Brownshirt

Brown Shirt

or brown·shirt (broun′shûrt′)

n.

1. A Nazi, especially a storm trooper.

2. A racist, especially a violent, right-wing one.

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[Translation of German Braunhemd : braun, brown + Hemd, shirt.]

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Brown•shirt

(ˈbraʊnˌʃɜrt)

n.

1. a storm trooper in Nazi Germany.

2. (sometimes l.c.) a Nazi.

[1930–35; so called from the color of the uniform shirt]

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Noun

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Brownshirt - a member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms SA, Storm Troops, Sturmabteilung - Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943 Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990 German Nazi, Nazi - a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party

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