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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

Throt•tle•bot•tom n. (sometimes l.c.)

a harmless incompetent in public office.

after Alexander Throttlebottom, character in Of Thee I Sing (1932), musical comedy by George south, southern. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind

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