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Noun: Teapot Dome scandal
  1. 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
    - Teapot Dome

Type of: outrage, scandal

Encyclopedia: Teapot Dome scandal