general election

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general election (plural general elections)

1. An election, usually held at regular intervals, in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a nation.
   • 2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 31:

     With a General Election under two years away (and if, by then, the Plan for Rail had already begun to be implemented), would it be efficient or worth implementing Labour's full nationalisation should it form a government?

2. (Cockney rhyming slang) An erection.

• (type of election): primary, special election

• general election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eric Partridge (2005) “general election”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 853.