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card-carrying

[ kahrd-kar-ee-ing ]

adjective

  1. admittedly belonging to a group or party:

    a card-carrying Communist.

  2. Often Facetious. dedicated to an ideal, profession, or interest:

    a card-carrying humanist.



card-carrying

adjective

  1. being an official member of a specified organization

    a card-carrying Communist

    a card-carrying union member

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of card-carrying1

First recorded in 1945–50
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His reason for hope is clear, though: The man who would pardon him is a card-carrying member of that group.

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Bill Clinton and Al Gore, two Southern white men with card-carrying membership in the centrist Democratic Leadership Council ended up finding it, largely by offering baby boomer identity cred in combination with pretty conservative ideology.

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But for all his talk, it is clear that Trump is no card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Noah Lyles, men’s 100 and 200 meters — Never camera shy, the Yu-Gi-Oh! card-carrying Lyles is the defending world champion in the men’s 100 and 200 meters.

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Viola was born in Queens, N.Y., on Jan. 25, 1951, making him a card-carrying member of the first generation in global history to grow up bathed in the queer blue light of TV.

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