Nazi

noun

1. 1

   historicalA member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP).

   After World War II, many Nazis fled to South American countries like Argentina and Chile to escape prosecution.

   Taiwan fears Xi Jinping has been inspired by Adolf Hitler's tactics, and is calling on our federal government to take action, warning a Chinese invasion would allow Beijing to rule the world by weaponising its computer chip industry. The Taiwanese Deputy Foreign Minister compared the sector to the Czech armaments which boosted the capability of the Nazis in World War II.

   Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “crown jurist” and political theorist, Carl Schmitt, in the Trump administration’s domestic policies, particularly his doctrine of “the exception”, which can be used to suspend certain constitutional rights.

2. 2

   historicalA member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP). A person associated with Nazi Germany.

   Our city was occupied by Nazis during World War II.

3. 3

   One who advocates neo-Nazism, or a similarly fascist, racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic, ethnic supremacist, or ultranationalist ideology; a neo-Nazi.

4. 4

   slangOne who imposes their views on others; one who is unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict. (also frequently uncapitalised: nazi)

   She's a total grammar Nazi.

adjective

1. 1

   historicalOf or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.

2. 2

   historicalOf or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally. Of or pertaining to the Third Reich and Nazi Germany.

   There was Nazi soldiers all over the frontline.

   They have good reason to fear them too, for their machine gun strafing, their rockets, and their bombs knock out Nazi bridges, trucks, tanks, and kill them by the score.

   The second development was the program for the redesign (Neugestaltung) of several German cities as representative Nazi cities.

   It was reminiscent of the rallies held by Adolph Hitler during the 1930s-1940s before adoring crowds in Nazi Germany. At many of these Nazi rallies, the German participants swore personal allegiance to their nation’s leader-Adolph Hitler over and above their own Nation-Germany.

3. 3

   Domineering, totalitarian, or intolerant.

proper noun

1. 1

   The language (ideological jargon) of Nazis.

   All this requires some very careful unpacking, for obviously, Dr. Bosse is “speaking Nazi with the Bormann dialect.”

2. 2

   rareThe German language.

   In Hitler's Own Words: Shut up, Yank — learn to speak NAZI!

   He pushed aside his ponytailed minion and stepped right up to Tank, who gave him a perplexed look as he barked a few words in guttural German. “I don't speak Nazi,” Tank said.

   “This is all sounding very pretty, Shaw,” Spencer checks his watch. “But how about you share what's being said for the rest of us who don't speak Nazi.”

Forms

plural

Nazis

comparative

more Nazi

superlative

most Nazi