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  • noun politics, informal Chinese communist or Communist Party of China.

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Examples

  • Thus it was when I came to the word Chicom in Seymour Topping’s Peking Letter, a riveting novel of the Chinese civil war, I wondered: Was that word—a portmanteau of “Chinese Communist”—in use in the late 40s?

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Thus it was when I came to the word Chicom in Seymour Topping’s Peking Letter, a riveting novel of the Chinese civil war, I wondered: Was that word—a portmanteau of “Chinese Communist”—in use in the late 40s?

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Thus it was when I came to the word Chicom in Seymour Topping’s Peking Letter, a riveting novel of the Chinese civil war, I wondered: Was that word—a portmanteau of “Chinese Communist”—in use in the late 40s?

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Thus it was when I came to the word Chicom in Seymour Topping’s Peking Letter, a riveting novel of the Chinese civil war, I wondered: Was that word—a portmanteau of “Chinese Communist”—in use in the late 40s?

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • They committed the unpardonable sin of flying across the self-imposed line that we have stretched 30 miles below the wandering and crooked line known as the Chicom border.

    Thud Ridge Broughton, Jack, 1925- 1969

  • Vietnamese while waving a Chicom pistol "get down get down!" the three of us un-assed the helicopter in a big hurry.

    Michael Craig Campbell 2010

  • I knew being a courier was risky business, but damn these guys were playing for keeps, and all I had was this lousy Chicom .22 semi-auto.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • An explosion, probably a Chicom grenade or an RPG raked him with small pieces of shrapnel, but he kept going.

    Beth Crumley: 1st Battalion, 4th Marines Does "Whatever it Takes" Beth Crumley 2012

  • An explosion, probably a Chicom grenade or an RPG raked him with small pieces of shrapnel, but he kept going.

    Beth Crumley: 1st Battalion, 4th Marines Does "Whatever it Takes" Beth Crumley 2012

  • I mean come on she practically tried to lynch him with lies and he finally points out that she was a lawyer for the Chicom job destroying low wage, no health insurance company Walmart, and she goes red-faced ballistic!

    Video: Tensions Finally Boil Over Between Hillary And Obama 2009

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