G-word en · NOUN
Meanings
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(euphemistic) The word God.
[...] are not afraid to use the "G word." The divine is their "distinctive product," their "unique business proposition." Still, it is a risky business. The experience of the divine is anything but conformist, it bends to no formal business plan, and it can be ...
2007, Michael L. Klassen, Bad Religion: The Psychology of Religious Misbehavior, →ISBN, page 56:G-word: The Constitution gives us the right to use the G-word and religious freedom. The Declaration of Independence has the G-word in it. Our Pledge of Allegiance has the G-word, and our money has the G-word.
2010, Harry Webster, Venting, Somebody Had to Say It, →ISBN, page 110:
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(alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of g-word (“any other word beginning with g”).
alt of g-word
When the Swedish Parliament and the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs used the 'G' word, Prime Minister Erdoğan responded by threatening to deport 100,000 Armenian guest workers[.]
2014, Geoffrey Robertson, An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?, →ISBN:
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