Welcome to another outrageous episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Stretch your mind and help keep those synapses in shape with the Word of the Week. In keeping with the election year theme, here's another piece of political terminology for you to ponder:
Frontrunneritis: (noun) The condition of being a leading candidate , especially the tendency to coast or to be under increased scrutiny by the press. -- "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang", Grant Barrett, ed., Oxford University Press, 2004.
Example: Many voters have been wondering if Obama will start showing signs of frontrunneritis and slack off in his campaigning now that he has gotten the nod from the Democratic Party.
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