SovCit

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A form of sovereign citizen — A member of a loose movement of Americans, Canadians and Australians who consider themselves answerable only to their own particular interpretation of the common law, and not subject to any government statutes or proceedings.

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Meanings

nounSovCit (plural SovCits)

plural SovCits

  1. abbreviationinformalAbbreviation of sovereign citizen.
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    Adverse possession was a legal maneuver straight out of the Sovereign Citizen canon. (If you look it up, you'll come upon many cases, especially in Florida, of SovCits trying to use the tactic to take over unoccupied houses and commercial real estate, particularly in the years after the housing crash of 2008.)

    2019, Anthony McCann, Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff, Bloomsbury, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
sovereign citizen
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APA

SovCit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SovCit

MLA

“SovCit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SovCit. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “SovCit,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SovCit.

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