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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.

See boll weevil in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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