pinko

[ping-koh]Older Slang: Disparaging.

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noun, plural pink·os, pink·oes.

a person with left-wing, but not extreme, political opinions.

a person who leans toward communist ideology.

adjective

pink¹(def 10).

Origin of pinko

First recorded in 1935–40; pink¹ + -o

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Related Words for pinko

comrade, sympathizer, red, Marxist, pinko, Commie, apparatchik, Socialist, Bolshevist, Trotskyite, Bolshevik, Maoist, Stalinist, Leninist

British Dictionary definitions for pinko

pinko

noun plural -os or -oes mainly US derogatory

a person regarded as mildly left-wing

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Word Origin and History for pinko

1936, derogatory slang form of pink (n.), used of people whose social or political views "have a tendency toward 'red;' " a metaphor that had existed since at least 1837. As an adjective by 1957.