veep
/viːp
/noun North American informal
A vice president: since becoming veep he’s mostly been Mr Nice Guy...
- But - 41% of modern veeps have eventually become president and another 25% have been their party's candidate for president.
- The 25th Amendment affords Clinton another route to the vice presidency: In the event the vice presidency is vacated, the president appoints a new veep, subject to confirmation by Congress.
- Predicting who the veep will be for each party is, of course, a favorite parlor game - and this year, a particularly long one.
Origin
1940s: from the initials VP.
Rhymes
- parabasal
- parabasis
- Parabellum
- parabema
- paraben
- parabiont
- parabiosis
- parabiotic
- parabiotically
- parablast
- parable
- parable-like
- parable people
- parablepsy
- parableptic
- parabola
- Parabolanus
- parabole
- parabolic
- parabolical
- parabolically
- parabolic branch
- parabolic microphone
- parabolic point
- parabolic reflector