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Daily Heil en · PROPN

Etymology

Referring to the Nazi slogan "heil Hitler". Originated from the newspaper's support of fascism in the early 1930s.

Meanings

1. (UK, derogatory, slang) The Daily Mail newspaper.
   • Daily Heil at it again sharing false stats to pretend racism and police brutality don’t exist[.] 2022 December 14, Olivia Brown, Catherine Lowery, Laura G. E. Smith, anonymous quotee, “How opposing ideological groups use online interactions to justify and mobilise collective action”, in European Journal of Social Psychology, volume 52, number 7, John Wiley & Sons, →DOI, →ISSN, Appendix A, page 1106:
   • The Tory party appeared not to be trying to make the political capital out of it that the Daily Heil appeared to be trying to make. 2002 December 6, MissJuggs, “Re: How to convert £3K into £24K ?”, in uk.local.london.info (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2026:
   • They even made the mistaken assumption, mainly from the title, that the song had some kind of lesbian message. As Heike put it: 'You can't expect the subliterate cockwombles on the Daily Heil showbiz and gossip desks to have read Orwell.' 2015, Chris Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking:

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Synonyms

Daily Fail