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Bleachgate

Bleachgate proper noun: a 2020 controversy where then-president Donald Trump suggested drinking bleach as a way to cure COVID-19.

Proper noun

Bleachgate

  1. A 2020 controversy where then-president Donald Trump suggested drinking bleach as a way to cure COVID-19.
    • What some of the world's most insufferable people are already calling "Bleachgate" is a perfect reductio ad absurdum of the relationship between the president and the media.2020 April 29, Matthew Walther, “Bleachgate is the archetype of a Trump media cycle”, in The Week

Origin of Bleachgate

From bleach + -gate.

Questions about Bleachgate

What does Bleachgate mean?
Bleachgate means a 2020 controversy where then-president Donald Trump suggested drinking bleach as a way to cure COVID-19.
What part of speech is Bleachgate?
Bleachgate is a proper noun.

Words near Bleachgate in the dictionary

  1. bleachery
  2. bleaches
  3. bleachest
  4. bleachfield
  5. bleachfields
  6. Bleachgate
  7. bleachhouse
  8. bleachhouses
  9. bleachier
  10. bleachiest
  11. bleaching

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