Top cover

In general terms used in the corporate world.
When a manager/supervisor/boss stands up to protect verbally an employee from interference from other managers from other departments.

My manager gave me Top cover today even though I don’t see him often.

by anonymous March 4, 2024

Sour-cream covered iced-tea can

You are a very nice and gentle person

“*here is a Sour-cream covered iced-tea can”

“means You are a very kind and gentle person”

by awesrdtgyhujilk; March 7, 2024

cover rattle

Cigarette packets covered in rattles to shake some sense into smokers

Someone: “Hey bro i just saw your mom smoking ew”

Someone else: “dw bro i put cover rattles on it so she can quit”

Someone: “nice bro”

by ezhasbigbalz July 9, 2021

Theory of Geopolitics Under the Covers

The study of how the private interests, familial connections, secret allegiances, and personal pathologies of national leaders clandestinely drive state policy, often subverting or overriding official ideology and strategic national interest. It's the recognition that geopolitics is not a clean game of rational actors, but is conducted by flawed humans whose vanity, grudges, friendships, and corrupt dealings can alter the fate of nations behind a veil of official rhetoric.

Example: A president launching a trade war not after a strategic review, but because a rival leader personally insulted them at a G7 dinner, is Geopolitics Under the Covers. It's the unspoken, personal driver—ego, a secret business deal for a crony, blackmail—that explains an otherwise irrational or disproportionate state action. Theory of Geopolitics Under the Covers

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026

Theory of Politics Under the Covers

The analysis of how intimate, private relationships (romantic, familial, friendly) are fundamentally shaped by, and in turn shape, larger political power structures, ideologies, and economic realities. It asserts that the personal is not just political; the personal is a microcosm of the political. Who does the dishes, how a couple budgets, or what is discussed (or silenced) at the dinner table are all enactments of class, gender, and cultural power dynamics.

Theory of Politics Under the Covers Example: A "progressive" man who still expects his female partner to handle all the emotional labor and mental load of the household is practicing Politics Under the Covers. His public ideology clashes with the private, lived political economy of his relationship, revealing that his beliefs haven't conquered his ingrained social programming about gender roles.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026