wine mom

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Noun

wine mom (plural wine moms)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) A mother who drinks alcohol to relieve the stress associated with parenting.
    • 2020 November 13, Alex Light, Annabelle Spranklen, “Is Billie Eilish's new music video a big FU to the body shamers, stalkers and paparazzi after being targeted for ‘putting on weight’?”, in Glamour‎[1]:
      But the photos very quickly did the rounds, and a man on Twitter decided to use the opportunity to body shame her. “In 10 months Billie Eilish has developed a mid-30s wine mom body,” he wrote.
  2. (Canada, US, informal, politics, usually derogatory) A suburban middle-aged middle-class liberal woman, perceived as unsupportive of male, left-wing or working-class causes.
    Antonyms: working class, blue-collar
    Near-synonym: resistlib
    • 2024 August 4, Susan J. Gemas, “Harris has managed to unite wine moms and lefty bros — for now”, in Michigan Advance‎[2]:
      And then there are the Millennial/Gen Z guys (at least online) who think all that is cringe “wine mom” stuff and resent that they’re the ones who stood in the way of the nirvana of a Bernie Sanders socialist presidency because they were willing to settle for Old Man Biden and now the cost of Doordashing burritos is out of control.
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