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commie

nounadjectivenounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɒ.mi//
  • United States//ˈkɑ.mi//
  • Australia//ˈkɔ.mi//

A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.

    Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than ever meet Catherine in a café.

    “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.”

    The commies claim they are helping the blacks.

  2. 2

    slangSynonym of anticapitalist.

Etymology

Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).

adjective

  1. 1

    slangCommunist.

noun

  1. 1

    A Holden Commodore.

Etymology

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

noun

  1. 1

    A commercial vehicle.

Etymology

From commercial vehicle.

Forms

plural
commies
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