Usually means: Scandal leading to Nixon's resignation.
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  1. watergate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Watergate, Watergate: Merriam-Webster
  3. Watergate, watergate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Watergate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Watergate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Watergate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Watergate, watergate: Wordnik
  8. Watergate, watergate: Wiktionary
  9. Watergate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Watergate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Watergate: Dictionary.com
  12. watergate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. The Watergate, Watergate (TV series), Watergate (album), Watergate (architecture), Watergate (disambiguation), Watergate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Watergate: Rhymezone
  15. watergate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. watergate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Watergate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. watergate, watergate: A Word A Day
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  1. Watergate: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, in 1972) that eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon.
verb:  (transitive) To treat in a manner reminiscent of the Watergate scandal.
verb:  (intransitive, somewhat rare) To engage in activities associated with the Watergate scandal.
noun:  A gate opening onto water, or only or mainly accessible by water.
noun:  Alternative form of water gate. [A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.]
verb:  Alternative form of Watergate. [(transitive) To treat in a manner reminiscent of the Watergate scandal.]

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