agit-prop

A form of agitprop — Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Meanings

nounagit-prop (countable and uncountable, plural agit-props)

plural agit-props

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of agitprop.
verbagit-prop (third-person singular simple present agit-props, present participle agit-propping, simple past and past participle agit-propped)

present singular third person agit-props · participle present agit-propping · participle past agit-propped · past agit-propped

  1. alternativeAlternative form of agitprop.

    The double agent was Grant Bristow, who agit-propped for—not against—the right-wing Heritage Front and is now hiding in a safe house.

    1993, Instauration, Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Howard Allen Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1
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    More an insecure platform for Mr. [Mbongeni] Ngema's didacticism than a play with a life of its own, "Township Fever" is agit-propped with polemical sloganeering.

    1990 December 20, Mel Gussow, “Review/Theater; apartheid re-echoes in a musical rendering of a strike’s bitterness”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, section C, page 11, column 1
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