Kossack
English
editEtymology
editFrom Daily Kos (derived in turn from Kos, nickname of the blog's founder Markos Moulitsas) and cossack.
Noun
editKossack (plural Kossacks)
- (US, politics, Internet slang) A member of the leftist US blogging community Daily Kos.
- 2005 March 2, Dean Barnett, “Kos Party”, in The Weekly Standard[1]:
- Opined one Kossack: "His blood is also on Bush's hands."
- 2006 June 25, David Brooks, “Respect Must Be Paid”, in The New York Times[2]:
- The Kingpin had instructed his Kossack cultists to support Brown's Democratic primary rival, Paul Hackett.