Crossword clues for pinko
pinko
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, derogatory slang form of pink (n.), used of people whose social or political views "have a tendency toward 'red;' " a metaphor that had existed since at least 1837. As an adjective by 1957.
Wiktionary
n. (context often derogatory English) A socialist who is not wholly communist.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pinko is a slang term coined in 1925 in the United States to describe a person regarded as being sympathetic to communism, though not necessarily a Communist Party member. It has since come to be used, derogatorily, to describe anyone perceived to have leftist or socialist sympathies.
The term has its origins in the notion that pink is a lighter shade of red, a color associated with communism. Thus pink could describe a "lighter form of communism", purportedly promoted by supporters of socialism who were not themselves actual or "card carrying" communists. The term pinko has a pejorative sense, whereas 'pink' in this definition can be used in a purely descriptive sense, such as in the term pink tide.
Usage examples of "pinko".
The pinko Democrats have taken the tack of jigaboos wrongly accused, intend to press the issue during the primary elections, and the Republican A.
I had hardly expected that my liaison person would be a pinko punk, but I like Outi a lot.
It had frequently been embarrassing, back when he was with the Bureau, to identify himself to some pinko as an FBI man and have the pinko fall on the floor laughing.
She had hired Neville Green, the notorious pinko lawyer, to prepare a file accusing the Daily Post under some obscure point of law relating to telephone tapping.
Father in the press for being too soft on the unemployed, on Relief, and on pinkos generally.
The left has created an atmosphere where politicians are afraid of the pinkos at the New York Times and the Washington Post.
They were considered by the military to be mostly pinkos, wimps, and bleeding hearts.
The left has created an atmosphere where politicians are afraid of the pinkos at the New York Times and the Washington Post.
They were considered by the military to be mostly pinkos, wimps, and bleeding hearts.
Hollywood writers and actors and hangers-on spouting cheap trauma, Pinko platitudes and guilt over raking in big money during the Depression, then penancing the bucks out to spurious leftist causes.
She's flirting with pinko politics and attending some sort of quasi-Commie coffee klatch every Monday night.
He'd be on her ass in a microsecond, revoke her letters testamentary, they'd call her names, proclaim her through all Orange County as a redistributionist and pinko, slip the old man from Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus in as administrator de bonis non and so much baby for code, constellations, shadow-legatees.
The tassel loafers and gray flannels were proceeds from a _Hush-Hush_ exposé linking jazz musicians to the Communist Conspiracy--he squeezed some pinko stuff out of a bass player he popped for needle marks.
Flipping through the sleeves, he saw expired Reynolds Loftis ID: library card, membership cards to Pinko organizations, a '36 California driver's license with a tag stuck to the back side, Emergency Medical Data--allergic to penicillin, minor recurring arthritis, O+ blood.
Flipping through the sleeves, he saw expired Reynolds Loftis ID: library card, membership cards to Pinko organizations, a ‘.