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card-carrying Definition

card·-carrying (-kar′ē iŋ)

adjective

  1. owning a membership card in a specified organization
  2. 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.