Crossword clues for veep
veep
- Dick Cheney, e.g
- Cheney, e.g
- C. in C.'s second-in-command
- Winner of five 2015 Primetime Emmys
- White House colloquialism
- VIP on Air Force Two
- V. I. P. in Washington
- Show for which Julia Louis-Dreyfus has won four consecutive acting Emmys
- Sharer of the winning ticket
- Sharer of a winning ticket?
- Second in command, often
- Second in command, maybe
- Second banana of a sort
- Quayle, once
- Prominent #2
- Prez's next-in-line
- Prez's associate
- Prez backup
- Pres' second banana
- POTUS' No. 2
- POTUS backup
- Political comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Nixon or Agnew, once
- Louis-Dreyfus sitcom
- Louis-Dreyfus comedy
- Long-running HBO comedy
- Kamala Harris, e.g., slangily
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus's HBO show set in D.C
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus political satire show
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus HBO series
- Joe Biden's position, for short
- Joe Biden, informally
- Job for which the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner said Sarah Palin was picked for "reasons of image, not substance"
- HBO show that has defied the Seinfeld Curse
- HBO show on which Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars
- HBO series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- HBO series about the politician Selina Meyer
- HBO series about politician Selina Meyer
- HBO satire starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- HBO political satire
- HBO political comedy that won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series this year
- HBO political comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- HBO comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- HBO comedy about a fictional second-in-command at the White House
- Gore, to Clinton
- Gore, once
- Gore, informally
- Gore, for one
- George H.W. Bush, once
- Fairbanks, for Teddy Roosevelt
- Emmy-winning HBO comedy
- Biden, in headlines
- Biden, familiarly
- Barkley's title
- Backup for a prez
- Albert Gore for one
- Alben Barkley, e.g
- 2015 Emmy winner for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
- #2 man, informally
- 40-Across, informally
- No. 2
- Number two
- Mondale or Quayle, e.g.
- Prez's stand-in
- Dick Cheney, e.g.
- Prez's #2
- #2 exec
- Nixon, once
- Bush, in the 80's
- Prez's backup
- L.B.J. or R.M.N., once
- 27-Across, e.g., informally
- Senate tie breaker
- Resident of D.C.'s Observatory Circle
- HBO hit starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- HBO political satire until 2019
- Hit HBO show for Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Barkley's nickname
- Barkley, familiarly
- Barkley's sobriquet
- Agnew, once
- Prez's helper
- #2, informally
- Barkley was one
- Alben Barkley was one
- Presider over the U.S. Senate
- Prexy's subordinate
- Nickname for Barkley
- Barkley sobriquet
- Name for Barkley
- Alben Barkley sobriquet
- Barkley nickname
- Second in command, briefly
- Prez's second-in-command
- Corp. officer
- Second in command, informally
- Prexy's associate
- Prez's underling
- Biden, e.g
- Ticket-sharer with the prez
- Political second banana
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy on HBO
- Joe Biden, e.g
- Backup to a prez
- White House No. 2
- Vice president, slangily
- Ticket sharer, informally
- Teddy Roosevelt, for one
- Second-ranking exec
- Prez's partner
- Prez's next-in-command
- POTUS's second in command
- Number-two exec
- Nixon, in the '50s
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus show
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus series
- Ford, but not Lincoln
- Dick, to Ike
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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," "his grandchildren, finding Vice-President too long, call him that." The magazines quickly picked it up, especially when the 71-year-old Barkley married a 38-year-old widow (dubbed the Veepess).\n\nBarkley says word "Veep" is not copyrighted, and any vice president who wants to can use it. But he hopes not many will.
[U.S. Department of State wireless bulletin, 1949]
\n"Time," tongue in cheek, suggested the president should be Peep, the Secretary of State Steep, and the Secretary of Labor Sleep.Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination. 2 (context informal English) Any vice president (in a corporation, organization, etc.)
Wikipedia
Veep may refer to:
- Saint Veep, an English saint
- Vice president
- Veep (TV series), a 2012 HBO comedy series
- Veep Records, an American music label
Veep is an American political satire comedy television series, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, that premiered on HBO on April 22, 2012. The series was created by Armando Iannucci as an adaptation of the British sitcom The Thick of It.
Veep is set in the office of Selina Meyer, a fictional Vice President, and subsequent President, of the United States. The series follows Meyer and her team as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington, D.C.
The fifth season of Veep premiered on April 24, 2016, with a sixth season ordered for 2017.
Veep has received critical acclaim and won several major awards. It has been nominated five years in a row for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, winning the award for its fourth season. Its second and fourth seasons won the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series, with the third season winning the Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. Louis-Dreyfus has won four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards and one Television Critics Association Award for her performance. Supporting cast members Anna Chlumsky and Tony Hale have both received four consecutive Emmy nominations for their work on the series, including Hale winning in 2013 and 2015.
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.