soixante-huitard

noun

Someone who took part in, or otherwise supported, the civil unrest in France in May 1968, characterised by student protests and widespread strikes.

OriginFrench soixante-huitard →
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Meanings

nounsoixante-huitard (plural soixante-huitards)

plural soixante-huitards

  1. historicalSomeone who took part in, or otherwise supported, the civil unrest in France in May 1968, characterised by student protests and widespread strikes.

    ‘Those clochards in Cannes, mostly old soixante-huitards. They see a tribute to modern industrial genius and can't resist giving it a swift kick.’

    2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 92
  2. broadlyA fierce social activist or protester.

    As far as he is concerned, the institutions that once made Britain great – from parliament to the ancient seats of learning, from monarchy and the common law to the Church of England – have all been hollowed out and subverted by cynical soixante-huitards.

    2012 October 26, Jonathan Rée, “The War We Never Fought by Peter Hitchens – review”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin

  1. Frenchsoixante-huitard
  2. Englishsoixante-huitard

Borrowed from French soixante-huitard (literally “sixty-eighter”).

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