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boll weevil
noun
- a snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis, that attacks the bolls of cotton.
- Informal. (especially in the U.S. Congress) a Southern Democrat with conservative views who often votes with the Republicans as part of a Southern or conservative power bloc.
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Origin of boll weevil1
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Example Sentences
So did the cotton growers from the South who were chased off their plantations by the boll weevil.
And cotton crops would often fail when pests like the boll weevil tore through the fields.
Swallows in the Southern states kill the cotton-boll weevil, one of our worst insect pests.
The one beetle doing by far the greatest harm in this country is the cotton-boll weevil.
Profitable crops of cotton can be grown in spite of the boll weevil and cotton is not now a surplus money crop.
The boll weevil means diversified farming and stock raising.
Plenty of good labor is an absolute necessity in growing cotton under boll weevil conditions.
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