commie
adjEtymology Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).
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Derogatory, Slang Communist.
- Derived terms
- anti-commie
commie
nounalso spelled CommieUK /ˈkɒ.mi/ · US /ˈkɑ.mi/
Etymology Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).
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Derogatory, Slang A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
- Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than ever meet Catherine in a café.
- “Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, published 2003, page 49:
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- 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.”
- The commies claim they are helping the blacks.2004, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, page 48:
- "I heard Winnie the Pooh was like garlic to a vampire to the Chinese commies," he said. "Popular arts and music, poetry, dancing and singing is a threat to those in power, and I'm really trying to bring back that rock-and-roll rebellious spirit into music, you know."2024 January 29 [2024 January 26], Tim Lee, Ray Chung, quoting Brendan Kavanagh, “London YouTuber hid in van, received death threats after piano face-off”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2024:
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Broadly, Derogatory, Slang Synonym of anticapitalist.
- Synonyms
- commo
- Derived terms
- anarcho-commie, anti-commie, commie block, commiecrat, Commiefornia, femicommie
- Related terms
- red under the bed, tankie