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    gerrymander

    gerrymander - Dictionary definition and meaning for word gerrymander

    Definition
    (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) Definition
    (verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts
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Relate it with Jerry of 'Tom and Jerry' cartoon in which Jerry divided everything partially with Tom and quarrels with him... so possessing a Jerry's mind - Gerrymander.

Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander. Gerry, governor of Massachusetts, was lampooned when his party redistricted the state in a blatant bid to preserve an Antifederalist majority. One Essex County district resembled a salamander, and a newspaper editor dub

When you gerrymander, you take gaer man under

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