Debs

American

[debz] / dɛbz /

noun

Eugene Victor, 1855–1926, U.S. labor leader: Socialist candidate for president 1900–20.

Debs British

/ dɛbz /

noun

Eugene Victor. 1855–1926, US labour leader; five times Socialist presidential candidate (1900–20)

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New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, began his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

Socialist labor leader Eugene Debs led a national boycott only to have it broken by federal troops.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to jail in 1918 for speaking out against the First World War.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2025

The fire burned an acre of dense brush just after 12:30 p.m. in Ernest E. Debs Regional Park, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

To workers, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers came increasingly to seem like saviors, Chicago’s merchant princes like devils.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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