Pantifa en · PROPN
Etymology
From mid-2017, a blend of panty + Antifa. See quotations and also the expression get one's panties in a bunch.
Meanings
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(Internet, derogatory) Antifa, specifically the North American movement that arose in the late 2010s.
Most people who support pantifa have never worked a day in their life
2017 December 12, Big Birb (@NotATrollAtAll_), Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025:And the police union’s newsletter refers to Antifa as a “police/military hate group,” calling it “PANTI-FA.” Get it? Panties!
2019 September 5, Yvonne Abraham, “A total lack of judgment”, in The Boston Globe, volume 296, number 67, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B1:Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent.
2021 January 12, Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, quoting online discussion, “FBI report warned of ‘war’ at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming violence”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2021:On January 5, 2021, in an email with the subject line “BLM from Baltimore,” a Capitol Police official in the Intelligence and Interagence Coordination Division forwarded a tweet to colleagues that warned of “Pantifa/bLM Balt/DC branches are already bussing in people to disturb January 6ᵗʰ.[…]”
2021 October 26, “Judicial Watch: January 6 Documents Show Park Police Expected Large Group to March on U.S. Capitol”, in Judicial Watch, Washington, D.C., →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2021:2017 August, reader comment on Black Bloc warning urges more violence against Canadian journalists I call then ‘Pantifa’ because they cover their faces with their Mom's Old Underwear!
You are a pantifa? Panty Fascist]
[2017 September 8, reader comment on Eric Bolling Out at Fox News