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  • noun A small gray or brown weevil (Anthonomus grandis) of southern North America and Central America that damages cotton crops by laying eggs in and feeding on buds and bolls.
  • noun Informal A conservative white Southern Democrat in the US House of Representatives, especially during the second half of the 20th century.

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  • noun beetle measuring an average length of six millimeters (¼ inch), which feeds on cotton buds and flowers, native to Central America

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  • noun greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton

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  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

    noun

    Date: 1895

    : a usually grayish or brown weevil (Anthonomus grandis grandis) that feeds on the squares and bolls of the cotton plant

    The Boll Weevil Song lyrics as sung by Eddie Cochran

    wah-hoo)

    well the boll weevil is a little black bug

    come from a-mexico they say

    came all the way to texas

    just a-lookin' for a place to stay

    just a-lookin' for a home, just a-lookin' for a home

    (doo-doo-wop-wop)

    well the first time that i seen the boll weevil

    he was a-sittin' on the square

    well the next time that i seen him

    he had his a-family there

    just a-lookin' for a home, just a-lookin' for a home

    (doo-doo-wop-wop)

    well the farmer took the boll weevil

    and he put him on the red hot sand

    well the weevil said this is a-mighty hot

    but i take it like a man

    this will be my home, this will be my home

    well the f armer took the boll weevil

    and he put him on a keg of ice

    well the weevil said to the farmer

    this is mighty cool and nice

    this will be my home, this will be my home

    (doo-doo-wop-wop)

    well if anybody should ask you

    who it was who sang this song

    say a guitar picker from a-oklahoma city

    with a pair of blue jeans on

    just a-lookin' for a home, just a-lookin' for a home

    (doo-doo-wop-wop)

    February 4, 2008

  • “To get his budget and tax bills through the House, Reagan needed support from conservative Democrats, many of them from Texas, known as ‘Boll Weevils.’�?

    The New York Times, Obama’s Reagan Transformation?, by Lou Cannon, January 27, 2009

    January 28, 2009

  • i destroyed south carolina's cotton MWAHAHAHA

    June 19, 2012