brigader

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noun

A member of a brigade.

OriginEnglish brigade ← French brigade ← Middle French brigade →
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Meanings

nounbrigader (plural brigaders)

plural brigaders

  1. A member of a brigade.
  2. InternetOne who engages in coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing.

    Early on, an influx of brigaders came from 4chan's /pol board, and its Reddit counterpart, r/pol. There was more crossover of /pol users to Reddit after 4chan was abandoned by its creator, Chris Poole, in January 2015, […]

    2018, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreg-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrégeti
  3. Proto-Germanic*brekanąder.?
  4. Italianbriga
  5. Italianbrigare
  6. Italianbrigata
  7. Middle Frenchbrigade
  8. Frenchbrigade
  9. Englishbrigade
  10. Englishbrigader

From brigade + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

abridger
Cite this entry
APA

brigader. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brigader

MLA

“brigader.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brigader. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brigader,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brigader.

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