republicrat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party.
American usage; Derogatory
noun
The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties.
American usage; Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "This hybrid voting behavior may be called "Republicrat", and obviously it must depress Republicanism in Southern congressional, state, and local politics."
- "We need to make people understand that decisions being made on local levels are often far more influential in our lives and probably the only real way — unless we're able to radically change the way our one-party Republicrat system works — to make change."
- "Both wings of the ruling "Republicrat" Party try to outdo themselves in announcing new, ever more draconian measures to restrict, repress, restrain, and eliminate the poor."
- "Rather, we have a single Republicrat party of greedy, self-serving, amoral, power-driven professional politicians..."
- "Given how often he votes with the opposition, Joe Manchin's ideology is very much Republicrat."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Derogatory