Brixit

English Proper noun en Brexit. c. 2011–2015 en “Bagehot” [pseudonym] A Brixit looms http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2012/06/britain-and-eu-0 https://web.archive.org/web/20120621155731/https://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2012/06/britain-and-eu-0 21 June 2012 w:The Economist 21 June 2012 Yet the chances of Britain leaving the EU in the next few years are higher than they have ever been. A Brixit looms for several reasons. en Iain Murray Bring on the ‘Brixit’: EU withdrawal would bring benefits for both Britain and the US http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2163244/Bring-Brixit-EU-withdrawal-bring-benefits-Britain-US.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160622141810/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2163244/Bring-Brixit-EU-withdrawal-bring-benefits-Britain-US.html 21 June 2016 w:Daily Mail 22 June 2012 The reason for the increasing likelihood of what some are terming a 'Brixit' (short for British exit, like Grexit for Greek exit) is quite simple. en Heinrich Best; John Higley Introduction Heinrich Best; John Higley Political Elites in the Transatlantic Crisis https://books.google.com/books?id=JrU5AwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT17&dq=%22Brixit%22&pg=PT17#v=onepage&q=%22Brixit%22&f=false Basingstoke, Hampshire w:Palgrave Macmillan 2014 978-1-137-34574-5 Moreover, the upstart UK Independence Party (UKIP), which urged a 'Brixit,' seemed poised to attract significant numbers of Conservative and Labour voters. en Alan V. Deardorff Terms of Trade: Glossary of International Economics 2nd Singapore w:World Scientific 2014 40 https://books.google.com/books?id=dKG6CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA40&dq=%22Brixit%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q=%22Brixit%22&f=false 978-981-451858-1 Brixit: Term used in the British press starting in June 2012 for the possible exit of Britain from the European Union. The term was devised as analogous to the term grexit. Usage notes By the time of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum UK's EU membership referendum in 2016 the form en Brixit had more or less completely fallen out of use in favour of en Brexit; which latter was subsequently adopted as the official term by the UK government.