单词 | black beret |
释义 | > as lemmasBlack Beret Black Beret n. chiefly in plural (a) a member of any of various elite military units having a black beret as part of their uniform; (b) a member of any of various militant groups distinguished by the wearing of a black beret. ΚΠ 1966 N.Y. Times 28 Dec. 3 (caption) Black Berets, members of the Navy's corps of guerrilla fighters, take part in simulated mission. 1971 G. MacEóin Revol. Next Door vii. 168 Mora is a Black Beret, the Chilean version of the Green Berets. 1972 N. R. Pierce Mountain States of Amer. 282 City officials..showed great reluctance to confer with the leading local militant group, the Black Berets, a ‘brown power’ organization. 1991 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 20 Jan. 3 b If legislators balk, his [sc. Gorbachev's] Black Berets can surround the Supreme Soviet and conduct a Pride's purge. 2006 L. Pulido Black Brown Yellow & Left ii. vi. 167 Other organizations were influenced by and emulated the BPP. Such groups include the aim,..the Red Guard, and the Black Berets. < as lemmas |
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