"CCCP" meaning in English

See CCCP in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /si.si.si.piː/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-CCCP.wav
Etymology: Orthographic borrowing from Russian СССР (SSSR), abbreviation of Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (Sojuz Sovetskix Socialističeskix Respublik, “(The) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”). Etymology templates: {{obor|en|ru|СССР}} Orthographic borrowing from Russian СССР (SSSR) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} CCCP
  1. (nonstandard) USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Tags: nonstandard
    Sense id: en-CCCP-en-name-ab1GEYlg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

IPA: /si.si.si.piː/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-CCCP.wav
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} CCCP
  1. Initialism of Central Committee of the Communist Party. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Central Committee of the Communist Party
    Sense id: en-CCCP-en-name-l8ngUKkW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with 3 consecutive instances of the same letter, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms with 3 consecutive instances of the same letter: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 20 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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          "ref": "1992 July 27, Keith Morgan, “NATO/Warsaw Pact forces (was Re: Greatest Prez...)”, in soc.history (Usenet):",
          "text": "Now that the CCCP is history. I wonder if we'll find out who Suvorov really was.",
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          "ref": "2008, Martin Avery, Bobby Orr and Me, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 353:",
          "text": "Canada won the 1972 Summit Series against the CCCP, just barely, but lost a lot of face, bragging rights, prestige, sense of self, identity, and propaganda points, even though life in the Soviet Union, judging by the big hockey rink in Moscow, was dismal, at best, and a totalitarian police state nightmare, at worst.",
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          "ref": "2011 September 21, A Moose in Love, “Re: The Soviet invasion of Poland”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):",
          "text": "The CCCP had evil intentions as well[,] no?",
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          "text": "2013, Tom Hanks, introduction to Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by Alexei Leonov and David Scott, Open Road Media →ISBN\nA common generalisation about people who go into space, particularly those men who were the participants in the great space race between the USA and the CCCP, is that each is an automaton — a throttle jockey with a crew cut, a mind like a slide rule and a vocabulary of 'gee whiz' superlatives and 'A-OK' affirmatives."
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          "ref": "2014, Larisa Kharakhinova, Heart-to-heart letters: to MrRight from CCCP, Litres, →ISBN, page 22:",
          "text": "One question from Japanese side was: 'What about sex in CCCP?' and 'the illustrious reply' — one soviet woman, very venerable and respectable, deputy and laureate of something, — she answered with dignity: 'There is no sex in CCCP at all!' — it was said with such a great pride, in such a peremptory tone, as if she was insulted in her best feelings, — both sides, both countries split their sides with laughter.",
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