gold star family en · NOUN
Meanings
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(US) the immediate family of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action.
And when he came down with a life-threatening case of Covid, he suggested that he might have caught it from Gold Star families he had met with after his positive test — that is, he blamed people he himself had callously endangered.
2021 December 7, Paul Krugman, “Where Have All the Grown-ups Gone?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gold star families | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
gold star father · gold star parent · gold star mother · Gold Star · gold star wife