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单词 card-carrying
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card-carryingadj.

Brit. /ˈkɑːdˌkarɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkɑrdˌkɛriɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: card n.2, carrying adj.
Etymology: < card n.2 + carrying adj.
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.
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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.
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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).
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