Blackshirt
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A former Mussolini Blackshirt —to make another intra-TV connection, he is essentially kin to the menacing, black market figures who haunted Lenù’s Neapolitan childhood in My Brilliant Friend—he is also a complete and total psycho.
From Slate • Sep. 24, 2020
Returning starters: 8 offense, 7 defense Nebraska's Blackshirt defense lost two of its best in linebacker Lavonte David and Alfonzo Dennard, voted the league's best cornerback.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2012
David expects to find a Blackshirt in his locker stall when he shows up for practice.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2011
Of his few friends and cronies, the majority were Blackshirt activists such as the odious "Fruity" Metcalfe.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011
Seeing how easily Francis's mother had become a Blackshirt, I asked my mother if something similar had happened to her, with her factory workmate Primrose and her fascist family.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2010
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