English
commie
see also: Commie
Noun

commie (plural commies)

  1. (pejorative, 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BkN4UmMQRCAC&pg=PA49&dq=%22commie%22|%22commies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hdcvT6esFqqiiAfD5YnNDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22commie%22|%22commies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6DkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67&dq=%22commie%22|%22commies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z9QvT_L0C6uaiAee8YHaDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22commie%22|%22commies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7XM3T-oShboC&pg=PA48&dq=%22commie%22|%22commies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xdEvT9O_O-WviQedz5HfDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22commie%22|%22commies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 48],
      The commies claim they are helping the blacks.
  2. (pejorative, slang, by extension) Synonym of anticapitalist#English|anticapitalist
Synonyms Translations
  • French: coco
  • German: Kommi
  • Portuguese: comuna
  • Russian: коммуня́ка
  • Spanish: comunistoide, rojo, rojillo, bolche (Rio de la Plata), zurdo (Río de la Plata), chairo (Mexico)
Adjective

commie (not comparable)

  1. (pejorative, slang) Communist.
Noun

commie (plural commies)

  1. (colloquial, Australia) A Holden Commodore.
Noun

commie (plural commies)

  1. (colloquial, army) A commercial vehicle.
Commie
Noun

commie (plural commies)

  1. (slang, pejorative) A Communist.
Adjective

commie

  1. (slang, pejorative) Communist.
Noun

commie (plural commies)

  1. (computing, slang) A Commodore 64 computer.


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