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pinko, a. and n. slang.|ˈpɪŋkəʊ| [f. pink n.4 or a.1 + -o2.] A. adj. 1. (See quots.)
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 224 Pinko, drunk. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 54 Pinko, drunk, esp. on methylated spirits. 2. = pink a.1 3. Chiefly U.S.
1957[see long-hair n. 2 a]. 1959C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 38 Your pinko pals did what they wanted to when they got power. 1972D. Lees Zodiac 65 He made Ronald Reagan look like a pinko liberal. 1976N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone xii. 284 That look and attitude..proclaimed them goddamn ready and eager for any commie revolution the pinko nigger-loving government might be cooking up. 1977Transatlantic Rev. lx. 121 It's the number three song in China, sir. Saw it in one of those magazines my pinko parents subscribe to. B. n. = pink n.4 10. Chiefly U.S.
1936J. G. Cozzens Men & Brethren 104 She's a good girl... Now only a healthy pinko. I've snatched her like a brand from the Young Communist League burning. 1948‘B. Rose’ Wine, Women & Words 105, I wouldn't call him a Commie, but if he doesn't get a check from Moscow every week, he's being robbed... Unfortunately the pinko didn't drinko. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Dec. 753/1 To save his family from being ‘smeared’ by ‘left-wingers and pinkoes’ he decides to use the pseudonym Victor J. Fox. 1971New Society 7 Jan. 25/3 The new American jingoism wherein the enemy is not the enemy but all those disloyal pinkos at home. 1976Spectator 14 Feb. 13/3 The statement ‘we are all guilty’..is enough in itself to identify the speaker as a trendy pinko. |