Meanings
plural Bidenisms
- USuncountablegovernmentThe ideology and policies of Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician and the 46th president of the United States.
- UScountableuncountablegovernmentA quip, phrase or aphorism commonly said by Joe Biden (born 1942), American politician and the 46th president of the United States.
BIDENISMS If you have to ask, it's too late. […]
2020, Jill Biden, Joey: The Story of Joe Biden, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 19912 more examples
When talking about policies, he often said the president “gets it,” a condescending Bidenism for “agrees with me.”
2013, Michael Grunwald, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 256Invoking one of the vice president's Bidenisms, "Don't die on a small cross," I proposed that we instead pursue a "Big Bang."
2019, Susan Rice, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 409 - UScolloquialcountabledateduncountablegovernmentAn instance of plagiarism, or the act of plagiarism.
That was Mr. Seidman's line. I don't want to do a Bidenism here.
January 1989, Stanford Parris, Hearings before the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, page 942 more examples
This is an election year, so forgive me if I steal a line from a more innocent time to ask also for help from the rest of you (not to be accused of a Bidenism, it's from JFK's inaugural address) […]
Summer 1988, Cristine Russell, Newsletter of the National Association of Science Writers, p. 14(We have not used quotation marks in this paragraph because that from which it is basically copied is in an unpublished decision of Division 7; we give credit only to avoid any claim of "Bidenism.")
1991, attorneys representing the City of Long Beach, California, brief submitted to the California Court of Appeal (2nd District), page 22
Origin
From Biden + -ism. The plagiarism sense is a reference to the plagiarism scandal in September 1987 that ended Biden's first presidential campaign.
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