card-carrying
card-carrying
Definition
card·-carrying (-kar′ē iŋ)
adjective
- owning a membership card in a specified organization
- Informal thorough, genuine, etc. a card-carrying pacifist
card-carrying
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- member: I am now a card-carrying member of the CEP.
- communist: This time he did not describe them as " card-carrying communists " because this had been shown to be untrue.
- humanist: Gene Roddenberry, the card-carrying humanist who founded Star Trek had no doubt what he was doing: he was dethroning God.
- green: I know people who were card-carrying Greens, who didn't vote Green in the General Election.
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