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Margaritagate

Margaritagate proper noun: a 2025 controversy where the Salvadoran government provided Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Chris Van Hollen with margaritas and claimed that they consumed them.

Proper noun

Margaritagate

  1. A 2025 controversy where the Salvadoran government provided Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Chris Van Hollen with margaritas and claimed that they consumed them.
    • Van Hollen referred to the stagecraft with a term that had ricocheted around social media for much of the day: “Margaritagate.”2025 April 18, Meg Kinnard, “US senator’s El Salvador trip to see deportee Abrego Garcia dubbed ‘margaritagate’, a presidential deception he said”, in Stuff

Origin of Margaritagate

From margarita + -gate. Coined by American politician Chris Van Hollen.

Questions about Margaritagate

What does Margaritagate mean?
Margaritagate means a 2025 controversy where the Salvadoran government provided Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Chris Van Hollen with margaritas and claimed that they consumed them.
What part of speech is Margaritagate?
Margaritagate is a proper noun.

Words near Margaritagate in the dictionary

  1. margariney
  2. margarining
  3. margarins
  4. margarita
  5. margaritaceous
  6. Margaritagate
  7. margaritas
  8. margaritasite
  9. margarite
  10. margarites
  11. margaritic

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