counterdemonstrator
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
counterdemonstrator (plural counterdemonstrators)
- Someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time
- 1988 June 3, Elliot Zashin, “Demonstration: An Incomplete Picture”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- I don't condone the crude and racist slogans that spontaneous counterdemonstrators yelled at the pro-Palestinian protestors.