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card-carrying

 adjective
     
card-carrying [only before noun]
1

card-carrying member

someone who has paid money to a political organization and is an official and active member of it:
a card-carrying member of the Labour Party
2 believing very strongly in something - used to show disapproval:
One of them is a card-carrying ecology freak.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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