Greenpeacer

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English

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Etymology

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From Greenpeace +‎ -er.

Noun

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Greenpeacer (plural Greenpeacers)

  1. (informal) A member of the environmental organisation Greenpeace.
    • 1986, Guy Wright, Sons and Seals: A Voyage to the Ice:
      A gnawing worry that I would be taken for a Greenpeacer, or that someone would point me out as a fraud and throw me off the ship unnerved me.
    • 1992, Richard Ellis, Men and Whales:
      The Soviets, who first saw the Greenpeacers as some sort of nutty California excursion boat, saw no reason to fear this misguided troop of whale-lovers...
    • 2009, William Deverell, Snow Job, page 304:
      Also coming home for the weekend was his eighteen-year-old Greenpeacer, who was threatening not to vote for him.