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card-carrying, a. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈkɑːdˌkarɪɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈkɑrdˌkɛriɪŋ|
[‹ card n.2 + carrying adj.]
1. Having a membership card of a specified organization, freq. a political party (esp. the Communist Party); (hence) designating a loyal, dedicated member of such an organization.
1927Wisconsin 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. 1943N.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. 1948B. Andrews Washington Witch Hunt ii. 96 The most dangerous Communists in the nation today are not the open, avowed, card-carrying party members. 1952N.Y. Times 6 July e1/3 One Chicago newspaperman last week characterized him..as a ‘card-carrying Republican’. 1972Jrnl. Lat. Amer. Stud. 4 251 These totals were not those of card-carrying members, only those of turn-outs in party internal elections. 1999Jrnl. 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.
2. fig. (often humorous). Strongly identified or identifying with a particular group; typical or characteristic of a certain type of person; confirmed in or dedicated to a specified outlook or pursuit.
1955Polit. 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.]. 1970New Yorker 24 Oct. 169/1 Miss Rivers, a card-carrying yenta, displays gravelly authority in ‘Just Like a Man’. 1979J. D. McDonald Green Ripper (1980) xiii. 230 As a card-carrying pessimist, I could expect nothing good from that. 1986New Statesman 26 Sept. 30/3 A young polyester-suited card-carrying and careerist assistant curator. 1995J. 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. 2001Out Mar. 52 Every card-carrying gay man in America has got to see this show!
Derivatives. card-carrier n.
1966‘W. Haggard’ Power House iii. 27 His wife was a communist... She wasn't a *card-carrier. |