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noun
A political scandal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland
Topics: government, politics
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History
An acronym for grotesque, unprecedented, bizarre, unbelievable, all words used by Taoiseach Charles Haughey to describe the discovery of a murderer as a guest in the house of Patrick Connolly, Attorney General of Ireland in 1982.
