Greenhamn.
/ˈɡriːnəm/, U.S. /ˈɡrinəm/ attributive, esp. in Greenham woman and variants: designating any of the women who established a women's peace camp (see peace camp n. 2) at Greenham Common in 1981 to protest against the deployment of nuclear weapons at the United States airbases there and elsewhere.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > militant person > protester or demonstrator > specific
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Greenham woman1982
1982 Guardian 13 Dec. 12/2 The love of all people to use the Greenham Common women's dedication and commitment to make an abrasive and belittling point.
1983 Nucl. Times May 22/3 ‘You can tell a Greenham woman’, says a middle-aged mother in a woolly hat.
1983 Guardian Weekly 4 Dec. 5 Not least of it is the success of the Greenham women in preventing the effective deployment of the first batch of cruise missiles.
1999 Sunday Mirror 10 Oct. 36/2 The last Greenham Peace Women have vowed to build a memorial to their anti-nuclear struggle.
2006 Independent (Nexis) 8 Aug. 10 I'd run away from school to be a Greenham Woman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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