Dave Spart

plural Dave Sparts

1. UKA far left radical.

   We don't get many Dave Sparts these days chopping hands, invoking the working class and using the word "total" twice in every sentence.

   1992, New Statesman Society

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   Now every Dave Spart up the commune knows that basically, to his mind, the only, like, real theatre, man, is made by the people, you know, in the street, man, in the street.

   1981, Reyner Banham, Design by Choice, London: Academy Editions

   But of course there is no shortage of people with ingenious ideas about how public money should be spent, and Ken is quite right when he warns us about a whole new generation of Dave Sparts currently working up from the grass roots

   1984, The Spectator

   Like McGuinness, Wark's Left is populated by a cast of grotesques; of Dave Sparts who sleep with copies of Trotsky's Literature and Revolution tucked under their pillows.

   2000, Overland

   Synonyms: Spart