Politics Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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blow-in n. Kerry swept the district’s upscale suburbs, but not the mill towns, where unemployment was rising as jobs fled. There, locals tagged Kerry with their own slang for carpetbagger: “blow-in.” [English United States Massachusetts Politics] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2004)

blow-in n. On Saturday, Bradfield’s 190 pre-selectors will declare the result of this young bull/old bull stoush between the 36-year-old blow-in from Hobart, and the white-haired David Connolly, who is nearing the end of his political career after 21 years on a margin which rarely slipped below 23 per cent. [English Politics] [full cite] (Aug. 13, 2004)

blow-in n. The Government hypes the professed wisdom that Kernot was a high-profile “blow-in” who almost failed because the voters of Dickson, in Brisbane’s southern suburbs, wouldn’t accept a political carpetbagger. [English Politics] [full cite] (Aug. 13, 2004)

blow-in n. Rudy Giuliani has been plugging away at the carpetbagger charge and plans his own fundraiser in Arkansas to highlight her New York “blow-in” status. [English Politics] [full cite] (Aug. 13, 2004)

blue box n. Green box, blue box, amber box and de minimus—which refer to the various kinds of subsidies governments give to the farming community—are terms used quite frequently in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) parlance. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Politics] [full cite] (Nov. 28, 2005)

blue-slipping n. I knew that judicial nominees could be blocked by a senator from their home state (a procedure called blue-slipping), but I had no idea a bill could be blocked from a floor vote by an anonymous hold. [English Politics Jargon] [full cite] (May. 28, 2007)

blue-state tax n. Democratic leaders in Congress are vowing to make the alternative minimum tax a centerpiece of next year’s budget debate, saying the levy threatens to unfairly increase tax bills for millions of middle-class families by the end of the decade.…The focus on the tax is hardly surprising, given that victims of the tax have been concentrated in high-cost urban areas such as Washington, New York, and San Francisco—places that tend to vote Democratic. Rangel, Hoyer, and Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, the minority leader, all represent states hit hard by the tax, which is sometimes called the “blue-state tax.” To map states with the highest concentrations of such taxpayers is to draw bull’s-eyes over California and the Northeastern seaboard [English Government Money & Finance Politics] [full cite] (Nov. 16, 2006)

bobtailing n. The court held the Legislature had violated the state Constitution by attaching nongermane items to a law that pertained to another subject, a practice called “bobtailing.” [ Language English Subject Politics] [full cite] (Oct. 30, 2005)

boo word n. I am here not using “liberal” as a boo word meaning “Lefty,” but in its proper sense of offering freedom and opportunity. [English Politics] [full cite] (Sep. 3, 2006)

boo word n. Defector has pejorative connotations. It is a boo word. [English Politics Colloquial] [full cite] (Sep. 4, 2006)

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