commien.adj.

1928 Scout 12 May 826/3 Now the game has come to an end. The ‘Commies’ have stopped doing their share of it and don't seem inclined to play any more.

1932 Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call 2 Aug. 1/4 Camp officials charged it was hi-jacked by Communists. They sent out military police to ‘find the grub and the Commies’.

1949 Word Study May 4/2 A liberal is a man who is constantly and simultaneously being kicked in the teeth by the commies and in the pants by the National Association of Manufacturers.

1955 ‘D. Cory’ Phoenix Sings iv. 73 You weren't a Commie in those days.

1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate i. 13 After all, one might speak in that manner of the Wogs or the Commies.

1984 L. Deighton Mexico Set xii. 181 Who could imagine poor old Fi working for the rotten commies.

2001 M. Steel Reasons to be Cheerful vii. 74 During my own speech, one of my leaflets came drifting towards me in the form of an aeroplane... I could have tolerated an orchestrated chorus of ‘kill the commie’.

1945 Seafarers' Log 25 May 2/1 The Commie stooges and pie-cards kick us around.

1952 Time 28 Apr. 34 You hear the Commie line in every coffee house and bar.

1968 East Village Other 15 Nov. 2/1 If you don't like it here why don't you go to commie China or North Vietnam with all those slopeheads?

1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere v. 54 Organizations that want to keep themselves Red-free pay us a nominal fee to screen their employees and prospective employees for Commie associations.

2008 Morning Star (Nexis) 14 Apr. There are plenty on the US right who will regard this book as nothing more than perverted commie liberal treason simply for pointing all this out.