Gaetz
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡeɪts/
- Homophone: Gates
Proper noun
Gaetz (plural Gaetzs or Gaetzes)
- A surname.
- 2020 March, Ryan Bort, “The MAGA Mouthpiece”, in Rolling Stone, page 42:
- "I do think that some of the blue-checkmark brigade backlash on Twitter that you all in the media so predictably overreact to is non-organic," he says, using the Trumpworld shorthand for "verified" Twitter users. (Gaetz is a verified Twitter user.)
- 2024 December 23, Sarah Ferris and Jeremy Herb, “House Ethics report finds evidence Matt Gaetz paid thousands for sex and drugs including paying a 17-year-old for sex in 2017”, in CNN[1]:
- The committee’s investigation into Gaetz began in 2021 but was put on hold while a separate, yearslong federal sex-trafficking investigation into the former congressman was underway.