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Soviet Canuckistan en · PROPN

Etymology

First attested in a 1993 article in the US anti-Semitic publication The Liberty Bell. Subsequently (and apparently independently) used by American conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan on the October 31, 2002 episode of his MSNBC television show, in reaction to Canadian objection to a US law mandating Arab-Canadian visitors to the US be photographed and fingerprinted.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, humorous, informal) Canada.
    • […] Chelsea Polk and Kellie Matthews for bolstering my knowledge of the native music of Soviet Canuckistan; […] 2005, Elizabeth Bear, Worldwired, Spectra (2005), unnumbered page (acknowledgements)
    • But it's not just the residents of Soviet Canuckistan - a Pat Buchanan dig that many Canadians have embraced - who have soured on the US. 2006, Adbusters, Issues 63-65, unknown page
    • We have been on the verge of decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use up here in Soviet Canuckistan for the past couple of years, but have yet to do so. 2005, Laura Penny, Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, Three Rivers Press, published 2006, →ISBN, pages 118–119:

Relateds

equivalent in Latin America · EUSSR · URSAL

Synonyms

Canuckistan