card-carrying
card–car·ry·ing
adj \ˈkärd-ˌka-rē-iŋ\Definition of CARD-CARRYING
1
: being a full-fledged member of an organization (as a Communist party)
2
a : strongly identified with a group (as of people with a common interest) <card–carrying members of the ecology movement — R. J. Neuhaus> b : being such emphatically or unmistakably <a card–carrying hippie>
See Origin of CARD-CARRYING
from the assumption that such a person carries an identification card
First Known Use: 1948
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