crusaders

Noun

crusader (plural crusaders)

1. (historical) A fighter or participant in the medieval Crusades.
   • Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one, while in the case of monk and crusader there must have been a sustaining purpose, and possibly a great abnegation, a leaving of lands and...1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
2. (figuratively) A person engaged in a crusade.
3. (derogatory) An American, especially a soldier or leader who wages war against Islamist militants.
   • Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, which has exceeded 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content...1998, Osama Bin Ladenhttps://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm
4. (derogatory, slur) A Westerner; a Christian, especially of European descent or a missionary.
5. (derogatory) (either attributively or in the plural) The United States and its Western allies.