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Ceausescu moment

Ceausescu moment is the alternative form of Ceaușescu moment.

Meaning of Ceaușescu moment

Noun

Ceaușescu moment (plural Ceaușescu moments)

  1. A moment when a public figure is booed in public; (by extension) a moment when a person or regime previously considered unassailable suddenly looks vulnerable; the outbreak of a revolution.
    • One way or another, Mugabe will go and it will be sooner rather than later. It is a question for him: does he want to go like Ian Smith and continue to live in Harare or does he want a Ceausescu moment?2003 July 15, Boris Johnson Zimbabwe Hansard Vol. 409 Part 429 col. 6WH

Forms of Ceausescu moment

pluralCeausescu moments

Questions about Ceausescu moment

What is Ceausescu moment the alternative form of?
Ceausescu moment is the alternative form of Ceaușescu moment.

Words near Ceausescu moment in the dictionary

  1. ceasing
  2. ceasing and desisting
  3. ceasings
  4. Ceatalchioi
  5. Ceausescu
  6. Ceausescu moment
  7. Ceausescu moments
  8. Ceaușescu
  9. Ceaușescu moment
  10. Ceaușescu moments
  11. Ceaușescuism

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