasses.

2019, Doug Jones, Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights, New York, NY: All Points Books, →ISBN, page 332:

(US politics) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician, the 47th vice president and 46th president of the United States.


Bidenism

en-noun

Bidenism (countable and uncountable, plural Bidenisms)

Bidenism
Joe Biden 1988 presidential campaign

From Biden + -ism. The plagiarism sense is a reference to the plagiarism scandal in September 1987 that ended Biden's first presidential campaign.

(US politics, uncountable) The ideology and policies of Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician and the 46th president of the United States.

When talking about policies, he often said the president “gets it,” a condescending Bidenism for “agrees with me.”

2013, Michael Grunwald, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 256:

Invoking one of the vice president's Bidenisms, "Don't die on a small cross," I proposed that we instead pursue a "Big Bang."

2019, Susan Rice, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 409:

BIDENISMS If you have to ask, it's too late. […]

2020, Jill Biden, Joey: The Story of Joe Biden, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 1991:

(US politics) A quip, phrase or aphorism commonly said by Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician and the 46th president of the United States.

This is an election year, so forgive me if I steal a line from a more innocent time to ask also for help from the rest of you (not to be accused of a Bidenism, it's from JFK's inaugural address) […]

Summer 1988, Cristine Russell, Newsletter of the National Association of Science Writers, p. 14

That was Mr. Seidman's line. I don't want to do a Bidenism here.

January 1989, Stanford Parris, Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, page 94

(We have not used quotation marks in this paragraph because that from which it is basically copied is in an unpublished decision of Division 7; we give credit only to avoid any claim of "Bidenism.")

1991, attorneys representing the City of Long Beach, California, brief submitted to the California Court of Appeal (2nd District), page 22

(US politics, dated, colloquial) An instance of plagiarism, or the act of plagiarism.


Bidenite

And Iowa's Democratic caucus-goers might not easily forgive his campaign for zapping Biden while Biden was leading the anti-Bork fight. Still, at a showdown with bitter Bidenites in Sioux City late Friday, Dukakis seemed to sway the crowd with his contrition.

The Bidenites say they will be more assertive with China than was the case during the Obama administration, especially on trade issues where they will seek to emulate Mr Trump’s attempts to negotiate a more equitable arrangement.

2020 November 7, Con Coughlin, “The West's enemies will breathe a sigh of relief that Trump's leaving the White House”, in The Telegraph:

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


Sicilianism

Sicilianism (countable and uncountable, plural Sicilianisms)

2009 [Pearson Education Ltd], Martin Clark, The Italian Risorgimento, 2nd Edition, 2013, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 23,
‘Sicilianism’ was conservative and aristocratic, but it was a real separatist threat to the weak and remote Bourbon government in Naples.

The exception was western Sicily where the ‘Sicilianism’, the desire for a Sicilian statehood, more or less independent, had never subsided.

2015, Marcello Caroti, Garibaldi the first fascist, Youcanprint, page 69:

(politics) Sicilian nationalism; a political movement within Sicily, and to some extent in the Sicilian diaspora, which seeks greater autonomy or even full independence for Sicily from Italy and promotes Sicilian identity in terms of culture, history and language; also used historically.


anprim

en-adj

anprim (comparative more anprim, superlative most anprim)

more anprim (comparative)
most anprim (superlative)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang) Clipping of anarcho-primitivist.


anprim

en-noun

anprim (countable and uncountable, plural anprims)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang, countable) Clipping of anarcho-primitivist.

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet slang, uncountable) Clipping of anarcho-primitivism.


USFK

United States Forces Korea
w:United States Forces Korea

(US, military) Initialism of United States Forces Korea.


USINDOPACOM

United States Indo-Pacific Command
w:United States Indo-Pacific Command

(US, military) Abbreviation of United States Indo-Pacific Command.


USFJ

(US, military) Initialism of United States Forces, Japan.


USFI

(US, military) Initialism of United States Forces - Iraq.


Trumpophilia

For a macho candidate whose presidential pitch to female voters often amounts to “I love women”, Trumpophilia has set in with a shocking number of conservative women across this crucial bellwether, as his prospects for claiming the inaugural prize of the Republican nomination fight have climbed ever upward.

2016 January 22, Lucia Graves, “'We love you!' Conservative women turn blind eye to Donald Trump's slurs”, in The Guardian:

(US politics) The love or admiration of Donald Trump (born 1946), the 45th and 47th president of the United States.


Trumpophobe

The White House's recent decision to dismantle President Obama's clean-air regulations offers fresh testament to the malevolence of the Trump Administration’s agenda, […] But, even among ardent Trumpophobes, fear and foreboding have been supplemented by wonderment at the White House’s string of gaffes.

2017 March 31, John Cassidy, “The Keystone Kops in the White House”, in The New Yorker:

(US politics) A person who dislikes or fears Donald Trump (born 1946), current president of the United States.


Trumpolini

Blend of Trump + Mussolini. Referring to Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), Italian politician and the founder of fascism.

“[…] I don't know if you know about Mike Judge's movie Idiocracy, but Idiocracy is the movie Devo should've made—and I think we would've made it better. […] And now with the world the way it is, and this ridiculous unqualified Trumpolini guy, who is anathema to democracy, what we have is beyond Idiocracy.”

2018, Garin Pirnia, Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll, Bloomington, IN: Red Lightning Books, →ISBN, page unknown:

(US politics, informal, derogatory) Donald Trump (born 1946), the 45th and 47th president of the United States, regarded as a fascist.


sir sandwich

"Yes, sir, I am wearing glasses, sir!" “Don't give me a sir sandwich! Since you are wearing glasses, you are an NFOC, not an AOC.

I replied that he was, with a "sir sandwich" (wedging my response between "sir's").

2002, Nancy Mace, Mary Jane Ross, In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 176:

“Sir, yes, sir.” “Are you at the Naval Academy?" “Sir, no, sir.” “Then stop making sir sandwiches, candidate. lt's 'yes, sir' or 'no, sir.'"

2009, Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education, Penguin, →ISBN:

Speaking of that, you will always address us with a 'sir sandwich.' A sir sandwich or a ma'am sandwich ... is you putting a sir or ma'am at the beginning of your sentence and at the end of your sentence.

2013, Martin L. Lockett, PALPABLE IRONY: LOSING MY FREEDOM TO FIND MY PURPOSE, Author House, →ISBN, page 123:

You will only say 'sir' at the beginning of the sentence. This is not the Marine Corps, this is the Army, we do not make sir sandwiches.

2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, HMH, →ISBN, page 152:

(military, slang) The practice of beginning and ending a sentence with the address of sir.


Singapore-on-Thames

An allusion to various English towns called (name)-on-Thames, and the economic success of Singapore after its separation from Malaysia. London, the capital of the United Kingdom, is situated on the River Thames.

Singapore-on-the-Thames (alternative)
Singapore-upon-Thames (alternative)

The idea that London might have a post-Brexit future as a kind of deregulated “Singapore-on-Thames” is one of the more curious notions to have emerged in the three and a half years since the UK’s citizens voted narrowly to leave the EU in the fateful June 2016 referendum.

2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics, economics) A proposed model for the United Kingdom after Brexit, involving laissez-faire free trade unencumbered by regulation.

en:River Thames
en:Singapore
en:Singapore-on-Thames


Obamaite

Obamaites (plural)
Obamite (alternative)

(US politics) A supporter of US President Barack Obama, especially a member of his team.


have a visual on

en-verb

have a visual on (third-person singular simple present has a visual on, present participle having a visual on, simple past and past participle had a visual on)

has a visual on (present singular third-person)
having a visual on (participle present)
had a visual on (participle past)
had a visual on (past)

“We have a visual on you,” the pilot of Gopher Alpha stated, ...

