gerrymander

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gerrymander (orig. U. S.) manipulate election districts unfairly so as to secure disproportionate representation. XIX. f. name of Elbridge Gerry, governor of Massachusetts, who is related to have constructed a district map of the U.S.A. in which the shape of one district suggested to an artist the addition of head, wings, and claws; he exclaimed ‘That will do for a salamander!’, to which another retorted ‘Gerrymander!’

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