Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Nazi, especially a storm trooper.
- noun A racist, especially a violent, right-wing one.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At the very least, it would provide a courtroom ding-dong that would expose Hitler either as an unreformed thug to his big-money, bourgeois backers or as a turncoat wuss to the millions of Brown Shirt maniacs who were out spreading mayhem and fear in his name.
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For 13 years the old government had failed to tackle persistent antisocial behaviour in one of London's most dysfunctional neighbourhoods: Downing St. Setting fire to speeches, throwing bricks through policy windows, the Blair Babes goody-goodies lived in terror of the Brown Shirt gang which had cocked a snook at authority.
After Mandelson's storm, John Prescott calms – and charms – the Lords Michael White in the House of Lords 2010
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The *individual* men and women involved might have some real interests but they've been co-opted by the Brown Shirt types.
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The first thing that came to mind is the Brown Shirt tactics to destroy town hall meetings all over the country orchestrated by the right wing to defeat health care reform and defeat Obama all in one fell swoop.
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Beck is a Brown Shirt, who will be a Black Shirt in the new order he envisions.
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She gives her Brown Shirt followers all the propaganda narratives her thugs should believe.
Prominent McCain Supporter: I'm "Absolutely" Concerned That Obama Is Anti-American 2009
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My aunt was a child in WWII Germany a forced member of the Hitler Youth, her father was a Brown Shirt for Hitler and he disappeared shortly before the war's end, never to be seen or heard from again, leaving my aunt and her mother completely alone.
"I love movies like that..." Ann Althouse 2009
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They have backed off from the report - gee, what Brown Shirt could have promised a nice weenie roast at the station, over a big bonfire?
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Most of my in-law relatives (married to my Aunts and Uncles) are first or second generation immigrants or those who still live in their native countries: Mexico, Argentina (of Italian heritage),Japan and an Aunt from Germany who's father was a Brown Shirt in Hitler's Germany.
"Clinton is pressed to say that Obama is not a Muslim. She does - but then she pulls it back." Ann Althouse 2008
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I do play guitar but Idress in a Brown Shirt as would expect…a few more years and I`ll get a black uniform with some shiny skulls and such ..happy thought.
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