card-carrying

card-carrying
adjective Etymology: from the assumption that such a person carries an identification card Date: 1948 1. being a full-fledged member of an organization (as a Communist party) 2. a. strongly identified with a group (as of people with a common interest) <
card-carrying members of the ecology movement — R. J. Neuhaus
>
b. being such emphatically or unmistakably <
a card-carrying hippie
>

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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