-slide
Suffix
An overwhelming or surprising victory by the group or individual specified.
Usage- Australia
- Informal
- morpheme
- Examples
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It was a Greenslide. This is the best result for the Greens in our history.
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Fast-forward to 2022, and that particular pattern repeated in Brisbane where the Greens picked up three federal seats – two from the Liberal National Party and one from Labor. It could also be seen in the tealslide against the Liberals in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
I was elected in the Ruddslide of 2007, and by the time the next election comes around, I will have served for 17 years.
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She has been a teenage Laborista, an early leader, and won the unlikely third place in the 2022 West Australian Laborslide.