landslide
[land-slahyd]
noun Also called, especially British, land·slip [land-slip] /ˈlændˌslɪp/ (for defs 1, 2).
the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
the mass itself.
an election in which a particular victorious candidate or party receives an overwhelming mass or majority of votes: the 1936 landslide for Roosevelt.
any overwhelming victory: She won the contest by a landslide.
verb (used without object), land·slid, land·slid or land·slid·den, land·slid·ing.
to come down in or as in a landslide.
to win an election by an overwhelming majority.
Origin of landslide
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He was killed by a landslip in the pit, when he was barely forty years old.
A Zola DictionaryJ. G. Patterson
"Mrs. Henchman wanted us all to walk to the Landslip this afternoon," she said.
The Girls of St. Olave'sMabel Mackintosh
We don't want to sit staring down the Landslip till they arrive.
The Girls of St. Olave'sMabel Mackintosh
Audrey had to come back with her and I went on to the Landslip to find you.
The Girls of St. Olave'sMabel Mackintosh
The first thing we did was to go back to our camp and see the effect of the landslip.
Peter TrawlW. H. G. Kingston
landslide
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