chetniks

Noun

chetnik (plural chetniks)

1. (historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
   • Since most Chetniks only wanted to fight close to their homes, a mobile army that could carry out sustained campaigns under central command never developed.2002, John K Cox, The History of Serbia, page 95
2. An adherent of a nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.
   • The Visegrad gathering, which saw uniform-wearing participants singing songs that included lines such as "there will be hell, the Drina will be bloody, here come the Chetniks from the Serb mountains’, provoked wariness and fear among Bosniak residents who survived some of the worst atrocities...2019 March 11, Mersiha Gadzo, “Serb Chetnik gathering in Bosnia’s Visegrad raises alarm”, in Al Jazeera