blackshirt

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black·shirt / ˈblakˌshərt/ • n. a member of a fascist organization, in particular: ∎  (in Italy) a member of a paramilitary group founded by Mussolini. ∎  (in Nazi Germany) a member of the SS.

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blackshirt

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blackshirt a member of a Fascist organization, in particular, (in Italy) a member of a paramilitary group founded in the 1920s by Benito Mussolini, and (in the UK) a supporter of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, founded in 1932.

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