Usually means: Preferred local candidate in elections.
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  1. favorite son: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. favorite son: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. favorite son: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. favorite son: Collins English Dictionary
  5. favorite son: Vocabulary.com
  6. favorite son: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. favorite son: Wiktionary
  8. favorite son: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. favorite son: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. favorite son: Dictionary.com
  11. Favorite Son (disambiguation), Favorite Son (film), Favorite Son (miniseries), Favorite son: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. favorite son: Rhymezone
  13. favorite son: Free Dictionary
  14. favorite son: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. favorite son: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. favorite son: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (favorite son)

noun:  (US) A successful man from a particular area.
noun:  (politics) A male party member to whom the leadership is likely to assign a prominent role.
noun:  (US politics) A male candidate chosen by a state delegation for an initial ballot, in the knowledge that other delegations will not prefer this candidate, for the purpose of negotiation.

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