Pantifa

From mid-2017, a blend of panty +‎ Antifa. See quotations and also the expression get one's panties in a bunch.

Pantifa

1. (Internet slang, derogatory) Antifa, specifically the North American movement that arose in the late 2010s.
   • 2017 August, reader comment on Black Bloc warning urges more violence against Canadian journalists

     I call then^[sic] ‘Pantifa’ because they cover their faces with their Mom's Old Underwear!

   • [2017 September 8, reader comment on Eric Bolling Out at Fox News:

     You are a pantifa? Panty Fascist]

   • 2017 December 12, Big Birb (@NotATrollAtAll_), Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 June 2025:

     Most people who support pantifa have never worked a day in their life

   • 2019 September 5, Yvonne Abraham, “A total lack of judgment”, in The Boston Globe, volume 296, number 67, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B1:

     And the police union’s newsletter refers to Antifa as a “police/military hate group,” calling it “PANTI-FA.” Get it? Panties!

   • 2019 December 4, Petra Link, Composition Notebook: PANTIFA! Always in a Bunch!‎^[2], →ISBN, archived from the original on 24 June 2025
   • 2021 January 12, Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, quoting online discussion, “FBI report warned of ‘war’ at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming violence”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 January 2021:

     Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent.

   • 2021 October 26, “Judicial Watch: January 6 Documents Show Park Police Expected Large Group to March on U.S. Capitol”, in Judicial Watch‎^[4], Washington, D.C., →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2021:

     On January 5, 2021, in an email with the subject line “BLM from Baltimore,” a Capitol Police official in the Intelligence and Interagence Coordination Division forwarded a tweet to colleagues that warned of “Pantifa/bLM Balt/DC branches are already bussing in people to disturb January 6^th. […]”