locofoco

/L OW0 K OW1 F OW1 K OW0/
noun
  1. 1

    (archaic) A match (used for making fire).

  2. 2

    (US, politics, historical) A member of a faction of the US Democratic Party in the early 1800s, formed in New York City as a protest against that city's regular Democratic organization, Tammany Hall.

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