单词 | outseg |
释义 | outsegv. U.S. colloquial. Now rare. transitive. To support or advocate a more segregationist policy than (another person). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [verb (transitive)] > discriminate against or segregate > support segregationalist policy outseg1963 1963 Science New Ser. 27 Sept. 1263/2 As one acquaintance put it, ‘Carl has not tried to “out-seg” the [George C.] Wallace crowd.’ 1967 Time 13 Oct. 19 Governors Spiro Agnew of Maryland and Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas won office even though their Democratic opponents ‘outsegged’ them. 1970 Manch. Guardian Weekly 4 Apr. 14 Brewer..acquired a reputation as an effective administrator, and, most important, he has no intention of being ‘Out-segged’ by Wallace. 1994 W. W. Rogers et al. Alabama Hist. Deep South State xxxii. 572 Wallace lost to Patterson by a vote of 250,000 to 365,000. Wallace attributed his loss to being ‘outsegged’ and vowed it would never happen again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1963 |
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