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hoplophobic en · ADJ

Etymology

First attested in 1999: hoplophobia + -ic or hoplophobe + -ic.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, rare) Having an irrational fear of guns.
   • Within days Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association — America’s largest gun-control outfit — showed up on Katie Couric’s smugly hoplophobic NBC “Today” show, “debating” all-guns-to-the-state Congressman Charles Schumer on a typically heads-they-win-tales-we-lose question: whether it is federal or only local authorities who should “mandate” gun locks. 1999, Vin Suprynowicz, Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993–1998, Mountain Media, →ISBN, page 375, →ISBN:

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