-mander

Combining form of gerrymander.

Verb

  1. Combining form of gerrymander.
    • Playing on his opponent's name, he contended that he had not been "Gerry-mandered" out of Congress, but "Henry-mandered" out, because Gustavus Henry had introduced the redistricting resolution in the legislature. -...
    • this legislation was gerrymandered, or Sylvester-mandered or Barrett-mandered. - 1980, Díosbóireachtaí Párlaiminte: Tuairisc Oifigiúil, volume 322, page 821:
    • "Texas wasn't just gerry-mandered," The New York Times said in [ a 2003 ] editorial . . . . "It was Hammer-mandered." - 2005, Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis, American Politics, page 384:

Forms

-manders -mandering -mandered