English Explanatory Dictionary

Fingergate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A 2015 controversy around a video, later found to be doctored, allegedly showing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis making an obscene hand gesture to punctuate his comments about the financial relationship of Greece and Germany during a lecture in Croatia in 2013.

Word forms

Fingergate

Etymology

From finger + -gate.

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