commie
1or com·my
[ kom-ee ]
/ ˈkɒm i /
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noun, plural com·mies, adjective (often initial capital letter) Informal: Disparaging and Offensive.
RELATED WORDS
comrade, sympathizer, red, Marxist, pinko, apparatchik, Socialist, Bolshevist, Trotskyite, Bolshevik, Maoist, Stalinist, Leninist
Nearby words
- commercial vehicle,
- commercialism,
- commerciality,
- commercialization,
- commercialize,
- comminate,
- commination,
- comminatory,
- commines,
- commines, philippe de
Origin of commie
1Usage note
The shortened and informal term commie has derogatory connotations, whereas the full form communist is merely descriptive. Both terms refer primarily to an advocate of communism, but have been more widely applied to an enemy, a foreigner, or a person regarded as subversive.
commie
2[ kom-ee ]
/ ˈkɒm i /
noun
a playing marble, especially one not used as a shooter.
Origin of commie
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Examples from the Web for commie
Both the Left and the Right find occasional moments of inspiration in the little red book mentality of the old Commie regimes.
Would you fight, and if need be, die, to save our civilization and slay the Commie monsters in their lairs?
Telempathy|Vance Simonds
commie
commy
jocular, derogatory
noun, adjective plural -mies
short for communist
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