2012, Robert G. Davis, Ten Short Mysteries, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 102:

“Hey, partner, where the hell's your twenty? I should have a visual on you by now and I' m overdue to begin my rounds.”

2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 157:

“This is Alpha Sky Four. I have a visual on the suspect running east on Hudson Avenue.

2012, Sherard H. Adams, The Prince of Pentium: A Life of a Hustler and a Computer Hacker, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 25:

(transitive, law enforcement and military) see


Acela primary

Many of the states in this primary are served by the Acela Express.

As expected, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did very well in the April 26 Acela primary. Trump won all five states outright, his lowest percentage occurring in Maryland at 54% and his best showing in Rhode Island with nearly 64%.

2019, JD Foster, 2016: the Campaign Chronicles, 2nd edition, Xlibris, →ISBN:

A week later at the end of April, Clinton cleaned house in the "Acela Primary" that covered Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, while Sanders only won the smallest state, Rhode Island.

2019, Grant Stern, edited by Scott Dworkin, Bernie Sanders: A Voter's Guide (Meet the Candidates), Skyhorse, →ISBN:

(US politics) A day, often in April, in which a large number of states in the Northeast hold their primary elections for the process of nominating presidential candidates.


AFS

(military, aviation) Initialism of air force station.


andartes

(military) The Greek resistance, and its members, during World War II


Nampol

NamPol (alternative)
NAMPOL (alternative)

(Namibia, law enforcement) The Namibian Police Force.


Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

(politics, communism) A communist ideological stream which seeks to synthesize Marxism-Leninism and Maoism and which proponents believe is the highest stage of Marxism. It was systematized by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) and developed by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and its adherent parties.


Woketopia

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Woketopia.

(US, politics, derogatory) A woke utopia; a world or state of affairs based around social justice demands.


Orbánism

Given the limited opportunities for democratic renewal within the Hungarian state after a half-decade of Orbánism and its destruction of independent institutions, Hungarians who want to restore democratic self-governance may need the help of others.

2016, Bálint Magyar, Kim Lane Scheppele (foreword), “Foreword”, in Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary, Budapest: Central European University Press, →ISBN, page xxiii:

But in 2017 it certainly looks as if a crisis (or interconnected series of crises) of fairly large proportions has begun or is at least on the horizon: Brexit in England; Trumpism in the US; Putinism in Russia and Orbánism in Hungary; Erdoğanism in Turkey; a real crisis of identity and purpose with respect to the whole EU project; […]

2018, Ronald Beiner, “How to Do Theory in Politically Treacherous Times”, in Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 129:

(politics) The political philosophy associated with Viktor Orbán (born 1963), Hungarian politician and prime minister.


main guard

(military) A body of troops comprising the chief guard units, especially a unit of cavalry on the wing of a camp towards the enemy, or a group of soldiers in a fortress responsible for dealing with disturbers of the peace.

[A]fter an obstinate engagement, in which divers wounds were given and received, every soul of them was taken, and conveyed to the main-guard, where the commanding officer […] set them all at liberty […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(fortification) The keep of a castle; a guardhouse or building in a fortress where such a body of troops is lodged.


French 75

(military, historical) The Canon de 75 modèle 1897, an artillery piece capable of firing 75 mm shells.


tripflare

(military) A device consisting of tripwire that sets off a flare when triggered, used to warn of intruders.


NVA

North Vietnamese
North Vietnamese#English

(military, historical) Initialism of North Vietnamese Army.


Dengonomics

/ˌdɛŋəˈnɒmɪks/

(politics) The economic ideas and policies of Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.


Trumpsplain

Trumpsplain (third-person singular simple present Trumpsplains, present participle Trumpsplaining, simple past and past participle Trumpsplained)

Trumpsplains (present singular third-person)
Trumpsplaining (participle present)
Trumpsplained (participle past)
Trumpsplained (past)

"Two weeks abroad and I lost count of how many baffled Europeans asked us to explain Donald Trump," tweeted Sherry Stern, a California magazine editor who found herself Trumpsplaining in London, Cambridge and Budapest.

2016 August 11, Petula Dvorak, “Americans vacationing overseas find themselves on a Donald Trump apology tour”, in The Washington Post:

When it came to Trump, Gingrich started twerking faster than a five-buck stripper. He put his considerable conservative credibility and media skills to work Trumpsplaining how Donald's apostasies to conservative policy and principle were just fine.

2018, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Such “mistakes” became more commonplace and were glossed over, denied or “Trumpsplained” away as we witnessed the mainstreaming of something ugly we had thought we were well on our way to eradicating.

2020 February 19, Cheri Jacobus, “Dems are giving away Weinstein cash. GOP should do same with Mercer money.”, in USA Today:

(ambitransitive, US politics, informal) To explain or rationalize Donald Trump (born 1946), the 45th president of the United States, or his actions, remarks, policies, or popularity.


goolie chit

Officers hoped the document would see them returned home with their goolies (testicles) intact.

There was one other thing. If the goolie chits didn't prove all that persuasive, we each had a big .45 in a canvas holster around our waist, and Hudd and his man had Stirlings.

2010, David Fiddimore, Silent War, page 391:

"My oath," he said, "here's a man got his goolie chit. And I left mine behind. How fat can you get?"
"I've got mine," said Ward quietly, tapping his pocket.
"It's not your goolies I'm worried about," said Curnow.

(UK, military, slang) A document addressed to civilians in a combat zone offering a reward for safe return of a downed airman.


(US, taxation) A variant of the 1040 income tax return for non-resident tax payers.


Tax-exempt non-profits are required to provide their three most recent Form 990s if you ask, per the National Council of Nonprofits.

2020 June 19, Scottie Andrew, “What to consider as you donate to a social justice fund”, in CNN:

Like other tax-exempt nonprofits, AIEF must file a Form 990 every year with the IRS, but donors are redacted from the version that is made accessible to the public.

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

(US, taxation) An IRS form for tax-exempt organizations (such as charities).


section 104 holding

en-noun

section 104 holding (plural section 104 holdings)

Described by section 104 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992.

(taxation, UK) The situation where certain shares are pooled and treated as a single asset for tax purposes.


(UK, taxation) The main tax return form for individuals.


(UK, taxation) A tax return form for employees and company directors.


(UK, taxation) A tax return form for UK property income.


(UK, taxation) A tax return form for foreign income or gains.


(UK, taxation) A tax return form for capital gains.


(UK, taxation) A tax return form for non-residents and dual residents.


dual resident

(law, taxation) A person who is a resident for tax purposes in two or more countries.


(US, taxation) A form to declare that someone is a U.S. tax payer.


(US, taxation) A form to declare that someone is not a U.S. tax payer or to request reduced tax withholding.


double tax agreement

double tax agreement (countable and uncountable, plural double tax agreements)

double tax agreements (plural)
DTA (alternative)

(taxation) A bilateral treaty between two countries to resolve issues related to double taxation.

kaksinkertaista verotusta koskeva sopimus

soglašénije ob izbežánii dvojnóvo nalogoobložénija

соглаше́ние об избежа́нии двойно́го налогообложе́ния

dogovór ob izbežánii dvojnóvo nalogoobložénija

догово́р об избежа́нии двойно́го налогообложе́ния


Roexit

/ˌɹəʊˈɛɡ.zɪt/

/ˌɹəʊˈɛk.sɪt/

/ˌɹoʊˈɛɡ.zɪt/

(politics) The potential act of Romania leaving the European Union.

Romanian withdrawal from the European Union


Huxit

Blend of Hungary + exit, modeled on Brexit.

Hungary may be resisting the decision-makers in Brussels, but, for now, nobody is talking about a "Huxit" – a Hungarian exit from the EU. The referendum is not legally binding, nationally or internationally.

