Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a communist.

1939		W. Winchell On Broadway 15 Aug. [synd. col.] A kin of Earl Browder, the chief Commy in the U.S., has over a million dollars in a N.Y. bank.
1940		G. Marx letter 12 June in Groucho Letters (1967) 21: I see Bund members dropping down my chimney, Commies under my bed.
1951		M. Spillane One Lonely Night 30: Some of them even looked like Commies.
1955		B. Hill Boss of Britain’s Underworld 133: I arranged a meet with the Commy. He was a slimy individual.
1962		R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 53: This slush is from the commies.
1973		G.V. Higgins Digger’s Game (1981) 73: I went to fuckin’ Havana before that fuckin’ Commie took over.
1974		H. Levin Bandiet 126: We had all been sentenced for actions arising out of our opposition to apartheid. [...] The bandiete at Central called us simply ‘the kommies’.
1983		M. Read Scouting for Boys in Best Radio Plays (1984) 180: You blasted commie. Queen and country!
1991		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper From The Inside 123: Everything from Left-wing Commie, Save the Nation [...] to the Gay neo-Nazi Action Faction.
2002		J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 88: They did believe that television rotted the brain, all commies weren’t bad, and if they were, they weren’t as bad as Pat Boone stealing from the Negroes.
2007		M. Rowson Stuff 33: He was thinking of going to Highgate Cemetary so that the Special Branch would take his photograph as they snapped the throng of commies.
2013		D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Hogan and his men had diverted their attention from prostitutes, bikies and criminals to the disruptions of ‘commies, ratbags and bludgers’.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 333: Pete wants [...] to leak the word on [Marilyn] Monroe as a Commie.