zek
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- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 3
Definition of zek
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.
“Every prisoner who recants is a potential influence on other zeks to do likewise.”
“There are the zeks, the survivors of the gulags, some honest about their experiences, others still deluded or traumatised decades later.”
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Etymology
From Russian зэ́к (zɛ́k), probably representing a pronunciation of з/к (z/k), Soviet abbreviation of заключённый каналоармеец (zaključónnyj kanaloarmejec, “prisoner member of the [White Sea–Baltic] Canal army”).
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