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Uncle sugar

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  1. 1
    A personification of the American welfare state. Southern-US

    "“Uncle Sugar provides well for me. Because of Uncle Sugar I have a good education and the opportunity to retire when I'm thirty-five years old.""

Etymology

Blend of Uncle Sam + sugar daddy. Popularized by Mike Huckabee, though not original to him.

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