Darth Vader
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
Darth Vader
- A powerful individual or force, particularly one that is seen as malevolent, dominating and threatening.
- 2004, Robert Whiting, The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave from Japan and the Transformation of Our National Pastime, p. 130:
- Irabu had hired Nomura, a man with whom he obviously had a great deal in common, and, who, as we have seen, was rapidly becoming the Darth Vader of Japanese baseball.
- 2003, Marleen S. Barr, Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium, p. xvii:
- Bush's missile shield plan positions him as Darth Vader.
- 2002, James Price Dillard, Michael Pfau, The Persuasion Handbook: the Persuasion Handbook (c): Developments in Theory and Practice, p. 611:
- Commonly assumed to exert massive effects on the electorate, political spots (notably negative ones) have been teasingly called the Darth Vader of modern politics...
- 1998, Jon Lewis, The New American Cinema, p. 108:
- In two different speeches the vice president called Malone, alternately “the Darth Vader of the cable industry,” and “[the man who runs] the cable Cosa Nostra.”
- 2004, Robert Whiting, The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave from Japan and the Transformation of Our National Pastime, p. 130:
- (informal, British, rail transportation) A British Rail Class 460 train.
- French: Dark Vador
- German: Darth Vader
- Italian: Dart Fener
- Portuguese: Darth Vader
- Russian: Дарт Ве́йдер
- Spanish: Darth Vader
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