Popski

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proper noun

British special forces officer Vladimir Peniakoff.

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Meanings

proper nounPopski (plural Popskis)

plural Popskis

  1. World War II; nickname; World War II; nicknameBritish special forces officer Vladimir Peniakoff.

    [S]abotage and guerrilla attack, unofficially supported by the Allies, he later recorded in his first book: Popski : a Life of Brigadier Vladimir Peniakoff (1954).

    2003, Anna Davin, Nick Jacobs, “John Willett (1917-2002)”, in History Workshop Journal, number 56, pages 301-06
  2. datedOne who operates independently.

    Soon Ridley and Arnold and all the rest were calling themselves Hardy’s Lot, speaking of Hardy as though he were another Popski and they his private army.

    1977, Olivia Manning, chapter 7, in The Danger Tree
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