crypto-Communist

noun

cryp·​to-Communist

¦krip(ˌ)tō+

: one who secretly sympathizes with communism or is secretly a member of the Communist party

Word History

Etymology

crypt- + Communist

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

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