Etymology

Fingergate

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Today it means: A 2015 controversy around a video, later found to be doctored, allegedly showing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis making an obscene hand gesture to punctuate his comments about the financial relationship of Greece and Germany during a lecture in Croatia in 2013. Full definition →

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