deckman
Speech parts
1. deckman - Noun
2. Deckman - Proper noun
Meaning
deckman (plural deckmen)
A man who works on the deck of a ship.
Deckman (plural Deckmans)
A surname from German.
Examples
Deckman, the Washington College political science professor, is worried what could happen if Trump wins: “Will they double down or will they be disaffected?
Deckman said her surveys reveal that though a majority of Generation Z identify as cis-male and cis-female — meaning their gender identities match their sex assigned at birth — roughly 1 in 4 identify as queer, either transgender or “genderqueer.”
As Trump-era Republicans double down on their appeals to a white base, Deckman said, the reality is “demographically, younger America looks very different than the base of the GOP.”
Washington College political science professor Melissa Deckman, who’s writing a book about Gen Z, said the national party probably feels that it’s in a difficult position, embracing a centrist nominee while much of its emerging energy is on the left.