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Answer for the clue "Biden, in headlines ", 4 letters:
veep

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Word definitions for veep in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1949, American English, apparently coined from V.P. , abbreviation of vice president , perhaps modeled on jeep , which was then in vogue. Introduced by Alben W. Barkley (1877-1956), Harry Truman's vice president. According to the "Saturday Evening Post," ...

Usage examples of veep.

Diskan had seen his like at the space ports, a Veep from some decadent trade world, but to see such a man here was a surprise.

The Veep might talk of having Diskan in a vice because of his flight from Vaanchard and the stolen spacer, but a dead man was even easier to control.

As the party set out from the cache, to be joined at the ship by the Veep and a man wearing the badge of a personal guard, together with the medic, Diskan wondered what this world was like in a warmer season.

If he had babbled long and loudly enough about events leading up to his landing on Mimir, and he must have, then the Veep would be expecting dull acceptance from him now.

Suppose the Veep already knew about Zimgrald and the girl and intended to pick them up now?

The Veep was smiling now, the lips showing under the edge of the visor definitely curved.

He did not believe that either the Veep or the Jack officer would have started before taking every precaution possible to galactic science and ingenuity.

Did the Veep really know about the watchers and this was his answer to any menace from them?

The Veep scrambled to a higher point, using far-seeing lenses to view the ruins.

He watched the Veep adjust and readjust the lenses, as if, even with those to aid him, he could not get a clear sight of the bones of Xcothal.

But surely this Veep Cincred would not have left the ship without a guard, and Diskan mentioned that.

I could have sighted from this hotel had I been a Veep and able to afford one of the crown tower rooms with actual windows.

Not that of a Veep, who would have a windowed room or series of rooms above surface, but not down to the two- and three-mile depth of an underling.

With the other he pushed out a dish of candied bic plums, as if I must be wooed as a buyer in one of the Veep shops uptown.

He had had no ambition to climb to Veep status with always the fear of death from some equally ambitious rival grinning behind his shoulder.