Definitions For Tankie

Adjective

(not comparable) (politics, slang, derogatory) Supporting the policies of the soviet union or other authoritarian socialist governments.

Noun

TANKIE (plural TANKIEs) (UK, politics, slang, historical) A member of the {{w, Communist Party of Great Britain}} who supported the soviet union's policy of crush#verb, crushing revolts in hungary in the 1950s and czechoslovakia in the 1960s by sending tanks into those countries. (politics, slang, derogatory, by extension) A supporter of authoritarian policies and actions by the soviet union, china, or other nominally socialist governments. (military, slang) A soldier from a tank regiment. (rail transport, slang) A tank engine.

Alternative forms

tank soldier; member of the Communist Party of Great Britain tanky

Etymology

tank + ie. Senses 1 and 2 were named for the tanks used by the Soviet Union against uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

See also

patsoc campist

Anagrams

Aitken, Kantei, intake, kaiten, kentia, kinate, take in, take-in