Granarchist

Quick meaning: Granarchist is a noun meaning (UK, informal) An older woman who espouses radical or militant political views.

Meaning

(UK, informal) An older woman who espouses radical or militant political views.

Example Sentences

Joan used her advancing age to her advantage with the media and as one of Cambridge's wonderfully infamous 'granarchists', she staged sit-ins, hunger strikes and chained herself to #railings.

The anti-live exports campaigns saw animal rights move out of the anarcho-punk ghetto and become a street movement which ranged across generations (the so-called granarchists with their eldritch scream of “Eeeevil”).

But what if feeding pigeons reveals contours of a large-scale affective militancy among older people in the public space? When as "granarchists" they pursue their publicly condemned practice of feeding the pigeons, old women really do take on joggers, park wardens, and the like.

Word Forms

• granarchists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include matriarch, architectress, gynocrat, sextremist, manarchist, matriarchist.

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