tankie (English, noun)
expansion: tankie (plural tankies)
Senses:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain who supported the Soviet Union's policy of crushing revolts in Hungary in the 1950s and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s by sending tanks into those countries.
tags: UK
historical
slang
topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other authoritarian socialist (chiefly Marxist-Leninist) governments.
tags: broadly
derogatory
slang
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier from a tank regiment.
tags: slang
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A tank engine.
tags: slang
Forms:
form: tankies
tags: plural
form: tanky
tags: alternative