pinko
/ˈpɪŋkoʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A socialist, particularly one who is not completely communist.
American usage; Derogatory; Informal
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "At Princeton a lone townsman cried "Down with Mussolini!" in the midst of a reception, was jostled by students, escorted off the campus. At Harvard the pinko National Students League protested to President Conant, but allowed the visitors to tour Cambridge in peace."
- "“I agree with the decision one hundred per cent,” he said. “And if I find any pinkos that I don't know about on my lot I'll get rid of them if I can. They don't even have to be Communists. I'll try to clean out any leftists.”"
- "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."
- "Until society collectively starts using terminology like this effectively, all you'll end up with is a bunch of Commie Pinkos Stinking^([sic]) up parks around the country "Occupying" without a clear goal or message."
- "Kelly reassures his readers that the people who run this emerging economy are not left-wing in any traditional sense. They are “more likely to be libertarians than commie pinkos,” he explains."
- "Almost 10 years ago I made a documentary called Inside Child Poverty. Some people (largely members of John Key’s government) got very angry with me. I was a left wing pinko journo making this stuff up in an election year."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɪŋkoʊ/
- British English: /ˈpɪŋkəʊ/
Usage
- American usage
- Derogatory
- Informal