2016 September 24, Adam Lebor, “Hungary likely to reject European Union refugee quota”, in The Independent:

When they joined the Union, Eastern European citizens thought they were finally safe from authoritarianism. In theory at least, that leaves more room for outsiders to pressure the government. An exit from the EU, or Huxit, is an empty threat, and Hungarians do not want to be the black sheep of Europe.

2017 May 20, Jan-Werner Müller, “Hungary: The War on Education”, in The New York Review of Books:

Neither law nor political theory can proceed on the basis of measures of popularity – but it is worth remembering that approval ratings for (and trust in) the EU remain among the highest in Hungary and Poland.³² Huxit or Poxit do not appear to be credible threats at this point.

2020, Jan-Werner Müller, “What, If Anything, Can the EU Do?”, in János Mátyás Kovács, Balázs Trencsényi, editors, Brave New Hungary: Mapping the “System of National Cooperation”, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 327:

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


bend dexter

(heraldry) A diagonal band on a coat of arms going (from the viewer's perspective) from top left to the bottom right.


succdem

Blend of succ (“intentional misspelling of suck, referring to fellatio”) + socdem (“social democrat”).

blend

(Internet slang, politics, humorous, derogatory) Contraction of social democrat.

social democracy
social democracy#English

(Internet slang, politics, humorous, derogatory) Contraction of social democracy.


succdem

en-adj

succdem (comparative more succdem, superlative most succdem)

more succdem (comparative)
most succdem (superlative)

social democratic
social democratic#English

(Internet slang, politics, humorous, derogatory) Contraction of social democratic.


ancom

ancom (comparative more ancom, superlative most ancom)

more ancom (comparative)
most ancom (superlative)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet) Clipping of anarcho-communist.


ancom

en-noun

ancom (countable and uncountable, plural ancoms)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet, countable) Clipping of anarcho-communist.

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet, uncountable) Clipping of anarcho-communism.


internationalistic

en-adj

internationalistic (comparative more internationalistic, superlative most internationalistic)

more internationalistic (comparative)
most internationalistic (superlative)

(politics) Relating to, or exhibiting, internationalism.


Carthaginian peace

en-noun

Carthaginian peace (usually uncountable, plural Carthaginian peaces)

In reference to the draconian peace terms imposed on the Carthaginian Empire by the Roman Republic following the Punic Wars. At the end of the Third Punic War, Rome destroyed Carthage.

To be sure, the Treaty of Versailles was not a Carthaginian peace as many contemporaries, most notably John Maynard Keynes, believed. Germany was not crippled as an economic power. It remained the most populous state in Europe, its industrial potential was largely intact, and with the demise of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian empires Eastern Europe was now populated by small, fragile states. While on the surface reparations seemed to impose a huge burden on Germany’s public finances, Weimar’s inflation and the speculation that came with it led to a substantial net flow of capital into Germany.

2015, Stephen Gross, Export Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 50–51:

(politics) Peace maintained with devastating consequences for one of the parties involved; a very harsh peace, particularly one that results in the defeated side being destroyed or nearly so.


go negative

en-verb

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

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

After losing several primaries and facing a campaign debt of $250,000, his associates persuaded him to go negative.

2008, Lynda Lee Kaid, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, volume 1:

All four of the principle candidates in the 2008 presidential election “went negative” in their acceptance addresses.

2011, Judith S. Trent, Robert V. Friedenberg, Robert E. Denton (Jr.), Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices (page 235)

The goal of this chapter is to situate our work in the broader literature on negative campaigning, as well as to address a key question: why do candidates have to go negative?

2015, Kyle Mattes, David P. Redlawsk, The Positive Case for Negative Campaigning, page 24:

We also found that gubernatorial candidates went negative on Twitter.

2016, Yasmin Ibrahim, Politics, Protest, and Empowerment in Digital Spaces, page 187:

(US, politics) To focus on attacking political opponents rather than promoting oneself.


juwaub

These offices are often to be filled up, their untiring perseverance occasioning the secession of a member, who, after having sustained repeated juwaubs, is accepted at last, […]

1836, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia, page 97:

(India, dated, British military slang) A formal refusal.


juwaub

juwaub (third-person singular simple present juwaubs, present participle juwaubing, simple past and past participle juwaubed)

juwaubs (present singular third-person)
juwaubing (participle present)
juwaubed (participle past)
juwaubed (past)

(transitive, India, dated, British military slang) To refuse or rebuff.


nose-ender

Sayers won first blood by cutting Crouch's right eye, and the battle by knocking his man out with a nose-ender in 12 minutes 28 seconds, 6 rounds being fought.

1879, Ed James, The Lives and Battles of the Champions of England, page 39:

(boxing, slang, dated) A straight blow delivered full on the nasal promontory.


himpathetic

Blend of him + sympathetic, or of himpathy + sympathetic.

Yet it would be a mistake to view them as on a different plane of moral obtuseness, as opposed to merely being on the extreme end of a himpathetic spectrum on which many of us lie. Brock Turner's defenders exhibited forgiving tendencies, ...

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 200:

But in a himpathetic world view this does make sense because the question we are invited to ask is what does it mean for him? That Kavanaugh's (and, to an extent, Thomas's) privilege is such that his greatest fear is the loss of his name […]

2019, Karen Boyle, #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113:

This was picked up and repeated by women in the media who were “himpathetic” to the idea. Trump's win “gives us an opportunity to reflect on how badly misogynist forces can distort our thinking and bias our reasoning” (Manne 2019, 250).

2019, Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:

When a woman fails to give a man what he's supposedly owed, she will often face punishment and reprisal — whether from him, his himpathetic supporters, or the misogynistic social structures in [society].

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 11:

(feminism) Exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


himpathize

himpathize (third-person singular simple present himpathizes, present participle himpathizing, simple past and past participle himpathized)

himpathizes (present singular third-person)
himpathizing (participle present)
himpathized (participle past)
himpathized (past)

Blend of him + sympathize, or of himpathy + sympathize.

As Manne (2017) and Solnit (2017) have shown, we tend to sympathize (or 'himpathize') too much with men and their standpoints, and not enough with women and their standpoints. This results in a tendency to downplay men's transgressions ...

2019, Michelle Ciurria, An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility, Routledge, →ISBN:

... move in the political realm, particularly when they are challenging male authority. Female misogynists have made themselves visible in this era, being willing to exonerate, himpathize, and dismiss other women's concerns and accusations, were crucial to the outcome.

2019, L. H. Blumenfeld, Female Misogyny and Political Power, in Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, page 4

So here, as elsewhere, we ought to resist the pressure to himpathize. Incels have generated many headlines recently. It's easy to understand why, given the egregiously violent acts of misogyny some incels have committed.

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 30:

(feminism, rare) To exhibit himpathy; to inappropriately sympathize with men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


Flemish account

en-noun

Flemish account (plural Flemish accounts)

(naval, slang, obsolete) A tangled and unsatisfactory account or reckoning.


rogue's yarn

(naval, historical, slang) A thread of red, blue or gold worsted, worked into the ropes manufactured in the government Royal dockyards, to identify them if stolen. Red for Pompey (Portsmouth), Blue for Guz (Plymouth), Gold for Chatham. Also a blue thread worked into canvas for the same purpose.


ecocapitalist

ecocapitalists (plural)
eco-capitalist (alternative)

From eco- + capitalist and ecocapitalism + -ist.

To some an eco-capitalist, to others a die-hard hippy, farmer Patrick Holden reflects on shunning an ‘us’ and ‘them’ approach to organic farming for something altogether more holistic[.]

2014 August 20, Lucy Siegle, “Patrick Holden: 'People’s image of farming is a complete fantasy'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(politics) A person who subscribes to, an advocate of, a practitioner of, ecocapitalism.


ecocapitalist

en-adj

ecocapitalist (comparative more ecocapitalist, superlative most ecocapitalist)

more ecocapitalist (comparative)
most ecocapitalist (superlative)
eco-capitalist (alternative)

The ecocapitalist perspective suggests that sustainability and environmental conservation are entirely compatible within capitalist social relationships.

