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boll weevil

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boll weevil

 
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–noun
1. a snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis, that attacks the bolls of cotton.
2. Informal. (esp. in the U.S. Congress) a Southern Democrat with conservative views who often votes with the Republicans as part of a Southern or conservative power bloc.
Origin:
1890–95, Americanism
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boll weevil  
n.  

  1. A small, grayish, long-snouted beetle (Anthonomus grandis) of Mexico and the southern United States, having adults that puncture cotton buds and larvae that hatch in and damage cotton bolls.

  2. Informal A conservative white Southern Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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