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enviro

noun

Etymology

Clipping of environmentalist.

Definitions

  1. An ecofreak.

    • “The irony,” Mr. Hawkins wrote, “is that to make his case that enviros, ‘establishment’ scientists and the media are abusing the scientific method, he tramples it himself.”
    • In the late 1980s and early 1990s, enviros cooked up a scheme to prevent nearly any tree from being cut down in the Pacific Northwest.

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