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Bircher

Pronunciation: /ˈbəːtʃə/
Definition of Bircher

noun

  • a member or supporter of the John Birch Society, an extreme right-wing and anti-communist American organization founded in 1958.

Origin:

from the name of John Birch, a USAF officer and ‘first casualty of the Cold War’, killed by Chinese communists in 1945

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