Gipperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Reagan's role as George "The Gipper" Gipp (1895-1920) in the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American, which lead to him acquiring the nickname "the Gipper," later popularized by the media during his presidency.

固有名詞

the Gipper

1. A nickname for American actor and politician Ronald Reagan.
   • 1992, Michael Weiler & W. Barnett Pearce, Reagan and Public Discourse in America, page 137:

     It took no more than a jaunty one-liner in the second presidential debate—"I refuse to hold my opponent's youth against him"—for large numbers of people to be reassured that if the Gipper had ever been out of it, he was now back.

   • 1999, Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, page 126:

     Over the eight years of the Reagan presidency, the Gipper asked Congress for $16.1 billion more in spending than it passed into law.

   • 2014, Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America, unnumbered page:

     […] most of the Ford vote from 1976, which Bush had hoped to claim, went heavily for the Gipper.

派生語

• Gipperism
• Gipperite
• Gippermania

参考

• Ronald Reagan on Wikipedia.