one of a left-wing group of revolutionaries who overthrew President Somoza in 1979 and formed a socialist coalition government. The Sandinistas were opposed militarily by the US-backed Contras duringthe 1980s and were defeated in a general election in 1990
b.
(as modifier)
the Sandinista revolution
Word origin
C20: from Spanish, named after Augusto César Sandino a Nicaraguan general and rebel leader, murdered in 1933
Sandinista in American English
(ˌsændəˈnistə)
noun
a member of the party that overthrew the government and took power in Nicaragua from 1979 until 1990
Examples of 'Sandinista' in a sentence
Sandinista
Guapo told Eleanor he had been a soldier in the Sandinista army.
O'Connor, Joe DESPERADOES
There was a big neon ice cream cone on the roof and a Sandinista flag sellotaped to the door.
O'Connor, Joe DESPERADOES
Your State Department, your Mr Reagan, love to rant on and on about the horrors of the Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua.