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Gippermania
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English
Etymology
From en Gipper mania.
Noun
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en informal rare Enthusiasm for actor and American president Ronald Reagan.
en 1988 The Illustrated London News 276 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Illustrated_London_News/gP8qAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22gippermania%22&dq=%22gippermania%22 102 After eight years of Ronald Reagan and Gippermania, Bush and Dukakis both have their work cut out for them.
en 2000 Lydia Millet George Bush, Dark Prince of Love: A Presidential Romance 17 I saw him as a Reagan hangover, and unlike my fellow citizens, I had never cared much for Ronnie. Maybe I was just in a bad mood from being in prison, or maybe, by dint of being inside, I was immune to the raging Gippermania that hit the country.
en Tina Brown Democrats Warm To 'Fahrenheit 9/11' https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/06/17/democrats-warm-to-fahrenheit-911/e2dcfa0b-23bb-4e6d-9f66-622d1e7bae52/ The Washington Post 17 June 2004 There was only a one-week frenzy window between Gippermania and the pending Clinton memoir, and Weinstein flew right through it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250124003440/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/06/17/democrats-warm-to-fahrenheit-911/e2dcfa0b-23bb-4e6d-9f66-622d1e7bae52/ 24 January 2025
en eponyms
en Fandom Ronald Reagan