Pronunciation: ' kärd- ˌ ka-r ē -i ŋ
Function: adjective
Etymology: from the assumption that such a person carries an identification card
Date: 1948
1 : being a full-fledged member of an organization (as a Communist party)
2 a : strongly identified with a group (as of people with a common interest) < card-carrying members of the ecology movement ― R. J. Neuhaus> b : being such emphatically or unmistakably <a card-carrying hippie>