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peacenik|ˈpiːsnɪk|
[f. peace n. + -nik.]
A member of a pacifist movement, esp. when regarded as a ‘hippy’; freq. spec. an opponent of the military intervention of the United States in Vietnam. Also attrib.
1965Time 23 Apr. 13/2 (heading) War & Peaceniks. 1965San Francisco Examiner 6 Sept. 14/2 Dean Plapowski..described himself as a ‘peacenik’. This, he explained, ‘is probably a beatnik who's got himself hung up in pacifist and non-violent activity’. 1966Guardian 17 Aug. 9/2 The 60-year-old Judge is not suspected of ‘peacenik’ sympathies. 1971Ibid. 14 July 11/5 The air base appears to treat its peaceniks with an easy tolerance. 1974K. Millett Flying (1975) i. 117 A tenement crammed with peaceniks who have painted the word love across their brickfront. 1975P. Harcourt Fair Exchange i. 56 Who is this peacenik anyway? |