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- noun colloquial The
government .
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Examples
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The ebil gubmint is laying traps for Members of Congress!
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The ebil gubmint is trying to separate the public from their doctor.
Think Progress » Kansas lawmaker compares rape to auto theft. 2010
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It just makes sense that they will want the biggest frickin gubmint possible – more to loot that way.
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The ebil gubmint is laying traps for Members of Congress!
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She, Mr. Pete King, Fox News, etc. were just frothing at the mouth talking about, "Obama will know your address to come take your guns away, big brother gubmint is looking at you, and other assorted fearmongering nonsense."
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The whole "gubmint is takin away ma guns" argument is just not supported by the facts and the laws being enacted.
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Of course, that fact doesn’t work for wingnuts, so they continue to bawl that the gubmint is inefficient, contrary to fact and ignoring all of the past work that’s been done to improve its efficiency. jwest says:
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That means the gubmint is gonna raise my taxes which I don’t pay none of anyway but they might take my truck.
Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’ 2010
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That means the gubmint is gonna raise my taxes which I don’t pay none of anyway but they might take my truck.
Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’ 2010
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Quite unfortunately, the necessary adjustments are not to be had through any kind of gubmint, much less the Leviathan we have now on the federal level.
Liberal Fascism - Chapter 4 - Warrior’s blog - RedState 2009
oroboros commented on the word gubmint
GUBMINT - (n.) - A bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert."
April 8, 2008
trivet commented on the word gubmint
I thought it was gummit.
April 8, 2008
asativum commented on the word gubmint
Or even gummint. Clearly hickbonics spelling needs to be reformed.
April 9, 2008