单词 | card-carrying |
释义 | card-carryingadj. Originally U.S. 1. Registered as a member of a specified organization, frequently a political party (esp. a socialist or communist one) or a trade union; spec. carrying one's membership card; (hence) loyal or dedicated in, or openly displaying, one's membership. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [adjective] > type of adherent stout1586 straight-out1848 card-carrying1911 majoritarian1918 1911 Industr. Worker (Spokane, Washington) 29 June The card-carrying Socialist mayor of Grand Junction, Colorado..has ordered the ‘Socialist’ policemen to run all hoboes out of the city. 1927 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 22 Oct. 4/2 It [sc. the United Farmers] arranges with local merchants to give all card-carrying members a discount when they come to town for purchases. 1943 N.Y. Times 21 June 6/1 The union contended that layoffs should be confined to the temporary permit men and should not affect card-carrying members. 1948 B. Andrews Washington Witch Hunt ii. 96 The most dangerous Communists in the nation today are not the open, avowed, card-carrying party members. 1972 Jrnl. Lat. Amer. Stud. 4 251 These totals were not those of card-carrying members, only those of turn-outs in party internal elections. 1999 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 71 500 The Gestapo was recruited in 1933 not mainly from card-carrying Nazis but instead from professional police officers who shared some attitudes with the NSDAP. 2016 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 27 Mar. (Herald-Times ed.) e7/3 As a lifetime, card carrying, hat wearing member of the NRA, I am proud that I can buy a gun and ammunition on Sunday. 2. figurative (often humorous). Strongly identifying with, established in, or typical of a particular group or type; confirmed in or dedicated to a specified outlook, pursuit, way of life, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > that does something habitually > inveterate or confirmed composed1483 wedded1578 fastened1596 dyed in the wool1597 sworna1616 hardeneda1618 engrained1630 steadfast1644 radicateda1661 inveterate1735 professional1814 confirmed1827 card-carrying1939 1939 Sporting News (St. Louis, Missouri) 28 Dec. 10/3 A professional musician and a card-carrying movie operator, who has had little experience in the technique of baseball..—that's Lewis E. Mumaw, road secretary of the Cleveland Indians. 1948 Corpus Christi (Texas) Times 5 July 5 b/3 There weren't nearly enough card-carrying bagpipers in the musicians' local. 1955 Polit. Sci. Q. 70 477 Although the authors are card-carrying academicians, with Ph.D.'s from Georgetown, their volume is less a scholarly novelty than [etc.]. 1970 New Yorker 24 Oct. 169/1 Miss Rivers, a card-carrying yenta, displays gravelly authority in ‘Just Like a Man’. 1979 J. D. McDonald Green Ripper (1980) xiii. 230 As a card-carrying pessimist, I could expect nothing good from that. 1995 J. F. Garner Once upon more Enlightened Time 21 He was also determined to perpetuate this undemocratic tyranny by marrying only a real, authentic, card-carrying princess. 2001 Out Mar. 52 Every card-carrying gay man in America has got to see this show! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1911 |
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