2011, Dustin Mulvaney, editor, Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide, SAGE, →ISBN, page 111:


ecocapitalism

For some, ecocapitalism is inherently a contradiction in terms. […] However, for free market enthusiasts, capitalism would remain largely unchanged in ecocapitalism.

2011, “Ecocapitalism”, in Dustin Mulvaney, editor, Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide, SAGE, →ISBN, page 111:

He’s recently been hanging out with renowned investor Warren Buffet’s son, Howard, on a combine harvester in Iowa. (“A great guy. He really gets soil!”) This won’t do much to calm the greens who accuse him of a brand of eco-capitalism.

(politics, ecology) The philosophy that market-based methods can solve environmental and ecological problems, through government policy.


red-green

red-green (comparative more red-green, superlative most red-green)

more red-green (comparative)
most red-green (superlative)

From red + green.
* (politics): from red representing socialism and green representing environmentalism or Islamism

Also the “red-green axis”—or, as French Prime Minister Manuel Valls calls it, “Islamo-leftism”—the partnership between Leftists and Islamists, is entrenched on campuses, as evidenced by myriad political resolutions passed by flagship organizations such as the Middle East Studies Association.

2016, Mark Silinsky, Jihad and the West: Black Flag over Babylon, →ISBN, page 49:

The core of the globalist coalition Houllebecq depicts in Submission subsumes the “Red-Green” coalition between the social-democratic left worldwide and the Muslim immigrants they have welcomed, what Houllebecq elsewhere calls “the unholy collusion between the far-left and radical Islam.”

2021, Michael S. Cochin, Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: The Pleasures of Decay in Houllebecq's Submission, →ISBN, page 160:

The Arab states that signed the Abraham Accords with Israel all have a common interest in containing the influence of the Red-Green Alliance.

2023, Ronnie Fraser, Lola Fraser, editors, Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: 20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns, →ISBN, page unknown:

(politics) Relating to an alliance between socialists and Islamists.


red green

(politics) Alternative form of red-green.


red green

red green (comparative more red green, superlative most red green)

more red green (comparative)
most red green (superlative)


veto pen

(politics, figurative) The ability to sign a veto; vetoing power.


morale patch

(military) Any humorous or unofficial patch worn by military personnel to identify their unit or team or to provide esprit de corps.


troopie

As a troopie in the army with many friends in African units, it is an embarrassment to be called on to operate with these men to find I am paid more than those whose command I am under.

1977, United States. Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa (issues 1841-1848, page 86)

A troopie with a north-of-England accent says it would be just like taking a battalion of the IRA and sticking them in with the army in Ulster.

1983, David Caute, Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia, page 187:

(South Africa, military, slang) A trooper; a private.


DVE

Some DVEs and other violent actors might target events related to the 2020 Presidential campaigns, the election itself, election results, or the post-election period. […] Spikes in other DVE threats probably will depend on political or social issues that often mobilize other ideological actors to violence, such as immigration, environmental, and police-related policy issues.

2020 October 7, “Homeland Threat Assessment”, in Department of Homeland Security, pages 17-18:

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of domestic violent extremist


HVE

Despite territorial defeats in Iraq and Syria, ISIS continues to draw support from HVEs in the United States and the group’s global calls for attacks have intensified since the death last year of senior leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

2020 October 7, “Homeland Threat Assessment”, in Department of Homeland Security, page 19:

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of homegrown violent extremist


Param Vir Chakra

(chiefly India, military) The highest military decoration awarded in India.


TACO

Coined by journalist Robert Armstrong in 2025 for the Financial Times on May 2 in a newspaper column. Named after President of the United States Donald J. Trump

named-after

This is the TACO theory: Trump Always Chickens Out," Armstrong wrote on May 2.

2025 May 28, Aimee Picchi, “Trump was asked about the "TACO" trade and called it a "nasty question." Here's what it means.”, in CBS News, archived from the original on 2025-06-01:

The “TACO” trades, first coined by the Financial Times, are one of the ways Wall Street has managed to profit from the chaos of the Trump administration.

2025 May 28, Ali Bianco, “Trump’s not happy about Wall Street’s name for tariff flip-flops”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 2025-06-01:

(US, politics, business, neologism) Acronym of Trump always chickens out.


TACO

Who Went To VIETNAM In TACO’S PLACE?

2025 June 18, “The tepid theatrics of Trump’s parade”, in Washington Post (Sign held by demonstrator in photograph):

(humorous, ironic, derogatory, slang, US politics) A nickname for Donald Trump (US president from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025)


Baathism

/bəˈʔɑːθɪzəm/

Bathism (alternative)
Ba'thism (alternative)
Baʻthism (alternative)
Ba'athism (alternative)
Baʻathism (alternative)

(politics) An Arab nationalist ideology that promotes the development and creation of a unified Arab state through the leadership of a vanguard party over a progressive revolutionary government.


waka-jumping

(New Zealand politics) The act of switching parties as a member of parliament.


waka-jumper

(New Zealand politics) A member of parliament who switches parties.


Helengrad

Blend of Helen + Stalingrad, named after New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and first used in late 1999 or early 2000 to compare her policies to communism in the Soviet Union.

(New Zealand politics, colloquial) The government of New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, or her seat of power in the capital Wellington.


Mother of all Budgets

Coined by New Zealand journalist David Cohen in 1991, in reference to Saddam Hussein's use of mother of all.

coin

(New Zealand politics) The 1991 New Zealand budget delivered by Minister of Finance Ruth Richardson.


bent copper

From bent (“not straight, corrupt, dishonest”) + copper (“policeman”), a variant of cop. It could also be a pun taken from a bent copper coin.

Onay remembered that he had placed 40 kilos at the bottom of his wardrobe. That meant approximately three and a half kilos had disappeared during the police raid. Bulent kept quiet but the officers eventually found out and a bent copper was later blamed for the alleged theft.

2007, Graham Johnson, Druglord, Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN:

Anticorruption is a double-edged sword. We need to find just enough bent coppers to avoid accusations of a cover-up, but not so many that the public starts to wonder if the police can be trusted.

2016 April 28, “Getting to the Truth”, in Line of Duty, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Gill Biggeloe (Polly Walker), archived from the original on 2021-05-17:

He had always been a bent copper. He had joined the police force with the intention of being a bent copper. In that, he had been eminently successful.

2019, Alan Jacobs, Me? I Kill People, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 298:

(UK, informal, law enforcement) A corrupt police officer.


niramiai

(sumo) The staredown between sumo wrestlers before a match.


liberal feminism

en-noun

liberal feminism (countable and uncountable, plural liberal feminisms)

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism defined by its focus on achieving gender equality within the framework of liberal democracy and through political and legal reform


antiparliamentarianism

(politics) The opposition to parliament and government by parliament


centre-right

(politics) Leaning to the right but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other rightist variants.

centrumrechts

leaning to the right but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other rightist variants


hangar rat

(military, slang) An air base employee who is not a pilot.


Hatched

(US politics, colloquial) Fired from one's job for violating the Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government from engaging in certain political activities.


on lobby terms

(UK, politics) Communicated by a political source to the press on the understanding that the source will not be named.


OPREP

(military) Abbreviation of operations report.


CHIS

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of covert human intelligence source.


horizontal escalation

(military) The escalation of a conflict by attacking an additional geographic region.


vertical escalation

(military) The escalation of a conflict by using more resources or more powerful weapons.


housekeeping bill

housekeeping bill (plural housekeeping bills)

(UK, politics) A bill (legislation) designed to keep the business of government and public affairs up to date, generally not having any substantial or controversial content.


