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pigopolist

pigopolist noun: a member of a pigopoly.

Noun

pigopolist (plural pigopolists)

  1. A member of a pigopoly.
    • And you know who is responsible for that? The Pigopolists of the Football League and the FA. […] ¶ These are the fat overpaid bastards who want to stop you enjoying sports unless you pay an arm, a leg and a small but vital part of your genitalia.2002 May 31, Philip Crookes, "Re: New Combined DAB/Satellite Receiver", in alt.radio.digital and other newsgroups, Usenet
    • By contrast, super-peers tend to take a higher-profile, often political position, sometimes claiming that the record companies are profiteers or “pigopolists”; that music (or other content) “wants to be free”; or that they believe in the redistribution of resources (for example, their college’s or...2004, Guy Hart-Davis, How to Do Everything with iLife ’04, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 126

Examples of pigopolist in a sentence

  • The pigopolist record companies don’t like it because it cuts them out of the loop.2006 March 28, “Alice”, comment in the blog Alex Moskalyuk Online, quoted in Marjorie D. Kibby, “‘The Legal Bit’s in Russian’: Making Sense...
  • The distribution is the same, it takes in sales charts and radio playlists and is agreed by the membership pigopolists.2009 July 25, victor, “Re: Cafe owners refuse to pay for the right to use music instore”, in nz.general (Usenet):

Forms of pigopolist

pluralpigopolists

Origin of pigopolist

From pigopoly + -ist.

Questions about pigopolist

What does pigopolist mean?
Pigopolist means a member of a pigopoly.
How do you use pigopolist in a sentence?
The pigopolist record companies don’t like it because it cuts them out of the loop.
What part of speech is pigopolist?
Pigopolist is a noun.
What is the plural of pigopolist?
The plural of pigopolist is pigopolists.

Words near pigopolist in the dictionary

  1. pignose turtles
  2. pignus amoris
  3. pignut
  4. pignuts
  5. pigopolies
  6. pigopolist
  7. pigopolists
  8. pigopoly
  9. Pigot
  10. pigotite
  11. Pigots

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