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Carlinisms

Carlinisms is the plural of Carlinism.

Meaning of Carlinism

Noun

Carlinism (countable and uncountable, plural Carlinisms)

  1. (uncountable) The ideas and beliefs of George Carlin.
    • The white liberal elite and their Millennial serfs are especially prone to the sort of midwittery found in the comedy of George Carlin or on the website Reddit. But Redditors and Carlinism are, admittedly, extreme examples.2022 January 7, Merri, “Brief Genealogy of the Midwit”, in The Pillarist, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2022
  2. (countable) A statement made by George Carlin.
    • Thus encouraged, I researched Carlin. Here are tidbits about this guy interspersed with his Carlinisms, some wonderfully logical, others radically offbeat, but surely all thoughtful and entertaining.2020 July 24, Dennis Simanaitis, “CELEBRATING GEORGE CARLIN”, in Simanaitis Says, archived from the original on 16 May 2022

Questions about Carlinisms

What is Carlinisms the plural of?
Carlinisms is the plural of Carlinism.

Words near Carlinisms in the dictionary

  1. Carlingian
  2. carlings
  3. Carlini
  4. Carlinis
  5. Carlinism
  6. Carlinisms
  7. carlinite
  8. carlins
  9. Carlinville
  10. carlish
  11. Carlisle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Carlinisms (page history and authors); Carlinism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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