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muckrake

noun

Etymology

From muck + rake.

  1. derived from *rakō✻
  2. derived from rák — “strip; stripe; furrow; small mountain ravine”
  3. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “to straighten, right oneself”
  4. derived from *rakō✻ — “path, track; course, direction; an unfolding, unwinding; account, narrative; argument, reasoning”
  5. inherited from racu — “bed of a stream; path; account, narrative; explanation; argument, reasoning; reason”
  6. inherited from rake
  7. compounded as muckrake — “muck + rake”

Definitions

  1. A rake for scraping up dung.

  2. To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative…

    To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative journalism.

    • His book, published this month, combines the muckraking approach of Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” with the wry travelogue approach of a Michael Moore movie.

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