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hoplophobic

hoplophobic adjective: having an irrational fear of guns.

Adjective

hoplophobic (comparative more hoplophobic, superlative most hoplophobic)

  1. (derogatory, rare) Having an irrational fear of guns.
    • Within days Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association — America’s largest gun-control outfit — showed up on Katie Couric’s smugly hoplophobic NBC “Today” show, “debating” all-guns-to-the-state Congressman Charles Schumer on a typically heads-they-win-tales-we-lose question: whether it is...1999, Vin Suprynowicz, Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993–1998, Mountain Media, →ISBN, page 375, →ISBN

Forms of hoplophobic

comparativemore hoplophobic
superlativemost hoplophobic

Origin of hoplophobic

First attested in 1999: hoplophobia + -ic or hoplophobe + -ic.

Questions about hoplophobic

What does hoplophobic mean?
Hoplophobic means having an irrational fear of guns.
What part of speech is hoplophobic?
Hoplophobic is an adjective.

Words near hoplophobic in the dictionary

  1. hoplophiliacs
  2. hoplophilic
  3. hoplophobe
  4. hoplophobes
  5. hoplophobia
  6. hoplophobic
  7. hoplopleurid
  8. hoplopleurids
  9. hoplos
  10. Hopman
  11. Hopmans

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