LOW

(military) Acronym of launch on warning.


LUA

(military) Acronym of launch under attack.


neo-Fascism

Italian Social Republic
Italian Social Republic

(fascism, history) The ruling ideology of the Italian Social Republic.


DEFSMAC

(US, military) Acronym of Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center.


defector-in-place

(espionage) A person who defects to a foreign power but remains in their home country so as to gather information etc.


denied area

(US, espionage) An extremely hostile operational environment with heavy surveillance.


Dense Pack

densepack (alternative)
Densepack (alternative)

intercontinental ballistic missile
intercontinental ballistic missile

(military) The strategy of grouping intercontinental ballistic missile silos together in a line, so that the debris resulting from the destruction of one silo would form a protective layer for the others.


Qts.

From English term quarters, i.e. living quarters, by shortening.

Name and Address of Person Who Will Always Know Your Address:

1943, James Longuemare Mooney, draft registration card:

Priced for quick sale, call 83-2127 after 4:00. Qts. 2151 Curundu.

1958 December 18, “For Sale:—Boat”, in Harmodio Arias, editor, The Panama American, volume 34, Colón: The Panama American Press, Inc., →OCLC, Classifieds, page 10, column 6:

(US, military, in postal addresses) Abbreviation of quarters used when addressing mail.


Qtrs.

(see table below)

1989 August 18, “DODDS School Bus Routes -- Pacific”, in Colin Hale, editor, The Tropic Times, volume 2, number 29, Quarry Heights, Panama: United States Southern Command and Armed Forces Information Program, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:


Waxit

Blend of WA (“Western Australia”) + exit, patterned after Brexit and Grexit.

blend

(Australian politics) The secession of Western Australia from the nation of Australia, forming a separate country.


freedumb

Blend of freedom + dumb. First use appears c. 1856 as free-dumb.

He lookt rather strocked, an he says: “Aint a man goin to hav no freedumb of speech?” I told him, “Of course, you’ll hav all the freedumb of speech you want—but you came up here from Connettycut an got a clerkship becaus you couldn’t get inter office at home, an you didn’t want ter bone down ter hard work.[…]”

1866 March 18, Tranquill [pseudonym], “Keep Cool! Keep Cool! Keep Cool!”, in S[imon] P[arker] Hanscom, editor, Daily National Republican, volume VI, number 90, Washington, D.C.: W[illiam] J. Murtagh & Co., front page, column 4:

Liberty is great. Even a man that can’t talk, loves his freedumb.

1918 November 11, C. Green, “Wavelets from the Deep”, in M. F. Hetherington, editor, The Lakeland Evening Telegram, number 9, Lakeland, Fla., page [4], column 2:

Otherwise they retain their freedom or independence at the expense of being unable to express their ideas in an ordered manner. "Freedumb" versus Freedom!

1946, The University of Michigan (publisher), Rubber Journal - Volumes 110-111, page 129:

We hear the cry freedom, freedom, on every side, but it seems some men spell it freedumb.

1964, Pennsylvania Home Rule Association (contributor), Pennsylvania Road Builder - Volumes 37-38, page 5:

... all but the local hill-habitators who are all out and bigod they won't have any more cow if they ain't got freedumb to leave tubercles in the milk.

1971, Ezra Pound, The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941, page 265:

But whoever claims vociferously and advocates 100% freedom within themselves know that it is not so and is only 100% 'FREEDUMB'

1980, Institute of Traditional Cultures, Bulletin, page 83:

... Doob, following Pound's script, gives it as 'Freedumb Forum'.

1992, Jacqueline Kaye, Ezra Pound and America, page 27:

The freedom for free speech is rapidly becoming freedumb on all four feet.

2000, Norma E. Leary, For God's Sake, page 59:

But justice takes a stand / And releases us from the turmoil, / Freedumb rings from the hand / But not from the soil

2010, Maxine Y. Anderson, My Heart Aches So My Mind Bleeds - A Collection of Poetry, page 61:

But freedumb also tells us that we can do whatever we like, because we're free to ignore those who think they know better.

2011, Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, & Idiots Think They're Right:

My first day of terrifying, amazing freedumb flew by in a stupor.

2016, Lucy Woodhull, 667 Ways to F*ck Up My Life:

The Mythos Trinity - free-market capitalism, Judaeo-Christianity, and freedumb and dumbocracy - is a ferociously difficult system to overthrow because it appeals so powerfully to so many people.

2018, Joe Dixon, The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos:

Freedom or freedumb? Which do you choose?

2020, Mia Miata, The Goddess Code - Goddess in Womanifestation:

(slang, derogatory, US politics) Stupidity masquerading as love of freedom; an assertion of one's personal liberty which is perceived to be unreasonable or motivated by stupidity.


McCainite

(US politics) A political supporter or follower of US Senator John McCain.


Sleepy Joe

/ˈsliːpi ˈd͡ʒəʊ̯/

Coined by American current president Donald Trump in 2019, likely in reference to a series of videos where Biden appears to occasionally fall asleep during important meetings and television interviews.

coinage

Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe.

2019 April 25, @realDonaldTrump, Twitter, archived from the original on 2019-04-25:

His new dystopian vision, with militant and extreme language not typical in American politics, marks a sharp departure from Trump’s previous effort to cast Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” an establishment politician with deteriorating mental abilities.

2020 July 18, Michael Scherer, “From ‘Sleepy Joe’ to a destroyer of the ‘American way of life,’ Trump’s attacks on Biden make a dystopian shift”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2020-12-13:

Many mocked the president, while hashtags included "Sleepy Joe" – the name former President Donald Trump had referred to Biden as during the 2020 campaign.

[2021 November 1, Peter Suciu, “‘Sleepy Joe’ Trended After Biden Appeared To Nod Off During Climate Conference”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2021-11-27:


furiosant

RANGANT, a term used, in old heraldry, for the bull, bugle, or buffalo, when borne furiosant, or in a rage, or madness.

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

An old term for the bull etc., enraged, or furiosant.

2009 06, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 107:

(heraldry, uncommon, of a bull, ox, etc) Passant with head lowered, as if preparing to charge.


bonk ban

(Australia, politics, colloquial) A prohibition against sexual or intimate relationships between parliamentarians and staffers.


return fire

(military) The firing initiated after receiving incoming fire.


return fire

en-verb

return fire (third-person singular simple present returns fire, present participle returning fire, simple past and past participle returned fire)

returns fire (present singular third-person)
returning fire (participle present)
returned fire (participle past)
returned fire (past)

(military) To shoot at the person from whom fire is being received


Bidenian

en-adj

Bidenian (comparative more Bidenian, superlative most Bidenian)

more Bidenian (comparative)
most Bidenian (superlative)

It certainly does not follow that the women’s accusations would disqualify Biden from the presidency; one could point out, fairly, that Biden has behaved this way with men as well. (“Joe Biden doesn’t just meet you, he engulfs you,” Mark Bowden wrote in The Atlantic in 2010, generalizing the notion of Bidenian affection. […])

2019 April 1, Megan Garber, “Biden’s ‘Affectionate’ Behavior Was an Open Secret”, in The Atlantic:

The Violence against Women Act was not distinct from the Crime Bill but an integral part of it. […] Sanders has subsequently cited the inclusion of the VAWA as his reason for voting for the overall bill, on the rather Bidenian principle that the perfect should not be the enemy of the good.

2020 September 24, Keshava Guha, “Letters”, in London Review of Books, volume 42, number 18:

(US politics) Of or pertaining to Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician and the 46th president of the United States.


air cover

/ˈɛə ˌkʌv.ə/

/ˈɛː ˌkʌv.ə/

/ˈɛɹ ˌkʌv.ɚ/

But if the Government really wants our railway to reduce the level of its subsidy and improve value for taxpayers' money, then it must provide the political air cover to enable managers to get on and make the hard decisions that are needed... and then see them through.

