commie
See also: Commie
English
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Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒmi
Noun
commie (plural commies)
- (derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
- 1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, 2003, page 49,
- “Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”
- 1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah′s a Two-Way Street Running Out, Black World: Negro Digest, page 67,
- “Why, them dirty commies, of course. They′re the ones startin′ all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin′ niggers wasn′t causin′ no trouble until them Yankee commies started in.”
- 2004, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, page 48,
- The commies claim they are helping the blacks.
- 1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, 2003, page 49,
- (derogatory, slang, by extension) Synonym of anticapitalist
Synonyms
- commo (Australia)
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