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USSA en · PROPN

Etymology

With regard to a fictional or supposed socialist or Communist United States, a blend of USA + USSR.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of United States Sports Academy.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of United States Ski and Snowboard Association.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of United States Student Association.
  4. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, derogatory, informal, initialism, usually) Initialism of Union of Soviet States of America, Union of Socialist States of America, United Soviet States of America, or United Socialist States of America, all intending a Communist alternative history form of the USA, a supposed socialist conspiracy controlling the USA, or some future socialist or Communist form of the USA.
    • Could it happen here? Could the USA become the USSA? 2022 December 28, Richard Lee Schreadley, “Opinion: Dems Pushing for the United Socialist States of America”, in The Post and Courier:
    • The United States no longer exists. It is now the Union of Soviet States of America! Long live the U.S.S.A.!! 1961 September 28, Reed Crandall & al., "This Godless Communism", Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact, Vol. 17, No. 2, p. 3
    • The USA or the USSA? The United States of America or the Union of Socialist States of America? That is the question. 2012, Michael Savage & al., Trickle Down Tyranny..., back cover
    • One board game from the early 1930s was Monopoly's diametrical opposite... The players' goal is to... turn the U.S.A. into the U.S.S.A.—the United Soviet States of America. 2023 February 17, Frank Jacobs, “How to Turn America into Communist Russia: The Board Game”, in Big Think: Strange Maps:
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism) Initialism of United Socialist States of America, a micronation proclaimed within the United States 2018–2019.

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