commie

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• Rhymes: -ɒmi

Blend of communist +‎ -ie (diminutive suffix).

commie (plural commies)

1. (derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
   • 1960, Mira Rothenberg, Peter Levine, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, 2003, page 49,

     “Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”

   • 1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah′s a Two-Way Street Running Out, Black World: Negro Digest, page 67,

     “Why, them dirty commies, of course. They′re the ones startin′ all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin′ niggers wasn′t causin′ no trouble until them Yankee commies started in.”

   • 2004, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture, page 48,

     The commies claim they are helping the blacks.

2. (derogatory, slang, by extension) Synonym of anticapitalist

• commo (Australia)

• red under the bed

commie (not comparable)

1. (derogatory, slang) Communist.

From Commodore (“name of a car model”) +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

commie (plural commies)

1. (colloquial, Australia) A Holden Commodore.

From commercial vehicle

commie (plural commies)

1. (colloquial, army) A commercial vehicle.

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