Fartgate

English

Etymology

From fart +‎ -gate.

Proper noun

Fartgate

  1. (informal) Any controversy involving flatulence.
    • 2018 November 17, Frank Keogh, “Gary Anderson-Wesley Harms 'fartgate': We must get to bottom of it, jokes Barry Hearn”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      When a sport is rocked by "fartgate", the only thing the person in charge can do is laugh.
    • 2018 December 28, Benjamin Mueller, “Showmanship, and Conflict, as Darts Goes From Smoky Pubs to TV Spectacle”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      Mr. Anderson was accused last month of passing gas so pungent it threw his opponent off, an incident soon dubbed Fartgate.
    • 2019 November 19, Angela Watercutter, “With #Fartgate, Twitter Was a Gas Once Again”, in WIRED‎[3]:
      This, reader, is where the true meaning of #Fartgate came alive. Arguing over who flatulated on MSNBC—or whether anyone did at all—isn’t the point. The point is that Twitter used to be about goofing off and making each other laugh.
    • 2019 November 20, Peter Weber, “The Daily Show gets to the bottom of the MSNBC-Eric Swalwell #Fartgate mystery”, in The Week‎[4]:
      The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon ran with it, a little sheepishly. "The other big political story is that the hashtag #Fartgate was trending yesterday after people thought Rep. Eric Swalwell may have passed gas on live TV," he said.
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