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Freeper community

Freeper community

9.8
A group of conservative people who post on the Free Republic website
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : comunidad Freeper
  • Discussions within the Freeper community often focus on conservative politics and current events.

Examples

  • The Freeper community organized an online campaign to support their chosen candidate.

  • She joined the Freeper community to connect with like-minded individuals online.

  • The Freeper community is known for its strong conservative views.

  • Many members of the Freeper community actively discuss politics.

  • The Freeper community organized an online campaign to support their chosen candidate.

  • Discussions within the Freeper community often focus on conservative politics and current events.

  • Many members of the Freeper community actively discuss politics.

Surface Forms

Freeper community singular
Freeper communities plural

Morphology

Freeper + community

Although 'community' is transparent, the constituent 'Freeper' is a culture-specific label/proper name (derived from the Free Republic site) with no lexical meaning a B1 learner would know. Because the critical part of the phrase is an idiosyncratic group label whose referent and connotations are unpredictable from the word parts, the overall meaning cannot be derived from the constituents.

Etymology

Freeper community comes from the website name Free Republic; people who used the site were called 'Freepers', so the phrase means the online group of those users. That's why it refers to a group of users who share 'conservative' views on the site.