Green’s Dictionary of Slang

communist, far-left wing.

1949		J.H. Burns Lucifer with a Book 159: A bunch of Commie intellectuals.
1957		Mad mag. Jan.–Feb. 14: The notorious commy-front group I exposed.
1959		A. Sinclair My Friend Judas (1963) 184: He probably voted Commie and read Proust.
1967		L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 22: That sounds like alotta Commie horseshit.
1970		T. Southern Blue Movie (1974) 11: His ceaseless enquiry had often earned him nothing more than the dubious soubriquet of [...] ‘Commie fag’.
1984		A. Sayle Train to Hell 41: His team were going to thrash the commie desperadoes they were playing against.
1991		B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 137: Commie assholes who’ve got nothin’ better to do but sit around [...] tearin’ this country down.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 176: That wee cunt has to wait for his poxy Independent or Guardian or whatever commie shite he reads.
2004		J. Ellroy ‘Jungletown Jihad’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 334: She couldn’t opt to offend him. She couldn’t call him on his Commie jive.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 123: Nixon changed [...] The old Commie-hater opened relations with China.
2020		(con. 1991-94) W. Boyle City of Margins 107: ‘He fucking draws on Vlad, shoots at his feet, says, “Dance, you commie stooge”’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 152: The one snag with Bottom was that he had some dangerous commie ideas.