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Gipperite
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English
Etymology
From en Gipper ite.
Noun
en rare A supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), and/or policies that he endorsed.
en 1994 Samuel T. Francis Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism 199 When Kevin Phillips's The Politics of Rich and Poor hit the bestseller list last summer, the Gipperites began to squeal like a worn-out fan belt in a used Toyota.
en 2007 Brian Doherty Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement 452–453 Even the most antigovernment of Gipperites weren't ready to turn their back on the war on drugs, as Cato urged, but program cutting, bashing, these sorts of things were right in the main.
2007, Etta Hulme, political cartoon published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2007:
[Elephant reading a bedtime story titled Prez Race '08 to its child]: Then the Gipperites discovered there was no such thing as a Bushie. It had all been just a bad dream.
Synonyms
en Reaganite
en Reaganaut
en eponyms
en Conservatism Ronald Reagan