Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A politician.
Wiktionary
- n. A politician.
Examples
“Cao the pol is still a work in progress, he acknowledges.”
The Washington Post: Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans
“If the indicted pol is convicted, the campaign funds should be seized and turned over to the state's Clean Election program.”
“It just seems wierd to say in one breath that a pol is playing to his racist base, and in the next to predict his demise for doing so.”
Waldo Jaquith - Keith Drake suggests that slaves wear 13 pieces of flair.
“Past, reliance on instinct seems to be a round-about way to support traditionalist and populist ideals in politics.”
“In fact, getting involved in politics in China is a horrible career move if you ultimately aspire to, um, be involved in politics in China: It’s too easy to make a misstep and remove yourself from the running completely.”
“Later we learn that none of the facts surrounding the woman’s death as related by the emotional pol is accurate.”
“A poll is a pol is a poll,,, think I will just wait on the vote.”
“They also recall the pol who "want (ed) to be buried in Chicago (when he died) so (he could) stay active in politics.”
“Australia has expanded its network of so-called pol-mil (political/military) talks and regional security dialogues to include now ten regional countries.”
“In NH you can see if a pol is the real deal - authentic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pol’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Headlinese
nix, cager, lady, solon, gridders, thinclads, confab, straphanger, pol, guv, romp, probe and 6 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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Consider the Lobster
By David Foster Wallace
percussive, discursive, lugubrious, docent, assiduously, berm, wag, bonmot, imbroglio, telegraph, fissile, rube and 220 more...
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A little of the old Ultra-Violence
Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity made flesh- downright horrorshow selections of vocabulary from Nadsat, the Russian-influenced slang of the raping and face-stomping delinquents of Burgess's A Clockwork ...
appypolly loggy, baboochka, baddiwad, banda, bezoomy, bitva, bog, bolnoy, bolshy, bratchny, bratty, britva and 186 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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Ironweed
Words gathered while reading Ironweed by William Kennedy.
asteraceae, brogan, gravid, gandy, advent, slithy, dipso, flinty, suspire, henna, heller, nutsy and 90 more...
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Words and phrases from Dick's novel
phone-grid transe..., pol, nat, six, Callisto cuddle s..., gelatinlike, quibble, hot-compart, crampedly, micromag, schmalch, blep and 48 more...
Tweets
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yarb He knew that at one time she had been illegally married to a student commune leader, and that for one year she had lived in the rabbit warrens of Columbia University, along with all the smelly, bearded students kept subsurface lifelong by the pols and the nats. The police and the national guard, who ringed every campus, keeping the students from creeping across to society like so many black rats swarming out of a leaky ship.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Mar 24, 2012
oroboros Lop in reverse. Nov 2, 2007