brownshirt

American  

[broun-shurt] / ˈbraʊnˌʃɜrt /

noun

(often initial capital letter)

1. a Nazi.

2. a Nazi storm trooper.

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Etymology

Origin of brownshirt

1930–35; brown + shirt so called from the color of the shirt worn as part of the uniform

Example Sentences

In musical numbers throughout the film, the Emcee gleefully depicts adultery, profligacy and polyamory, and even satirizes Hitler’s mustache without consequences, while seemingly every other Berlin eccentric is getting a nightstick to the cranium for uttering a cross word to a brownshirt.

From Salon

He was supposed to be their very own Horst Wessel, the murdered brownshirt the Nazis used as a martyr to rally people to fascism.

From Salon

He said the protest at the social affairs minister’s house had crossed a “red line,” harking back to the torch-lit Nazi brownshirt rallies of the 1930s.

From Washington Post

Schumer's statements, Levin continued, "are the words of a fascist, of a Brownshirt, of a totalitarian."

From Fox News

It was a story of numerous local police departments, emboldened by a wannabe fascist president, turning brownshirt against the ordinary people they are supposedly there to serve and protect.

From Salon