Uncle Sugar en · PROPN
Etymology
Blend of Uncle Sam + sugar daddy. Popularized by Mike Huckabee, though not original to him.
Meanings
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(Southern-US) A personification of the American welfare state.
[An Obama campaign ad] depicted a woman named Julia who from cradle to grave was dependent on all things "government" and could live her life only with the ever-present and all-guiding hand of Uncle Sugar.
2014, Mike Huckabee, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, page 102:“Uncle Sugar provides well for me. Because of Uncle Sugar I have a good education and the opportunity to retire when I'm thirty-five years old."
2004, Shane Russell, Living Hell, page 25: