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Quailgate

Quailgate proper noun: the 2006 controversy over the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.

Proper noun

Quailgate

  1. (US, informal) The 2006 controversy over the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.
    • The squall over Mr Cheney's behaviour in Quailgate will probably die down, providing Mr Whittington survives. But the debate over hunting will go on growing.2006, The Economist, volume 378, page 34

Origin of Quailgate

From quail + -gate.

Questions about Quailgate

What does Quailgate mean?
Quailgate means the 2006 controversy over the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.
What part of speech is Quailgate?
Quailgate is a proper noun.

Words near Quailgate in the dictionary

  1. quailery
  2. quailest
  3. quaileth
  4. quailfinch
  5. quailfinches
  6. Quailgate
  7. quailies
  8. quailing
  9. quailingly
  10. quailings
  11. quailish

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