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noun

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a politician's final campaign.

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any final attempt, competition, performance, success, or the like: his last hurrah as a college football star.

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Origin:
from The Last Hurrah, a novel (1956) by U.S. author Edwin O'Connor (1918–68)

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last hurrah
noun
a final performance or effort (especially before retirement) [syn: swan song]

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"Well, Adam, it's my guess that the old-fashioned political campaign in a few years will be as extinct as the dodo. It'll be all TV and radio, it'll all be streamlined and nice and easy. Oh mind you, I use the TV and the radio sometimes, but I also get out into the wards. I speak in arenas, armories, street corners—anywhere I can gather a crowd. I even kiss babies. But that's the way I've always done it, and I must say it's usually paid off. But there's no use kidding myself about it. It's on its way out, just as I am. Yes, yes, this is my last campaign, Adam, the last hurrah."

-Frank S. Nugent

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