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chazer caucus

chazer caucus
 n.— «We have a new caucus on Capitol Hill: the chazer caucus. For those of you who might not be hip, chazer is the Yiddish word for pig. As in, “Gee, that person has so much [fill in the blank], to grab for more is just being a chazer.”» —“The Chazer Caucus” by Jonathan Tasini TomPaine.com Aug. 31, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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