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POTUS

POTUS

1 6.4
The official social media account of the President of the United States or a post from it
  • noun
  • /ˈpoʊtəs/
  • Texting
translation icon : cuenta oficial del presidente de los Estados Unidos (en redes sociales)
  • The POTUS shared an important message about health care on Twitter.

Examples

  • The POTUS just tweeted three words and a picture that may end up with over a million retweets.

    Blog text (17)

  • It's a tweet from Biden the app POTUS account as follows.

  • It's a tweet from Biden, the app POTUS account as follows.

  • "Tell those kids in your class not to give up on POTUS," he wrote, using the popular acronym for president of the United States.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Yesterday, the POTUS posted a video addressing climate change on social media.

  • Many people commented on the latest POTUS tweet regarding national security.

Synonyms

post
vsPOTUS
  • Texting
∞ 3.3

A message, photo, or comment shared on social media

is specific to the official presidential social account rather than general social content
tweet
vsPOTUS
  • Texting
225 2.6

A short message posted on Twitter

is from the official presidential social account rather than any ordinary Twitter user

Surface Forms

POTUS singular
POTUSes plural

Morphology

POTUS = President + the + United States (semi-transparent) = P + O + T + U + S

The acronym abbreviates the title, but its extension to mean the official social-media account or a post is a metonymic and platform-specific extension that may not be obvious to all learners. [Postprocessing: moved 'of' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

POTUS is the simple acronym from the first letters of President of the United States, and on social media it became the official account name for the president. So a post or message from that official account is often called a POTUS post.