nazi

comparative more nazi · superlative most nazi

1. alternativeAlternative form of Nazi.

   Auschwitz was a nazi concentration camp.

plural nazis

1. alternativeAlternative form of Nazi.

   The most prominent and well-known nazi was Adolf Hitler.

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   I tried to get into the club, but the door nazi threw me out.

plural Nazis · alternative Natsi · alternative notsee

1. historicalA member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP).First known use 1930

   After World War II, many Nazis fled to South American countries like Argentina and Chile to escape prosecution.

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   Taiwan fears Xi Jinping has been inspired by Adolf Hitler's tactics, and is calling on our federal government to take action, warning a Chinese invasion would allow Beijing to rule the world by weaponising its computer chip industry. The Taiwanese Deputy Foreign Minister compared the sector to the Czech armaments which boosted the capability of the Nazis in World War II.

   2025 August 25, 0:00 from the start, in Taiwan warns of Chinese invasion and chip industry domination, Seven News, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2025

   Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “crown jurist” and political theorist, Carl Schmitt, in the Trump administration’s domestic policies, particularly his doctrine of “the exception”, which can be used to suspend certain constitutional rights.

   2026 January 16, Brendan Simms, “Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2026

   Synonyms: Fascist · Antonyms: antifascist, anti-Nazi

2. colloquialA person associated with Nazi Germany.

   Our city was occupied by Nazis during World War II.

3. colloquialOne who advocates neo-Nazism.
4. derogatoryoffensiveslangsometimesusuallysee usage notes belowOne who imposes their views on others; one who is unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict. (also frequently uncapitalised: nazi)First known use 1960s

   She's a total grammar Nazi.

comparative more Nazi · superlative most Nazi

1. historicalOf or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.

   Antonyms: anti-Nazi

   1. colloquialhistoricalOf or pertaining to the Third Reich and Nazi Germany.

      There was Nazi soldiers all over the frontline.

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      They have good reason to fear them too, for their machine gun strafing, their rockets, and their bombs knock out Nazi bridges, trucks, tanks, and kill them by the score.

      1944, United States Office of War Information, Press Release Labor Press Service, page 1

      The second development was the program for the redesign (Neugestaltung) of several German cities as representative Nazi cities.

      1993, Jeffry Diefendorf, chapter 5, in In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 116

      It was reminiscent of the rallies held by Adolph Hitler during the 1930s-1940s before adoring crowds in Nazi Germany. At many of these Nazi rallies, the German participants swore personal allegiance to their nation’s leader-Adolph Hitler over and above their own Nation-Germany.

      2020 November 19, Richard Weintraub, “Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk | For What It's Worth”, in Pocono Record, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2021

      Antonyms: anti-Nazi

2. broadlyDomineering, totalitarian, or intolerant.

   Synonyms: fascist

1. The language (ideological jargon) of Nazis.

   All this requires some very careful unpacking, for obviously, Dr. Bosse is “speaking Nazi with the Bormann dialect.”

   2008, Joseph P. Farrell, Nazi International, →ISBN

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   He must write and speak “Nazi”, which is essentially anti-scientific' (Schreiber 1935a: 79). Falk Ruttke's presentation was illustrative in this sense. Ruttke was a member of the Reich Committee for Public Health Policy, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for Population and Racial Policy at the Reich Interior Ministry. Ruttke told the participants that after Hitler's accession to power, the 'knowledge of genetic laws was invoked towards the creation of a healthy race,...'

   2014, Marius Turda, Aaron Gillette, Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective, →ISBN, page 123

   What is pertinent is that it was possible to effectively speak Nazi to Nazis and then become an “innocent nationalist” during the Cold War. Kubiiovych's truth, if any, was that he mastered both. Pragmatism and brutality thus meshed seamlessly. For Kubiiovych, developing the Ukrainian cooperative system under Germans would not only strengthen the Ukrainian economy but also protect Ukrainian peasants from Jewish exploitation.

   2015, Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City, →ISBN

2. derogatoryoffensiverareThe German language.

   In Hitler's Own Words: Shut up, Yank — learn to speak NAZI!

   1941 October 19, FFF advertisement in The New York Times (as quoted in 2004, Martin J. Manning, Herbert Romerstein, Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda, page 104)

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   He pushed aside his ponytailed minion and stepped right up to Tank, who gave him a perplexed look as he barked a few words in guttural German. “I don't speak Nazi,” Tank said.

   2013, Jennifer Lane, On Best Behavior

   “This is all sounding very pretty, Shaw,” Spencer checks his watch. “But how about you share what's being said for the rest of us who don't speak Nazi.”

   2016, Jessica Holbrook, The Perfect Descent, page 158