comsymp
[kom-simp]
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noun (sometimes initial capital letter) Informal: Disparaging and Offensive.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a person who sympathizes with communists.
Origin of comsymp
1960–65; com(munist) symp(athizer)
Usage note
This term is historically associated with the John Birch Society, a once prominent radical-right political organization, whose leaders used the term to describe their critics.
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Related Words for comsymp
comrade, sympathizer, red, Marxist, pinko, Commie, apparatchik, Socialist, Bolshevist, Trotskyite, Bolshevik, Maoist, Stalinist, LeninistExamples from the Web for comsymp
Contemporary Examples of comsymp
Anyone considered insufficiently anti-Communist was deemed a “comsymp”—short for Communist sympathizer.
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