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Greenpeacer en · NOUN

Etymology

From Greenpeace + -er.

Meanings

1. (informal) A member of the environmental organisation Greenpeace.
   • The Soviets, who first saw the Greenpeacers as some sort of nutty California excursion boat, saw no reason to fear this misguided troop of whale-lovers... 1992, Richard Ellis, Men and Whales:
   • Also coming home for the weekend was his eighteen-year-old Greenpeacer, who was threatening not to vote for him. 2009, William Deverell, Snow Job, page 304:
   • A gnawing worry that I would be taken for a Greenpeacer, or that someone would point me out as a fraud and throw me off the ship unnerved me. 1986, Guy Wright, Sons and Seals: A Voyage to the Ice:

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