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German
Etymology
Platz + Hirsch
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Platz‧hirsch
Noun
Platzhirsch m (strong, genitive Platzhirsches or Platzhirschs, plural Platzhirsche)
- alpha deer
- (figurative) top dog, incumbent (leader of the pack)
2022 October 29, Dominik Baur, “CSU-Parteitag in Augsburg: Merz will lüften”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:[Friedrich Merz] hat dem Platzhirsch Markus Söder, der hier am Vortag gesprochen hat, die Show gestohlen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Platzhirsch
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