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Grand Old Party

American  

noun

  1. G.O.P.


Grand Old Party British  

noun

  1.  GOP.  (in the US) a nickname for the Republican Party since 1880

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One Wyoming Republican has offered her own terse summary of what the Grand Old Party may be facing in the near future.

From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2022

“Hello, Republicans? Are any of you from the Grand Old Party still out there?”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2019

In Richard Nixon's 1964 presidential campaign, the GOP was used briefly as the basis for the slogan the "Go-Party", but by the late 1970s it had become firmly associated with the term Grand Old Party.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2016

This selection by Fiorina — she delivered the unsettling news that she has four verses to her song — puts the “old” in Grand Old Party.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2016

Other candidates were being scratched for reasons as flimsy, and our Grand Old Man was getting disgusted with the Grand Old Party, as represented at that meeting.

From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)