2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 25:

(military) protection (of land or sea operations) by aircraft


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

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


RCEP

(UK, government) Abbreviation of Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.


red-tagging

(Philippines, Philippine politics) The ad hominem practice of branding, naming or accusing individuals or organizations critical or not fully supportive of the government's position as communists, leftists, subversives or terrorists in an attempt to discredit or suppress them.


theofascist

theofascist (comparative more theofascist, superlative most theofascist)

more theofascist (comparative)
most theofascist (superlative)

(fascism, uncommon) Of or pertaining to theofascism; theocratically fascist.


theofascist

(fascism, uncommon) A proponent of theofascism; a theocratic fascist.


radius of action

en-noun

radius of action (plural radii of action or radiuses of action)

radii of action (plural)
radiuses of action (plural)

(military) maximum distance a ship, vehicle, etc. can travel away from its base without refueling


Kennedynomics

Blend of Kennedy + economics, equivalent to Kennedy + -nomics.

Kennedy also championed what is now called Reaganomics. He cut taxes, increased government spending and borrowed money to finance it, all in the name of stimulating the economy. If you don’t like Reaganomics, you wouldn’t like Kennedynomics.

1988 December 6, Rusty Denton, “The fundamentals of life: Kennedy: The truth behind the man, the myth, and the legend”, in The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, page 9:

I don’t understand Reaganomics and never have. Of course I never understood Carternomics, Fordonomics, Nixonomics, Johnsonomics, or Kennedynomics either. The best I have been able to figure out is that you just send all you can to Washington and hope to get a little in return.

1992, Bo Whaley, “Section 1: Things I Just Don’t Understand”, in Why the South Lost THE War ...and Other Things I Don’t Understand, Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, →ISBN, “A Few Things I Don’t Understand”, page 20, column 2:

Clinton practices reverse Kennedynomics.

1993 November 22, New Bern Sun Journal, page 6:

Bush kept pushing tax-cutting as a panacea a la Reaganomics and Kennedynomics.

2002 August 2, Robert Cohen, “Recession started on Clinton's watch”, in alt.politics.economics (Usenet):

> II love Reaganomics. It worked fabulously under Reagan., and if it / > hadn't of been for politics everyone would see that. / > / > But Reaganomics alone won't cover the cost of this war in my opinion, / > / Then raise taxes, stall economic activity and reduce tax revenue, get some socialist democrats on the job. / Or, we can practice Kennedynomics. Those who want higher taxes can voluntarily increase their tax rate.

2006 October 29, TexasLurk, “What a hoot”, in dfw.singles (Usenet):

Economic policies associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy, 1961–1963.


MAGAt

MAGAts (plural)
MAGAT (alternative)
magat (alternative)

Blend of MAGA + maggot, with MAGA being an acronym of Make America Great Again, Donald Trump's campaign slogan.

But now I feel that those who are MAGATs are savagely vicious in a profoundly fundamental way. They seek out causes and people who will give them the outlet to spew poisonous hartred. And Trump knew this because it’s who he is too and because he wants power above everything else he exploits the MAGATs the same way every other vicious dictator has exploited their followers.

2019 February 18, Baxter, “tRump supporters”, in or.politics (Usenet):

I already know what you MAGAts are going to say: If you don't like America, leave it.
I will do no such thing. I love this country more than your Fox News-watching behinds ever will.

2019 July, Monica Roberts, “The Meaning of July 4 ...for black trans Americans.”, in OutSmart, volume 26, number 6, Houston, TX, page 29:

If and when things get bad enough that the administration's happy talk and lies are so obviously nonsense, they will simply pivot to finger-pointing and blame, as they have done so many times before. The MAGAt supporters have long since demonstrated they will swallow any manner of foul bullshit and pronounce it the sweetest ambrosia.

2020 March 5, Questor, “Re: For Number Junkies”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, offensive, derogatory) A political supporter of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States.


Bidenomics

I'm sort of reminded of “Bidenomics.” That's the new word used to describe the statements of the Vice President of the United States on economics.
He told a group yesterday, the AARP, that we have to spend more money. The Federal Government has to spend more money, the Vice President said, or else we're going to go bankrupt.

2009 July 17, Daniel E. Lungren, “Providing for Consideration of H.R. 1018, Restore Our American Mustangs Act”, in Congressional Record (United States House of Representatives, 111th Congress, First Session), volume 155, part 13, number 108, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 18188:

Bidenomics takes on two of the biggest long-term threats facing America: the rise of an increasingly autocratic China, and the looming dangers of climate change.

2022 October 27, “The risks of Bidenomics go beyond inflation”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

President Biden […] quickly took credit for the latest data showing a June slowdown in price increases. “Good jobs and lower costs: That’s Bidenomics in action,” Mr. Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.

2023 July 12, Alan Rappeport, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Touts Easing Inflation as Bidenomics in Action’”, in The New York Times:

(US politics) The economic ideas and policies of Joe Biden, American politician and the 46th president of the United States, characterized by relief measures, investments in infrastructure, and strengthening the safety net, funded by tax increases on higher-income individuals and corporations.


OBA

One Bermuda Alliance
w:One Bermuda Alliance

(politics) Initialism of One Bermuda Alliance.


Third-Worldization

(politics) The conversion of a nation into a Third-World nation.


Thud

The aircraft with the most threatening mission and highest loss rate was the F-105 Thunderchief. Of 833 "Thuds" built, 382 were lost between 1965-1972.

2002, US Naval Academy Class of 1954, 2nd edition:

The F-105 Thunderchief was already the air force's workhorse in Vietnam, flying three-quarters of Rolling Thunder sorties and suffering the highest casualties. […] We do know Thuds were very fast, could take a beating, and packed a big punch.

2014, John McCain, Mark Salter, Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War, page 255:

(US, military, dated slang) Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter.


reachback

(military) The ability to exploit resources and capabilities located elsewhere.


Stalin's organ

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Stalin's organ.wav

Calque of German Stalinorgel, in reference to its resemblance to a pipe organ and its distinctive sound.

(military, World War II, slang) A Katyusha rocket launcher.


MLU

MLU (countable and uncountable, plural MLUs)

(UK, healthcare) Initialism of midwife-led unit.


NRST

(taxation) Abbreviation of national retail sales tax.

(Canada, taxation) Abbreviation of non-resident speculation tax.


subproletariat

(politics) A class of people ranking below the proletariat.


glass chin

(boxing, figurative) Synonym of glass jaw.


desk sergeant

A woman ran into the police station and told the desk sergeant she had been robbed.

After arriving at the Area A police station, I renewed my protests that as a working reporter with visible police credentials, I should not have been arrested. The desk sergeant insisted that I be booked, however, and I was put into the holding tank, a fifteen-by-fifteen dark and filthy cell, with 49 other people.

1983 December 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Bust 70 Anti-Nuke Demonstrators”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 6:

(law enforcement) A sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.


EQAO

w:Education Quality and Accountability Office

(Canadian politics, education) Initialism of Education Quality and Accountability Office, a government agency in the province of Ontario that provides accountability of the province's public education system by means of standardized testing.


SOFA

international relations
international relations

(international relations, military, law, politics) Acronym of status of forces agreement, an agreement that allows long-term garrisoning of foreign troops in the host country.


SCIF

w:sensitive compartmented information facility

(military, government) Acronym of sensitive compartmented information facility


throw-weight

throw-weight (countable and uncountable, plural throw-weights)

throw-weights (plural)
throw weight (alternative)

The Soviet arsenal of deliverable nuclear weapons was significantly smaller than the American one in 1960, but grew fast. By 1964 it had reached about 1,000 megatonnes, or about 13 per cent greater than the US 'throw weight' in that year, but less than the Americans had had in 1964.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 76:

(military) A measure of the effective weight of ballistic missile payloads, given in kilograms or tonnes.

