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fingergate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
fin-ger-gate
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A 2015 controversy around a video, later found to be doctored, allegedly showing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis making an obscene hand gesture to punctuate his comments about the financial relationship of Greece and Germany during a lecture in Croatia in 2013.

Informal

Example Sentences

Etymology

From finger + -gate.

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Questions

What does fingergate mean?
A 2015 controversy around a video, later found to be doctored, allegedly showing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis making an obscene hand gesture to punctuate his comments about the financial relationship of Greece and Germany during a lecture in Croatia in 2013.
Where does fingergate come from?
From finger + -gate.

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