NAZI

The full name of the party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (English: National Socialist German Workers' Party) and they officially used the acronym NSDAP.

The term "nazi" had been in use, before the rise of the NSDAP, as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backwards farmer or peasant.

It characterised an awkward and clumsy person, a yokel.

Nazi /ˈnɑːtsi/ noun

plural Nazis

Britannica Dictionary definition of NAZI

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1

: a member of a German political party that controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler

2

disapproving : an evil person who wants to use power to control and harm other people especially because of their race, religion, etc.

• a gang of racist Nazis

— see also neo-nazi

— Nazi

adjective

• Nazi ideology

— Nazism

/ˈnɑːtˌsɪzəm/ noun [noncount]