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Gorby-mania

Gorby-mania is the alternative form of Gorbymania.

Meaning of Gorbymania

Noun

Gorbymania (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Enthusiasm for Mikhail Gorbachev, USSR head of state from 1985 to 1991, who introduced the liberalizing reforms of glasnost and perestroika.
    • While in Bonn, at the time of Gorbymania, I fell in with part of the Russian entourage.1992, Claude E Barfield, Mark Perlman, Industry, Services, and Agriculture: The United States Faces a United Europe

Questions about Gorby-mania

What is Gorby-mania the alternative form of?
Gorby-mania is the alternative form of Gorbymania.

Words near Gorby-mania in the dictionary

  1. gorblimey
  2. gorblimy
  3. gorbuson
  4. gorbusons
  5. Gorby
  6. Gorby-mania
  7. Gorbymania
  8. Gorbys
  9. Gorbănești
  10. Gorce Mountains
  11. gorceixite

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