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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hammer and sickle
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dark background with a red hammer and sickle in the centre.
▪ Its plastic jacket bore a gold hammer and sickle.
▪ Next to this break room is an architectural model of a proposed Soviet building in the shape of the hammer and sickle.
▪ The cistern of his lav is adorned with the hammer and sickle while the stars and stripes is also strategically placed.
▪ They unfurled their red hammer and sickle pennants.
Wiktionary
hammer and sickle

n. 1 (&lit hammer and sickle English) 2 A depiction of a sickle crossed with a hammer, used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.

WordNet
hammer and sickle

n. the emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union

Wikipedia
Hammer and sickle

The hammer and sickle (☭) or sickle and hammer is a Communist symbol that was conceived during the Russian Revolution. At the time of creation, the hammer stood for industrial labourers and the sickle for the peasantry; combined they stood for the worker-peasant alliance for socialism and against reactionary movements and foreign intervention.

After the Russian Civil War, the hammer and sickle became more widely used as symbolizing peaceful labour within the Soviet Union and international proletarian unity. It was taken up by many Communist movements around the world, some with local variations. Today, even after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the hammer and sickle remains commonplace in Russia and other former union republics, but its display is prohibited in some other former socialist countries.

Hammer and sickle (disambiguation)

The hammer and sickle (Russian: Serp i Molot: Серп и молот, "sickle and hammer") is the international symbol of Communism.

The name may refer to:

  • the Flag of the Soviet Union, consisting of a yellow hammer and sickle and star on a red background
  • Hammer & Sickle, a computer game
  • Sickle and Hammer (film), a Russian silent film

Usage examples of "hammer and sickle".

We're coming down in a Soviet spacecraft plainly marked with a hammer and sickle and that big CCCP.

A hammer and sickle can look very like a swastika, especially when it is flying over your head.

I stopped to examine the trunk of a tree where someone had carved a hammer and sickle that was bent to become a swastika.

The only decoration was the CoDominium flag, American eagle and Soviet hammer and sickle.

There were the floor design of a hammer and sickle under the dirt, unlit sconces of red stars, busts of Marx and Lenin along the balcony, the difference being that instead of a sarcophagus in the middle of the floor there was a Lada with plates that read 060 016.

I don't know that they would actually go through with painting a hammer and sickle on the face of the Moon, but it's consistent with their psychology.