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  • noun One who is extremely patriotic.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ patriot

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Examples

  • The though of me being some sort of America superpatriot is truly hilarious.

    Matthew Yglesias » Teaching Reading Right 2009

  • Maybe that's why the Watchmen wizards have cooked up a mobile game starring the Comedian, a shockingly unfunny US superpatriot and ultracynic modeled in part on G. Gordon Liddy: Playing as this "hero," you can grease waves of Vietcong with gleeful Rambosity.

    Scott Brown on Dark Superheroes and Childish Action Figures 2009

  • I wasn't a superpatriot on that date or on any other and neither were a fair number of people I know.

    Big News Orgs Help Bush Whitewash History Of Iraq War 2009

  • Maybe that's why the Watchmen wizards have cooked up a mobile game starring the Comedian, a shockingly unfunny US superpatriot and ultracynic modeled in part on G. Gordon Liddy: Playing as this "hero," you can grease waves of Vietcong with gleeful Rambosity.

    Scott Brown on Dark Superheroes and Childish Action Figures 2009

  • The elder George Bush, once a reasonable, temperamentally conservative man, took on the aspect of a superpatriot, visiting a flag factory and repeatedly denouncing the hapless Michael Dukakis as "out of the mainstream."

    John McQuaid: How the Mainstream Media Got Off-Track 2008

  • For example, Theodore Roosevelt -- no greater superpatriot -- said in 1918 during the First World War: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

    Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: Patriotism and Dissent 2008

  • “Now, this indefatigable and devoted intermediary, so active and so dangerous, you all know him, his name is on all lips,” exclaimed Deputy Paul Deroulede, self-appointed superpatriot and fanatic Boulangist.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • “Now, this indefatigable and devoted intermediary, so active and so dangerous, you all know him, his name is on all lips,” exclaimed Deputy Paul Deroulede, self-appointed superpatriot and fanatic Boulangist.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Only the superpatriot believed that this arrangement could continue indefinitely.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • Marvel Comics '"Captain America" -- about a superpatriot who fought Nazis in World War II and chased flag burners during the Vietnam War -- is one of the longest-running, best-loved comics in American history.

    Politics Daily 2010

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