Bircher

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Birch·er

(bûr′chər) also Birch·ist (-chĭst) or Birch·ite (-chīt′)

A member or supporter of the John Birch Society, an anti-Communist organization founded in 1958.

[After John Birch (1918-1945), Indian-born American missionary and intelligence officer.]

Birch′ism n.

Birch′ist, Birch′ite adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Bircher

(ˈbɜːtʃə) ,

Birchist

Birchite

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a member or supporter of the John Birch Society

ˈBirchˌism n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Birch•er

(ˈbɜr tʃər)

n.

a member or advocate of the John Birch Society.

[1960–65, Amer.]

References in periodicals archive ?

"Once the official and more 'responsible' faces of American conservatism turned away from Birchism, they never looked back."

Extremism and moderation

Among the various strains of Texas right-wingism (it is factually incorrect to call it conservatism) is some leftover loony John Birchism, now morphed into militias; country-club economic conservatism, a la George Bush pere; and the usual batty antigovernment strain.

Is Texas America? The fact is, the state that George W. Bush calls home is a damned peculiar place

Flynn ; the John Birch Society; the Bilderbergers; Fidel Castro; Martin Luther King; China; and an arresting account of McManus' personal journey from Buckleyism to Birchism.

Putting the Pied Piper in perspective: tapped by the Establishment to lead the conservative movement astray, William F. Buckley, Jr. has enjoyed undeserved status as the political Right's leading apostle. (Book Review)

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