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German
Etymology
Waterkant (“ coast”) + -gate, a bilingual pun on Watergate.
Proper noun
Waterkantgate n (proper noun, strong, genitive Waterkantgates)
- (informal) A 1987 political spying scandal in Germany.
2016 February 5, Jan Freitag, “In einem Land vor unserer Zeit”, in Die Zeit:[…] Die Presse sprach von "Waterkantgate", Barschel trat nach einem gebrochenen Ehrenwort zurück, fünf Wochen später lag er tot in der Badewanne eines Genfer Hotels, womit Ermittlungen eingeleitet wurden, die sechs Jahre später Amtsnachfolger Engholm in den Abgrund rissen und 1998 ergebnislos eingestellt wurden.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)