tankie

Definitions

• (communism) A member of the who supported the Soviet Union's policy of crushing revolts in Hungary in the 1950s and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s by sending army tanks into these countries.
• (communism) A person supportive of the policies of the Soviet Union or other authoritarian socialist governments.
• (military slang) A soldier from a tank regiment.
• (rail transport) A tank engine.