grassroots
by medaeval on Dec 27, 2003 05:27:18
local or person-to-person. A typical grassroots effort might include a door-to-door education and
survey campaign. Includes political, educational, artistic, and especially
collegiate movements involving the common people as constituting a
fundamental politico-economic group
Example:
My friends and I started a grassroots
campaign to
oust the oligarchal university
board of trustees.
grassroots
by thatcrazyguyoverthere on Feb 21, 2014 00:34:18
meaning "of the people, for the people" originally
used and abused by hippies.
and the word became
unanimous with any and all political movements in the USA.
since it's inception it has became the best example of
Semantic satiation as the word has lost all meaning due to the frequency of use.
Example:
"we must start a grassroots movement to show the government we
mean business." -some
hippy
"this business is so grassroots." -some starbucks hipster
"the band started as a grassroots, then eventually became
the funk rock band it is today." -some nonsense magazine
grassroots
by VoLcOm21 on Sep 10, 2006 01:41:28
1. The
groundwork or source of something.
2.
311's second studio album, recorded in
1994, and widely regarded as 311's finest album.
grassroots style
by noodlehead on Dec 15, 2004 12:27:03
(gras'-roots sti'-ul)
adjective--something that is done grassroots style is something that
nobody cares about but for some reason I don't stop saying it. Usually its something that is
actually funny, and in these cases maybe 2 other people would care about it. Anything labeled as grassroots style is probably not something that you would bother mentioning on a
college application or job resumé.
Tea Party Patriots Official American Grassroots Movement
by big gubmint librul on Oct 22, 2011 06:34:18
A corporate-funded
astroturf campaign disguised as a
grass roots movement. A movement who's main objective is to further enrich the top 1% through various
subversive means such as cutting the top tax rate (which is already the lowest it's been since the 1920s), and which has little agenda otherwise.
Example:
The Tea Party Patriots Official American Grassroots Movement is actually just a disingenuous attempt by the billionaire
Koch brothers and Fox News to shift the country's economic policy further in favor of wealthy, powerful elites, ignoring the fact that such policies under
George Dubya led to the
Great Recession.