win one for the Gipper
To do something in memory of another person.
gipper
/ˈɡɪpɚ/
noun 1name 1
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3GIPPER + NOUN
bee, congress
PREP.
up
ADV.
ever, heavily
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noun
1
One who gips (cleans fish in preparation for curing).
One man takes the Herrings out of the Well with the Ladnet, and fils the Gippers baskets. ¶ 9 Gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the Guts, and fling the ful Herring into one Basket, and the ſhotten Herring into another.
name
1
A nickname for American actor and politician Ronald Reagan.
It took no more than a jaunty one-liner in the second presidential debate—"I refuse to hold my opponent's youth against him"—for large numbers of people to be reassured that if the Gipper had ever been out of it, he was now back.
Over the eight years of the Reagan presidency, the Gipper asked Congress for $16.1 billion more in spending than it passed into law.
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One man takes the Herrings out of the Well with the Ladnet, and fils the Gippers baskets. ¶ 9 Gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the Guts, and fling the ful Herring into one Basket, and th
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It took no more than a jaunty one-liner in the second presidential debate—"I refuse to hold my opponent's youth against him"—for large numbers of people to be reassured that if the Gipper had ever bee
Wiktionary03
Over the eight years of the Reagan presidency, the Gipper asked Congress for $16.1 billion more in spending than it passed into law.
Wiktionary04
[…] most of the Ford vote from 1976, which Bush had hoped to claim, went heavily for the Gipper.
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Chalk one up for the gipper.
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