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Londonistan

/ lʌnˈdʌnɪˌstɑːn /

noun

  1. an informal name for London, as considered by some people as a base for radical Islamists

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Londonistan1

C20: from London + Persian -stan place of; modelled on Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Example Sentences

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Ms. Hall also faced criticism after previously suggesting that the Notting Hill carnival, a famous annual Caribbean street event in West London, should potentially be relocated in the interests of public safety, and liking a social media post describing Mr. Khan as “the nipple-high mayor of Londonistan.”

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Beto O’Rourke; liberal Hollywood, “the true racists”; the “anti-Semite” Representative Rashida Tlaib; “nut job” Anthony Scaramucci, the former Trump White House communications director who finally broke with his former boss last month; and, in a retweet to start off the month, “the nipple-height mayor of Londonistan.”

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Trump has come under fire before for retweeting Hopkins, who has referred to London as “stab city” and “Khan’s Londonistan.”

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Mr. Trump was responding to a tweet by Ms. Hopkins about London’s knife crime that referred to the city as “Khan’s Londonistan.”

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Mr Trump retweeted a post from right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins blaming the violence on "Khan's Londonistan".

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