单词 | pork-chopper |
释义 | pork-choppern. U.S. slang. A full-time union official, esp. one whose position is a sinecure, or who uses it for personal profit, benefit, or advantage. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > those involved in labour relations > [noun] > member of trade union > official labour skate1930 pork-chopper1941 1941 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Jan. 26/6 The pork-barrelers at the top..are slowly coming under governmental supervision—but the pork chopper [s] at the bottom..are still undermining democracy. 1946 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. iv. 7/7 In the UAW, the rank and file call those who live by income derived from the union ‘pork-choppers’. 1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §527/2 Pork-chopper, an official who is in the union for self-interested reasons. 1968 Economist 2 Nov. 30/2 They feel mostly contempt for the ‘pork-chopper’—the former factory workers who have become full-time members of the union staff. 1997 Nation 20 Oct. 3/2 The pie-cards and porkchoppers who cut the deals, sell out the members. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1941 |
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