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pinko

[ ping-koh ]
/ ˈpɪŋ koʊ /
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).

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RELATED WORDS

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

Nearby words

  1. pinkiang,
  2. pinkie,
  3. pinking iron,
  4. pinking shears,
  5. pinkish,
  6. pinkroot,
  7. pinkster,
  8. pinky,
  9. pinky bar,
  10. pinna

Origin of pinko

First recorded in 1935–40; pink1 + -o
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British Dictionary definitions for pinko

pinko

/ (ˈpɪŋkəʊ) /

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

pinko

n.

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.

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