agit-prop

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See also: agit prop and agitprop

English

Noun

agit-prop (countable and uncountable, plural agit-props)

  1. Alternative form of agitprop

Verb

agit-prop (third-person singular simple present agit-props, present participle agit-propping, simple past and past participle agit-propped)

  1. Alternative form of agitprop
    • 1990 December 20, Mel Gussow, “Review/Theater; apartheid re-echoes in a musical rendering of a strike’s bitterness”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, section C, page 11, column 1:
      More an insecure platform for Mr. [Mbongeni] Ngema's didacticism than a play with a life of its own, "Township Fever" is agit-propped with polemical sloganeering.
    • 1993, Instauration, Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Howard Allen Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
      The double agent was Grant Bristow, who agit-propped for—not against—the right-wing Heritage Front and is now hiding in a safe house.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian агитпро́п (agitpróp).

Pronunciation

Noun

agit-prop m or f (invariable)

  1. agitprop

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