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Republicrat U.S. politics.|rɪˈpʌblɪkræt|
Also Republocrat.
[Blend of republican n. 3 + democrat 2.]
A member of a political faction that includes both Republicans and Democrats. Also, a conservative Democrat with Republican sympathies.
1940Better Eng. Oct. 55/1 A republocrat, as ‘Time’ uses it, is a republican or a democrat who will have anyone but Mr. Hoover. 1944N.Y. Post 24 Apr. 19/4 The ‘Republicrats’, meaning reactionary Democrats in league with the Republicans, want to discredit F.D.R. 1946Time 22 Apr. 11/1 Would you be good enough to give us the names of the ‘republocrats’ in the House and Senate who have organized for the purpose of defeating President Truman's legislative program? 1949Southern Farmer July 3 All we ask is that the Hindu philosophers tell us how to make the Southern Republicrats climb up a rope and disappear.
Hence Republiˈcratic a.
1944New Republic 19 June 801/1 The Republicratic gang engineering the supposed Southern ‘revolt’ against the New Deal appears well satisfied with the results of the Mississippi convention. |