Hitler

1. A surname from Austrian German, notably borne by Austrian-born German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889–1945).

   Karma police, arrest this girl / Her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill

   1997, “Karma Police”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead

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   The British ruling class are fighting against Hitler, whom they have always regarded and whom some of them still regard as their protector against Bolshevism. That does not mean that they will deliberately sell out; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter, pull their punches, do the wrong thing. Until the Churchill Government called some sort of halt to the process, they have done the wrong thing with an unerring instinct ever since 1931.

   1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II

   Clearly, Hitler saw his historical function as a Wagnerian grand opera. Vast cosmic changes required an accompaniment of slaughter on a colossal scale.

   1949 September 4, H. R. Trevor-Roper, “Hitler Reappraised, Ten Years After”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2025

   What is one curious about when he asks, What is evil? The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil.

   1964, David Hugh Freeman, A Philosophical Study of Religion, page 241

   […]the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler has to be different after Hitler’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on Hitler’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; it is not manifest that there must have been a real change of mind on God's side. And Aquinas can say this[…]

   1977, Peter Thomas Geach, Providence and Evil, page 41

   Mueller is even less convincing in his suggestion that World War II might never have happened if Hitler had never been born.

   1994, Karen A. Rasler, William R. Thompson, The great powers and global struggle, 1490-1990

plural Hitlers

1. derogatoryoffensiveOne who is dictatorial or excessively bossy; often used as a term of abuse.

   A: Don't you think you could try sorting your rubbish instead of tossing everything out together? B: Ok, Hitler.

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   How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler?

   1986, William Borman, Gandhi and Non-Violence

   tfw you could be starving and wanting to feed your family, but gender Hitler says no males for this job because a vagina makes you 'special'

   2017 April 13, @DatingSims, Twitter (post)

   “He was called a ‘little Hitler’ yesterday,” Stevens said. “A guy pointed at him in his car and then he said that we didn’t like brown people. I don’t understand that at all.”

   2019 February 18, Tulsi Kamath, “Boy, 7, called ‘little Hitler’ for raising money for Wall, mom says”, in KXAN, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2020

   Synonyms: Stalin