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boll weevil definition

☆ boll weevil

  1. a small, grayish weevil (Anthonomus grandis) with a long snout, whose larvae, when hatched in the immature bolls of cotton plants, destroy the bolls
  2. Slang a conservative Democratic politician from a state of the southern U.S.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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