(military, nautical) A measure of the total weight of projectiles that can be delivered by a single broadside.


CISA

w:Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

(US, government, computing, security) Acronym of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.


SVR

From Russian СВР (SVR), initialism of Служба Внешней Разведки (Služba Vnešnej Razvedki, “Foreign Intelligence Service”).

(initialism, Russia, politics, espionage, international relations) The civilian external intelligence directorate of Russia

СВР

Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, Foreign Intelligence Service


Stohwasser

Stohwassers (plural)
stohwasser (alternative)

"When I heard your cry and ran forward, and saw your head twisted half-off and your stohwassers kickin' in the air, I thought we were one short."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(military) A type of leather covering for the lower leg.


missile gap

(US, military, historical) The perceived superiority during the Cold War of the number and power of the USSR's missiles in comparison with those of the United States.


bomber gap

(US, military, historical) The perceived superiority during the Cold War of the USSR's ability to deploy jet-powered strategic bombers.


rattachism

(politics) An ideology calling for the French-speaking part of Belgium or Wallonia to secede from the state of Belgium and become part of France.


Faragism

From Farage + -ism. From Nigel Farage, a British politician.

(British politics, informal) The ideology, practice, philosophy and politics espoused by British nationalist autonomist sovereigntist politician Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and, Reform UK.


LSST

(US, military, law) Initialism of legal services support team.


NDF

Namibian Defence Force
w:Namibian Defence Force

(Namibia, military) Initialism of Namibian Defence Force.


two-partyism

(politics) A political system in which voters are given the choice between two parties.


fascine knife

From fascine + knife, from one use of such knives which was to cut wood for fascines and gabions (“cylindrical wicker baskets or cages filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications, etc.”).

2000 Canteens. 600 Camp Kettles. 200 Fascine Knives. […] It is to be presumed the troops will be provided with these articles.

1779 March 2 (date written), George Washington, “To Major General Nathanael Greene”, in John C[lement] Fitzpatrick, editor, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745–1799 […], volume 14 (January 12, 1779 – May 5, 1779), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published August 1956, →OCLC, page 178:

The [artillery] men have a short rifle and bayonet, and carry also a fascine knife; 10 rounds of ammunition in the pouch.

[1876], W[illiam] S[mith] Cooke, compiler, “Servia”, in The Ottoman Empire and its Tributary States (Excepting Egypt), with a Sketch of Greece, London: W[illiam] Clowes and Son, […], →OCLC, page 162:

The private should have a side arm of the following description: A short sword, about 20 inches long and 2½ inches wide at the grip; the blade to be ground sharp on one side and provided with saw teeth on the other; have a brass guard and buckhorn grip, and to be carried in a leather scabbard on a frog and common black belt. This is called in Europe a fascine knife, and a very useful implement it is in camp and on the field.

1888 September 29, “Toujours Pret” [pseudonym], “The Hospital Corps [letter to the editor]”, in The United States Army and Navy Journal, and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces, volume XXVI, number 5 (number 1316 overall), New York, N.Y.: [Army and Navy Journal, Inc.], →OCLC, page 93, column 3:

Verily the man must feel as though he were in a dream; only a short time before, at a shoemaker's ordinary work, the knocking of his hammer mingling with the sighs of a sick wife, and now, fascine knife on hip, helmet on closely cropped head, officers' commands in ear, crowds of people, drums, music, and the shrill whistle of the locomotive!—to march far away to Bohemia; […]

1889, Cornelia McFadden, chapter V, in The Seamstress of Stettin, Cincinnati, Oh.: Curtis & Jennings; New York, N.Y.: Eaton & Mains, →OCLC, pages 141–142:

[I]f he were furnished with a hundred natives—whom he would get from the population on the coast—supplied with axes and fascine-knives, he would undertake to lead a caravan of beasts of burden to the Kenia without any delay worth mentioning.

1891, Theodor Hertzka, chapter II, in Arthur Ransom, transl., Freeland: A Social Anticipation, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, book I, page 10:

Sappeur sections carry in addition a mattock or a pick apiece, and each ammunition carrier also carries a pick, a fascine knife, or a saw.

1911, [William] Balck, “The Formal Tactics of Infantry”, in Walter Krueger, transl., Tactics […], 4th edition, volumes I (Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry), Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: United States Cavalry Association, →OCLC, footnote ‡, page 39:

Later, some military fascine knives were made with saw-toothed backs, notably the Prussian M1810, M1841 and M1855 Faschinenmesser. Fascine knives were widely issued to engineers, pioneers and foot-artillerymen; smaller numbers were issued to other arms as circumstances dictated.

2021, Bill Harriman, “Development: Blades for Firearms”, in Martin Pegler, editor, The Bayonet (Weapon; 78), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 28:

(military, weaponry, historical) A large, heavy knife or short sword used by 17th- to 19th-century artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and a tool for cutting fascines (“cylindrical bundles of small sticks of wood, used for strengthening purposes”) and other things.

hukari

large, heavy knife or short sword formerly used by artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and tool

砲兵刀 (ほうへいとう, hōhei gatana, literally “artilleryman’s knife”)


cakeist

en-adj

cakeist (comparative more cakeist, superlative most cakeist)

more cakeist (comparative)
most cakeist (superlative)

Some said the proposed Brexit deal was cakeist.

May's cakeist approach to Brexit (as in, having it and eating it) is beginning to find its limits.

2017 September 22, Anne Perkins, “Theresa May's Florence speech – our writers' verdicts”, in The Guardian:

As a leadership candidate, Mr Johnson has run a strongly cakeist campaign.

2019 July 15, Gideon Rachman, “Boris Johnson, ‘cakeism’ and the Blitz spirit”, in the Financial Times:

Harry and Meghan are easy to sympathize with. Who isn’t in favor of having cake and eating it, too? In politics, after all, everyone is a cakeist: No one wants to pay more tax, but everyone wants better services.

2020 January 10, Tom McTague, “The Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s Decision”, in The Atlantic:

I want you to see that this is a cakeist treaty.

2020 December 30, “Post-Brexit trade: UK having its cake and eating it, says Boris Johnson”, in BBC News:

In the cakeist view, Britain could retain the benefits of EU membership without any obligation to European law.

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

having one's cake and eating it
having one's cake and eating it

(UK politics) Of or pertaining to having one's cake and eating it.


ebanzuke

(sumo) A banzuke illustrated with pictures of the wrestlers


fudadome

(sumo) sold out said of spectators' seats


hanamichi

(sumo) Either of the East or West paths that lead to the dohyo


harite

(sumo) A slap (strike with an open hand)


hazuoshi

(sumo) The act of pushing the opponent with hands beneath his armpits


hiwaza

(sumo) Any of passive several ways of winning because the opponent makes a mistake


itamiwake

(sumo) A draw due to the injury of one of the wrestlers


kadoban

(sumo) An ozeki who is in danger of demotion


kuisagaru

(sumo) A technique in which a wrestler lowers his centre of gravity and pushes his opponent out of the ring


maemitsu

(sumo) A grip on the front of the mawashi


makikae

(sumo) A quick change from an overarm to an underarm grip on the opponent's mawashi


nekodamashi

(sumo) The act of clapping the hands in order to distract one's opponent.


nodowa

From Japanese 喉輪 (literally “throat ring”).

(sumo) A thrust at the opponent's throat.


okamisan

From Japanese 女将さん (okami-san, literally “miss proprietress”).

bor

(sumo) The wife of a stablemaster who oversees all activities except coaching


sewanin

(sumo) A retired wrestler who assists at a stable.


shimenawa

(sumo) A length of straw that lines the ring (used as ritual purification in shinto)


shingitai

(sumo) The qualities of head, technique and body held to be essential for a successful wrestler


shonichi

(sumo) The first day of a basho, or the first win after a string of defeats


tegatana

From Japanese 手刀 (tegatana, “knife hand”).

