tankie English

Meaning tankie meaning

What does tankie mean?

tankie noun

— (communism, slang, historical, Britain) 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 army tanks into these countries.

— (communism, slang, derogatory, by extension) A person supportive of the policies of the Soviet Union or other authoritarian socialist governments.

— (military slang) A soldier from a tank regiment.

— (rail transport, slang) A tank engine.