Meaning of Fartgate | Babel Free

Definitions

Any controversy involving flatulence.

informal

Examples

“When a sport is rocked by "fartgate", the only thing the person in charge can do is laugh.”

“Mr. Anderson was accused last month of passing gas so pungent it threw his opponent off, an incident soon dubbed Fartgate.”

“This, reader, is where the true meaning of #Fartgate came alive. Arguing over who flatulated on MSNBC—or whether anyone did at all—isn’t the point. The point is that Twitter used to be about goofing off and making each other laugh.”

“The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon ran with it, a little sheepishly. "The other big political story is that the hashtag #Fartgate was trending yesterday after people thought Rep. Eric Swalwell may have passed gas on live TV," he said.”

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