Usually means: Independent, often aloof political figure.
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  1. mugwump: Merriam-Webster
  2. mugwump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mugwump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mugwump: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Mugwump, mugwump: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mugwump, mugwump: Wordnik
  7. mugwump: Wiktionary
  8. mugwump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mugwump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mugwump: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Mugwump, mugwump: Dictionary.com
  12. mugwump: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Mugwump (disambiguation), Mugwump (game), Mugwump (video game), Mugwump: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. mugwump: FreeDictionary.org
  15. mugwump: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. mugwump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Mugwump: The Word Detective
  18. mugwump: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Mugwump: World Wide Words
  20. Mugwump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  21. mugwump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  22. mugwump: Rhymezone
  23. Mugwump: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  24. Mugwump: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mugwump: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mugwump: A Word A Day
  2. mugwump: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mugwump: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mugwump: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mugwump)

noun:  (chiefly humorous) A (male) leader; an important (male) person.
noun:  (politics)
noun:  (US, historical) A member of the Republican Party who declined to support the party's nominee James G. Blaine (1830–1893) during the 1884 United States presidential election, believing him to be corrupt, and instead supported the Democratic Party's candidate Grover Cleveland (1837–1908).
noun:  (by extension) A person who purports to stay aloof from party politics.
noun:  (Australia, US, by extension) One who switches from supporting one political party to another, especially for personal benefit.
noun:  (Australia, US, by extension, colloquial, somewhat derogatory) A person who stays neutral or non-committal; a fence sitter; also, a person who maintains an aloof and often self-important demeanour.
noun:  (Australia) A foolish person.
verb:  (intransitive) To behave like a mugwump.
verb:  (intransitive) To purport to stay aloof and independent, especially from party politics.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of mugwump [(chiefly humorous) A (male) leader; an important (male) person.]

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