polpol /pɒl $ pɑːl/ noun [countable] American English informalWord Origin
WORD ORIGINpol
Origin:
1900-2000politician
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Apparently Grijalva has declared himself the moral guidepost for other local pols.
But the mayor had studiously avoided endorsing any of the old pols running.
Forbes is traveling the country at an impressive clip, spreading his flat-tax message and pocketing IOUs from Republican pols.
In his view, Dole is just another Washington pol.
Thereafter the pols rejected Jack as unworthy, and tried to destroy him.
They loved the issues, hated the pols.
They were handshaking, backslapping old-style Texas pols.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►at one pole/at opposite poles
We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other. Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles (=think in two completely different ways) on this issue.
►polling station
(=where you vote in an election)
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES►be worlds/poles apart
But his method of filming and Huston's were worlds apart.
Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
Physically they were almost identical, but psychologically they were worlds apart.
The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
The two feelings were poles apart.
Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
Watching somebody and actually killing them are worlds apart.
You all say that but the truth is, the theory and the practice are worlds apart.
►be poles apart
Tokyo and Washington remain poles apart on the issue of free trade.
I suppose that logicians and physicists normally consider themselves to be poles apart.
Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
The two feelings were poles apart.
Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart.
a politician – used in newspapers: He’s just another Washington pol.