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Trumpquake

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Etymology

From Trump + quake, modeled after earthquake.

  1. inherited from *kwakōną✻ — “to shake, quiver, tremble”
  2. inherited from cwacian — “to quake, tremble, chatter”
  3. inherited from quaken
  4. formed as trumpquake — “Trump + quake”

Definitions

  1. Donald Trump's unexpected 2016 presidential election win.

    • And that, it seems, was what last night’s Trumpquake was about, a revolt against the experts, against the elites, against the out-of-touch inside-the-Beltway insiders who enforced the longstanding norms that Trump so flagrantly violated.

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