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-slide

-slide suffix: an overwhelming or surprising victory by the group or individual specified.

Suffix

-slide

  1. (Australia, informal) An overwhelming or surprising victory by the group or individual specified.
    • It was a Greenslide. This is the best result for the Greens in our history.2022 May 22, Adam Bandt, SBS News
    • Fast-forward to 2022, and that particular pattern repeated in Brisbane where the Greens picked up three federal seats – two from the Liberal National Party and one from Labor. It could also be seen in the tealslide against the Liberals in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.2022 November 19, George Megalogenis, “Why the nation’s politicians will be watching the vote in Victoria”, in Sydney Morning Herald

Origin of -slide

Back-formation from landslide.

Questions about -slide

What does -slide mean?
-slide means an overwhelming or surprising victory by the group or individual specified.
What part of speech is -slide?
-slide is a suffix.

Words near -slide in the dictionary

  1. -sies
  2. -sion
  3. -sis
  4. -ski
  5. -sky
  6. -slide
  7. -slop
  8. -soc
  9. -soft
  10. -sol
  11. -some

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