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digital brownshirt

noun

Etymology

From digital + brownshirt, coined by former U.S. vice president Al Gore in 2005.

  1. inherited from *skurtijǭ✻ — “a short garment, skirt, apron”
  2. inherited from *skurtijā✻
  3. inherited from sċyrte
  4. inherited from sherte
  5. compounded as brownshirt — “brown + shirt”
  6. compounded as digital brownshirt — “digital + brownshirt”

Definitions

  1. A right-wing blogger.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA