big brotherdom
noun
Control over or intrusion into people's lives by political or administrative authorities, especially the State.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Punch.
- viola da gamba
- viola d'amore
- violate
- violater
- violation
- violator
- violatory
- violaxanthin
- viol da gamba
- viol da gambist
- violence
- violencing
- violency
- violent
- go one's own way
- go one's separate ways
- go one's way
- gooney bird
- go on fire
- go on one's merry way
- go on (to) the offensive (or take the offensive)
- goony bird
- goop
- goopiness
- goopy