(sumo) The ceremonial gesture made by a winning wrestler after receiving his prize money.


wakaimonogashira

(sumo) A retired wrestler who works with new recruits


zanbara

(sumo) hair that is loose and dishevelled and too short to be arranged into a chonmage


ceramah

(Malaysia, politics); public talk, speech, political campaign or rally for a certain candidate


buck general

(US, military slang) A brigadier general.


bugger's grip

Humorous reference to their supposed use as handholds during anal sex.

(military, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) Bushy sideburns.


bullet voting

(politics) The practice of voting for only one candidate, despite being entitled to vote for more than one.


bullet vote

(politics) An elector's sole vote for a single candidate, despite being entitled to vote for more than one.


bundleman

From bundle + -man, from the idea of their taking a bundle of possessions ashore when visiting their spouse.

(naval slang, historical) A married member of the navy.


Butskellian

en-adj

Butskellian (comparative more Butskellian, superlative most Butskellian)

more Butskellian (comparative)
most Butskellian (superlative)

(UK politics, now historical) Of or relating to Butskellism.


general office

(politics) An administrative political organ in Communist governments, responsible for communications, scheduling, agenda preparation, etc.


open convention

en-noun

open convention (plural open conventions)

brokered convention
brokered convention#English

(US politics) Synonym of brokered convention.


brokered convention

brokered convention (plural brokered conventions)

(US politics) A political convention held during a presidential election when a political party fails to choose a nominee on the first round of delegate voting at the party's nominating convention.


Massacre of the Innocents

the Massacre of the Innocents (canonical)

(UK, politics, humorous) The abandonment of potentially useful measures at the end of a session in the House of Commons, since there is no time to pass them.


chest candy

(military, slang) Medals and ribbons worn on the chest.


training ground

training ground (plural training grounds)

(sports, military) A place or ground used for training.


rightoid

(politics, Internet slang, derogatory) Rightist, right-winger


(US politics) Abbreviation of First Amendment.


heavy artillery

(military) Large and powerful artillery, often large-caliber and large-distance.


Polexit

/ˌpəʊˈlɛɡ.zɪt/

Blend of Poland + exit, by analogy with Brexit.

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

Polish withdrawal from the European Union


bellwether state

bellwether state (plural bellwether states)

(idiomatic, US politics) A state of the United States that historically votes for the winning candidate in a given election.


wet heater

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(military, mechanical engineering) A torpedo engine where water is injected into the combustion chamber alongside fuel and compressed air or oxygen, cooling the engine and increasing its power through the production and expansion of steam.


dry heater

(military, mechanical engineering) A torpedo engine powered by the burning of fuel with compressed air or oxygen, which does not inject water into the combustion chamber for engine cooling and extra power.


ordnanceman

Ordnancemen stenciled bombs with “greetings” on behalf of friends and loved ones back home or slogans playing on beer and cigarette advertisements[…]

1993, Joseph T. Stanik, "Swift and Effective Retribution": The U.S. Sixth Fleet and the Confrontation with Qaddafi (The U.S. Navy in the Modern World Series; 3), Naval Historical Center:

(military) A person responsible for storing, maintaining, and handling ordnance.


black gangster

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

bor

[…] and branded more than one-third of the people in the Agriculture Ministry as "rightists" or "black gangsters."

1968, Survey of China Mainland Press: Supplement, page 14:

It was not always clear who was a counterrevolutionary or a black gangster for that matter. Former landlords, capitalists, and rich peasants were more readily spotted, but even here there was some difficulty […]

1970, Jan S. Prybyla, The Political Economy of Communist China, page 539:

The radicals held that Liu's men were 'black gangsters' in league with the ousted Party committees.

2016, Philip Short, Mao: The Man Who Made China, page 534:

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


firecan

When the firecan jockeys have flown their blowtorches some 100,000 miles, the doctors take over for the ground physical.

1949, Popular Science, volume 155, number 6, page 120:


Quad

(UK politics, historical) A coalition committee that resolved party disputes during the Cameron–Clegg coalition.


monoparty

(politics) Having only one political party, especially where opposition parties are outlawed; one-party, uniparty.


uniparty

[ˈjuːnɪˌpʰɑɹɾi]

The approaches discussed are ( in shorthand ) the charismatic legitimation theory, the elite-mass gap theory, and the uniparty theory.

1967, Claude Ake, A Theory of Political Integration, page 14:

The command economy, well as other factors, fosters non-participatory political systems, and gives rise to uniparty situations.

1980, Richard A. Fredland, Africa Faces the World, page 21:

Fourth, in order to consolidate uniparty systems, African party leaders have put forward a theoretical defense, a rationale, for the new type of polity.

2021, James S. Coleman, Carl G. Rosberg, Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa, page 668:

(politics) Having only one political party, especially where opposition parties are outlawed; one-party, monoparty.


uniparty

[ˈjuːnɪˌpʰɑɹɾi]

Trump will never be part of the uniparty because he may be the first American politician to successfully run against it as a foil.

2020, Matt Gaetz, Firebrand: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the MAGA Revolution:

While the power in the party still resided with those most compromised by the DC uniparty and who rarely challenged the ruling oligarchic elites, there were hints of a new America First Caucus being formed in the House that was committed to policies that challenged the bipartisan status quo.

But the moment they got the slightest traction with all the good ideas they had in tow, the uniparty swung into action. Neither Republicans nor Democrats dared allow anyone not willing to play by the new rules to win.

2023, Floyd G. Brown, Counterpunch, page 20:

(US, politics, derogatory) Multiple political parties that have a shared vision which tends to uphold the same powerful elite regardless of party affiliation.


blue slip

(US politics) In the House of Representatives, a rejection slip given to tax and spending bills sent to it by the Senate that did not originate in the House, per the House's interpretation of the Origination Clause.

(US politics) In the Senate, the slip on which the senators from the state of residence of a federal judicial nominee give an opinion on the nominee.


dual phenomenology

(US, military) The requirement for an incoming nuclear attack to be confirmed by both satellite and radar before retaliatory action is taken.


socialism with a human face

en-noun

socialism with a human face (uncountable)

(politics, historical) The political programme of mild democratization and liberalization, established in socialist Czechoslovakia in 1968, that led to the Prague Spring.

insan üzlü sosializm

political program of reforming state socialism — see also political program of reforming state socialism


PNQ

private notice question
private notice question#English

(UK politics) Initialism of private notice question.


private notice question

private notice question (plural private notice questions)

(UK politics) A topical question asked of the government by a member of the House of Lords, requiring an immediate response.


proletarian internationalism

(politics) The perception of all communist revolutions as being part of a single global class struggle rather than separate localized events.


ship over

en-verb

ship over (third-person singular simple present ships over, present participle shipping over, simple past and past participle shipped over)

ships over (present singular third-person)
shipping over (participle present)
shipped over (participle past)
shipped over (past)

His friend had just shipped over in the Navy and was sporting a new hashmark, and talked Smokey into going to the recruiting office.

2002, Enlisted Naval Aviation Pilots, page 56:


meritorious mast

en-noun

meritorious mast (plural meritorious masts)

(naval) A modern version of the mast (naval disciplinary hearing) in which the commanding officer singles out a crewmember for formal discipline.


VPD

V.P.D. (alternative)
V. P. D. (alternative)

Police Department
police department#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of Vancouver Police Department.

(Canada) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.

(US) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in the State of Washington, USA.


Rose Garden rubbish

In reference to the White House Rose Garden.

(US politics, derogatory) Scripted minor speeches or remarks prepared for the president to deliver.