waka jumper
noun NZ informal
An MP who leaves their political party during a parliamentary term: the bill ensures that parliamentarians who are voted in by their electors cannot be waka jumpers...
- He is a waka jumper, and he has been in five political parties.
- Haven't most of the waka jumpers of the last decade taken a step to the right?
- His funding should not be reinstated by relying on a ridiculous technicality and a rule designed for a completely different purpose—to deter real waka jumpers.
Origin
Early 21st century: from waka + jumper2.
- well-headed
- well-hearted
- well-heated
- well heeled
- well-hewn
- well-hinged
- well-hoarded
- well hole
- well hook
- well-horned
- well-horsed
- well house
- well-housed
- well-hued
- well-humored
- well-humoured
- well hung
- well-husbanded
- well, I declare
- wellie
- well I'll be (or I'm) damned
- well, I'll be (or I'm) jiggered
- head someone/thing off
- headspace
- head spade