💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Billygate"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| hairgatenoun | (informal) A 1993 controversy around allegations that Bill Clinton's haircut aboard Air Force One delayed air traffic. |
| rathergatenoun | The Killian documents controversy, a 2004 controversy involving apparently forged documents critical of George W. Bush's military service. |
| kazakhgatenoun | (informal) A scandal of the 2000s involving American businessman James Giffen, who was accused of bribing high-level Kazakhstani officials to secure oil contracts for Western companies in the 1990s. |
| travelgatenoun | (informal, US politics) The White House travel office controversy of 1993. |
| gategatenoun | (UK, informal) Synonym of Plebgate. |
| iraqgatenoun | (informal) A 2003 Finnish scandal involving the leaking of secret documents to politician Anneli Jäätteenmäki in connection with the war in Iraq. |
| emailgatenoun | (informal, US politics) A 2015 controversy around Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account and server, in violation of federal security and transparency guidelines. |
| grannygatenoun | (informal, sports) Any of several different sporting scandals, typically regarding eligibility of players for national teams based on their family histories. |
| sexgatenoun | (chiefly US) Any sex-related public scandal, especially the Monica Lewinsky scandal. |
| hackgatenoun | (UK, slang) The News International phone hacking scandal. |
| bigotgatenoun | (informal, UK politics) A 2010 controversy that arose when British prime minister Gordon Brown was accidentally recorded calling a party supporter a bigot. |
| garglegatenoun | (informal) A 2010 controversy around a radio interview given by Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Brian Cowen, in which many commentators said he appeared to be suffering from a hangover. |
| gitmonoun | (informal, military) Guantanamo Bay, the US naval base at the eponymous location, on the island of Cuba. |
| watergatenoun | An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, in 1972) that eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon. |
| gloriagatenoun | (Philippine politics, neologism, colloquial) A 2005 electoral scandal in the Philippines involving leaked telephone conversations between former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and a commissioner of the Commission on Elections, the two allegedly conspiring to rig the results of the presidential election. |
| beergatenoun | (UK politics, neologism) The political controversy in response to an alleged breach of COVID-19 pandemic legal restrictions at a gathering in a Labour Party office in Durham, England, on 30 April 2021. |
| gorbasmnoun | (slang, derogatory) The affection shown by US liberals for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| lichgatenoun | Alternative spelling of lych-gate. [A churchyard gateway with a roof, under which a corpse was laid during a funeral to await the arrival of the clergyman.] |
| grangegatenoun | (informal, Australian politics) A 2014 scandal over Australian politician Barry O'Farrell's failure to declare a gift of a $3,000 bottle of Grange Hermitage wine from a business executive. |
| troopergatenoun | A 1994 controversy around allegations by two Arkansas state troopers that they arranged sexual liaisons for then-governor Bill Clinton. |
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