adj. of or pertaining to Bolsheviks or bolshevism. Bolshevik Revolution
Syn. -- bolshevik. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Russian bol'shevik fr. bol'she more + -vik, a person, i.e. one who is a member of the majority (in the revolutionary Russian parliament). ] 1. a member of the extreme left wing of the Social Democratic Party that seized power in Russia in 1917 after the Russian October Revolution, and advocated rule by the proletariat and state ownership of property. Actually in the minority, this branch seized the opportunity, when the moderate group walked out, to proclaim themselves a majority and form a government. They prevailed in the subsequent civil war. [ PJC ]

2. same as communist, especially used of Russian communists. [ PJC ]

3. anyone with communist leanings or sympathies; -- used very loosely in a derogatory sense by some people with economically conservative views. [ PJC ]

{ } n.; pl. Kivikivies (&unr_;), Kiwikiwies (Zool.) Any species of Apteryx, esp. Apteryx australis; -- so called in imitation of its notes. More commonly called kiwi. See Apteryx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. vīkingr, fr. vīk a bay, inlet. ] One belonging to the pirate crews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of grim Vikings, and the rapture
Of the sea fight, and the capture,
And the life of slavery. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Viking differs in meaning from sea king, with which it is frequently confounded. “The sea king was a man connected with a royal race, either of the small kings of the country, or of the Haarfager family, and who, by right, received the title of king as soon he took the command of men, although only of a single ship's crew, and without having any land or kingdom . . . Vikings were merely pirates, alternately peasants and pirates, deriving the name of viking from the vicks, wicks, or inlets, on the coast in which they harbored with their long ships or rowing galleys.” Laing. [ 1913 Webster ]