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Skutniks

Skutniks is the plural of Skutnik.

Meaning of Skutnik

Noun

Skutnik (plural Skutniks)

  1. (US, jargon) A guest at the State of the Union address or a similar political event.
    • When CNN’s Jeff Greenfield assured the crowd, “I haven't planted a skutnik here,” I stopped him: I had heard of a sputnik, the Russian word for the first Soviet satellite, but what was a skutnik? […] In 1995, the columnist William F. Buckley was one of the first to use the name as an eponym...2001 July 8, William Safire, “On Language”, in New York Times Magazine, The Way We Live Now, page 15
    Synonyms:
    Lenny Skutnik

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Questions about Skutniks

What is Skutniks the plural of?
Skutniks is the plural of Skutnik.

Words near Skutniks in the dictionary

  1. skutch
  2. skutches
  3. skute
  4. skutes
  5. Skutnik
  6. Skutniks
  7. Skutt
  8. skutterudite
  9. skutterudites
  10. skuttle
  11. skuttled

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