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Uh... Yeah, it does. It literally defines the meaning and the context in which the term is used. Thats... how language works. Fundementally.
Goodness me, you are being difficult today.
I think you can appreciate, that no one user’s definition - no matter how agreeable you and I might find it - speaks to everyone’s definition of the same term.
Especially when we are talking about colloquial slur, like tankie, which isn’t in main dictionaries.
Sure, but it does speak to that user's definition, which is what they were talking about. And honestly, their definition is pretty much the standard. 'A pejorative term for supporters of authoritarian regimes, particularly communist ones' is the definition in some form across every site I've turned up in the thirty seconds I spent on this. It's what everyone else in this thread appears to be using. Seems like its pretty agreed on.