Definition of brownshirt
:nazi;
especially
:storm trooper
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Security forces and brownshirts, working together to crush dissent with brutal violence.
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This is a particularly strange move for someone said to be a modern brownshirt/fascist/crypto-Nazi.
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To the top left, a cake version of every brownshirt’s favorite space ship, Serenity, followed by a Yellow Submarine that is just far too beautiful to eat.
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First Known Use of brownshirt
1932
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