Meanings
nounKossack (plural Kossacks)
plural Kossacks
- InternetUSgovernmentA member of the leftist US blogging community Daily Kos.
Opined one Kossack: "His blood is also on Bush's hands."
2005 March 2, Dean Barnett, “Kos Party”, in The Weekly Standard1 more example
The Kingpin had instructed his Kossack cultists to support Brown's Democratic primary rival, Paul Hackett.
2006 June 25, David Brooks, “Respect Must Be Paid”, in The New York Times
Origin
From Daily Kos (derived in turn from Kos, nickname of the blog's founder Markos Moulitsas) and cossack.
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