Usually means: Paramilitary wing of Nazi Party.
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  1. brownshirt: Merriam-Webster
  2. Brownshirt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Brownshirt: Vocabulary.com
  4. Brownshirt, brownshirt: Wordnik
  5. Brownshirt, brownshirt: Wiktionary
  6. brownshirt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. brownshirt (brown shirt): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. brownshirt: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. brownshirt: Dictionary.com
  10. Brownshirt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Brownshirt: Rhymezone
  12. brownshirt: FreeDictionary.org
  13. brownshirt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Brownshirt: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. brownshirt: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Brownshirt)

noun:  (historical) A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung.
noun:  Any member of a fascist party; any person accused of being neofascist or neo-Nazi.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Brownshirt [(historical) A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung.]

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