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fever swamps

fever swamps is the plural of fever swamp.

Meaning of fever swamp

Noun

fever swamp (plural fever swamps)

  1. An area of stagnant water and hot temperatures that acts as a breeding ground for disease vectors such as mosquitos.
    • Then Christmas Day dawned, and there was Vicksburg lifted two hundred feet above the fever swamps, her court-house shining in the morning sun.1901, Winston Churchill, The Crisis
  2. (derogatory) A group of political extremists or an area that is dominated by them.
    • Only a few years earlier, the neocons had been denouncing them as coming from "the fever swamps", in the words of Decter.2010, Nathan Abrams, Norman Podhoretz and Commentary Magazine, →ISBN
  3. (derogatory) A set of extreme and crazy political positions.
    • The Right's ever-vigilant Slogan Division focus-grouped a winner on immigration: "No amnesty for lawbreakers." No "shamnesty." And that is where the Right made its stand, right in the middle of the Minutemen fever swamps.2008, Arianna Huffington, Right is Wrong, →ISBN, page 236

Questions about fever swamps

What is fever swamps the plural of?
Fever swamps is the plural of fever swamp.

Words near fever swamps in the dictionary

  1. fever grasses
  2. fever lurden
  3. fever pitch
  4. fever powder
  5. fever swamp
  6. fever swamps
  7. fever tea
  8. fever trap
  9. fever traps
  10. fever tree
  11. fever trees

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