GOP
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- noun
- /dʒi oʊ pi/
- Literature
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Partido Republicano (EE. UU.)
- The GOP has been known as the Grand Old Party, representing one of the two main political factions in the US.
- the GOP-controlled House
- GOP candidates
- GOP members
We said the GOP made a joke that the GOP governs like a Roomba.
- We said the GOP made a joke that the GOP governs like a Roomba.
- It's debate day in America, the first GOP debate tonight.
- So I would send things to the GOP to post in both Lejeune and Craven counties.
- Trump retains strong support among rank and file GOP voters.
- And it's become more of a GOP litmus test issue.
- So Kitten Hill pals around with this couple and they are Dynamos in the Florida GOP.
- Why would the GOP move away from Trump's ideas that got them elected?
- Ladies and gentlemen, the GOP, I am not Jim Jordan.
- For their part, for their part, the GOP knows.
- Without doubt, as this is going on, what is going, what is the GOP doing?
Examples
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But loyalty to Trump is a defining principle of the GOP right now.
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That's the only promise the GOP can confidently make right now.
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The student newspaper also reported that the GOP was in full support of the movement to change to the new design.
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The problem is that the GOP is on the wrong side of the moral right.
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It's debate day in America, the first GOP debate tonight.
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The historical precedents and the leading political science models all agree that the GOP losses should have been much greater.
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You're an author, entrepreneur, a GOP presidential candidate speaking hard truths.
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Still, the GOP long has enjoyed oversized majorities in both the legislature and the congressional delegation.
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Christine O'Donnell is not the only GOP politician who denies separation of church and state.
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But the ideological and demographic composition of the GOP began to shift dramatically in the 1970s and '80s.
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Synonyms
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A major political party in the United States that supports conservative policies
An insulting name for the Republican Party in the United States
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word GOP is short for Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party in the United States. The name began in the 1800s as a respectful way to call the party, so today GOP is the common short name you hear in the news and in politics to mean the Republican Party.