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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
peacenik

1962, from peace + -nik. An earlier equivalent was peacemonger (1808).

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peacenik

n. (context sometimes derogatory English) Someone who publicly opposes armed conflict in general, or a particular conflict; or who publicly opposes the proliferation of weapons.

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peacenik

n. someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations [syn: dove] [ant: hawk]

Usage examples of "peacenik".

Naomi, this free love and peacenik business of yours is probably just a stage you happen to be passing through.

Sorry, folks, but I was a peacenik then and I have to be a peacenik now.

Mercifully, since Polly had discovered politics there had been fewer of these horrible youths hanging about the place, although Mr and Mrs Slade lived in fear that on some rally or other their daughter would get involved with an anarcho-squatter peacenik punk with a tattooed penis and rings through his scrotum.

Still, the peacenik movement has gone into high gear, having received their marching orders from Commu-Nazi Central Command.

I want to propose something so revolutionary that it will flip out every Israeli right-winger and send every Israeli peacenik running to your side.

I was enough of a peacenik, optimist, and funker to take the other view.

In a modern version of the Iran-Iraq war, actor Sean Penn accused Steve Bing, Hollywood producer and general degenerate, of blacklisting him from a film in retaliation for his peacenik activities.

While I was away, it looks like she got in with a whole bunch of Commie-loving peaceniks from the Unitarian Church.

The peaceniks and the politicians in uniform that would never let us do our job the right way.

I was enough of a peacenik, optimist, and funker to take the other view.

He turned on the TV, hoping illogically that the news would show Northumber being attacked by peaceniks.

In a modern version of the Iran-Iraq war, actor Sean Penn accused Steve Bing, Hollywood producer and general degenerate, of blacklisting him from a film in retaliation for his peacenik activities.

Mercifully, since Polly had discovered politics there had been fewer of these horrible youths hanging about the place, although Mr and Mrs Slade lived in fear that on some rally or other their daughter would get involved with an anarcho-squatter peacenik punk with a tattooed penis and rings through his scrotum.

The Arab and the Jew that runs that peacenik greasy spoon, it's their own people that wants it shut down the most.

Cal is astonished that the makeup of the crowd is so different from what it would have been only two years ago, when nearly every longhair, Jesus freak, and raving peacenik in the land would have converged on Denver to tell Speero the Heero where to stick it and why.