Cossack

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A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above).
(label) A Ukrainian.
(rfv-sense) (label) A mercenary; a regular or irregular soldier employed to persecute or oppress disfavoured groups, or in massacres of such groups, such as in anti-Jewish pogroms; a officer or private guard, particularly one used in strike-breaking; a violent thug.
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*(quote-av)|actor=(w)|role=Ens. Pavel Chekov|title=(w)|location=Culver City, Calif.|publisher=(w); distributed by Television|year=1969|year_published=1969|passage=COMMANDER KANG (Michael Ansara): We have no devil, Kirk. But we understand the habits of yours. I shall torture you to death one by one until your noble captain cries enough. Who will be firstCHEKOV (Walter Koenig): Cossacks! Filthy Klingon murderers! You killed my brother Piotr. The Archanis Four research outpost. A hundred peaceful people massacred! Just like you did here. My brother, you killed my brother.
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