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Archie Bunker
noun
- a poorly educated blue-collar worker, holding ultraconservative, racist, and male-chauvinist opinions.
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Notes
The creators of “All in the Family” intended Archie Bunker to be a parody of closed-mindedness in Americans. To their surprise, many people in the United States adopted Bunker as their hero.
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Other Words From
- Archie Bunker·ism [buhng, -k, uh, -riz-, uh, m], noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Archie Bunker1
From a character in the American television series “All in the Family” which premiered in 1971
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Example Sentences
Norman Lear had a crisis while filming All in the Family about people genuinely taking Archie Bunker as a role model.
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Koch backed the death penalty, wasn't above a little Archie Bunker-ish lingua franca to get his point across.
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But in simpler terms this is Darth Vader against Archie Bunker.
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