sewer socialist

English

Noun

sewer socialist (plural sewer socialists)

  1. (US politics, originally derogatory) An advocate of sewer socialism.
    • 2025 October 11, Jonathan Derbyshire, “Bringing back the S-word”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
      As the historian Joshua Freeman pointed out, New York had a sewer socialist of its own in the first half of the 20th century: Fiorello La Guardia, who was mayor from 1934 to 1946.