Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun teapot_dome_scandal

1 sense of teapot dome scandal

Sense 1
Teapot Dome, Teapot Dome scandal -- (a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration)
       INSTANCE OF=> scandal, outrage -- (a disgraceful event)