Meaning of Brownshirt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung.
   historical
2. Alternative letter-case form of Brownshirt.
   alt-of
3. Any member of a fascist party; any person accused of being neofascist or neo-Nazi.

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Examples

“A heavy arched door was pouring a raucous and lurching party of Brownshirts on to the trampled snow. […] Half-way up the vaulted stairs a groaning Brownshirt, propped against the wall on a swastika'd arm, was unloosing, in a staunchless gush down the steps, the intake of hours.”

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