cccp
/si.si.si.piː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Example Sentences
- "Now that the CCCP is history. I wonder if we'll find out who Suvorov really was."
- "Canada won the 1972 Summit Series against the CCCP, just barely, but lost a lot of face, bragging rights, prestige, sense of self, identity, and propaganda points, even though life in the Soviet Union, judging by the big hockey rink in Moscow, was dismal, at best, and a totalitarian police state nightmare, at worst."
- "The CCCP had evil intentions as well[,] no?"
- "2013, Tom Hanks, introduction to Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by Alexei Leonov and David Scott, Open Road Media →ISBN A common generalisation about people who go into space, particularly those men who were the participants in the great space race between the USA and the CCCP, is that each is an automaton — a throttle jockey with a crew cut, a mind like a slide rule and a vocabulary of 'gee whiz' superlatives and 'A-OK' affirmatives."
- "One question from Japanese side was: 'What about sex in CCCP?' and 'the illustrious reply' — one soviet woman, very venerable and respectable, deputy and laureate of something, — she answered with dignity: 'There is no sex in CCCP at all!' — it was said with such a great pride, in such a peremptory tone, as if she was insulted in her best feelings, — both sides, both countries split their sides with laughter."
- "Taking the period 1945-1991 as one long war by proxy between the US and its allies and the CCCP and its puppet regimes (and sometimes Red China), the "Korean War" and "the Viet Nam War" can be considered battles or theaters in the larger conflict."
Etymology
Orthographic borrowing from Russian СССР (SSSR), abbreviation of Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (Sojuz Sovetskix Socialističeskix Respublik, “(The) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”).
Usage
Inflected Forms
the CCCP (canonical)