Darth n. 2
(used as a title before the name of someone regarded as evil or an enemy)
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1980 Toronto Star 12 Aug.
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New York cashes in on Carter—with Darth Reagan T-shirts.
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1980 UCLA Satyr Oct. 15/1
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Of course, I knew Darth Reagan before he was seduced by the Dark Side.
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1998 Charlotte Observer 15 June 5
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The decade opens with evil warlord Darth Nixon and petty thug Vinnie ‘Three Fingers’ Agnew in power.
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2004 Montgomery (AL) Advertiser 12 Sept. 10/6
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No matter how many times Darth Cheney repeats the lie that Saddam and Osama were comrades-in-arms, it’s still a lie.
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2012
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In a world of calm, rational discourse, this would be seen as wasting time, but in the congressmen’s conservative districts, these actions can be successfully marketed as courageous defiance of Darth Obama.
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2018 Tampa Bay Times 1 Mar.
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Jon Gruden, Darth Raider, was finally asked when he took the Bucs off the list of teams he would like to coach once he decided to return to the sideline after nine seasons.
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2021 Letter in Arizona Daily Star 11 July (electronic ed.)
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Now I see the evil empire that the Republican Party has become using their power to ignore the Rule of Law, to go beyond ignoring Majority Rule to simply eliminate it, in lock step obedience to a totally evil Donald ‘Darth’ Trump.
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antedating 1980
Research History
Suggested, and most cites submitted, by Bill Mullins.
Last modified 2024-07-16 14:27:28
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