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stump speech
noun
- a political campaign speech, especially one made on a campaign tour.
Word History and Origins
Origin of stump speech1
Example Sentences
They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech.
When Schwartz finally arrived, she gave a version of her sunny stump speech.
Lastly, at his speech last night, Cruz got lots of hoots and hollers for his stump speech about guns/growth/freedom.
Indeed, during his final stump speech of the campaign, Obama's cheeks were streaked with tears.
In his stump speech, he calls them “powerful, mean people.”
Thus, the interpreter, confusing the points of situation, transforms the monologue into a stump speech.
Taking out a wooden leg, he answered: "A stump speech agin the war."
If ye were to hear that fellow make a stump speech on States' rights, you'd think him a Samson on Government.
And for a wind-up you can give them a stump speech, and I'll bill you as Lew Dockstader, second.
They were not slow in claiming that he would make a better stump speech than any one at the county seat.
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