Gategate

name, slang

name, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Plebgate. UK, informal

Etymology

From gate + -gate, since the controversy involved a policeman asking MP Andrew Mitchell to leave Downing Street by a different gate.

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