barbecue stopper
n.— «Maybe if we’re lucky, there will be a religious nut who will stand as an independent and be a BBQ stopper for the Republican party. Nothing would please me more than seeing the Republican party split into factions resulting in around 35% support for GWB.» —“Re: Kerry’s Lead of a Week Ago All Gone Now, Thanks to the Iraq prisoner scandal” by Matty Usenet: alt.politics May 14, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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