landslide
verbEtymology From land + slide.
1
To undergo a landslide.
- So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356:
landslide
nounUK, US /ˈlæn(d).slaɪd/
Etymology From land + slide.
1
A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
- Near-synonym: mudflow
- The landslides Wednesday in Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, followed Typhoon Megi, which brought heavy rains and high winds to China and Taiwan this past week.[…] The second landslide in Wencheng county killed five people, with one person still missing, an official at the county’s flood control office said Saturday.2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News, sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on 25 Sep 2024:
2
A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
- The candidate won at 61% to 39%, which most people are calling a landslide.
- Derived terms
- by a landslide, Landslide Lyndon, landslide victory
- Related terms
- avalanche, earthquake, mudslide, rockslide, sandslide, scriddan, clean sweep, shoo-in