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demob, n. and v.|diːˈmɒb|
Colloq. abbrev. of demobilization and of demobilize v. Also attrib., as in demob suit, a suit issued to a soldier upon demobilization.
1920Glasgow Herald 2 June 11 Some young soldiers..who had been recently demobbed. 1921Ibid. 5 Feb. 7 The unemployed demobbed men. 1922W. J. Locke Tale of Triona v. 56 The impecunious demobbed. 1923T. S. Eliot Waste Land ii. 11 When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said..Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. 1934M. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang, Demob, to demobilize; demobilization. 1945News Chron. 17 May, No more Bevin boys will be directed to the pits, but those already there will have to remain until the time comes for them to be demobbed according to age and length of service, just as if they were soldiers. 1945Daily Mirror 11 Aug. 3 (headline) It's ‘total’ demob. now—Many home by year's end. 1949B. Boland in J. C. Trewin Plays of Yr. 1948–49 58, I know one of the places where I don't want to spend my demob. leave. 1949G. Cotterell Randle in Springtime 282 The mockery of the black Homburgs and umbrellas, the demob suits, whose patterns one often recognised [etc.]. 1959‘B. Mather’ Achilles Affair 101 Jo had not long been demobbed from the Wrens.
▸ demob happy adj. chiefly Brit. deliriously excited or elated because of (impending) release from a job, assignment, posting, etc.
1958J. P. Masterton in R. A. Hamilton Ventures to Arctic viii. 140 Everybody was ‘*demob-happy’, packing up equipment and itching to go home. 1982Financial Times (Nexis) 30 July 12, I do not expect much to come of all this as demob-happy MPs come to the summer recess. 2002J. Cartwright White Lightning iii. 18 He is moving on to a Jane Austen after this, with a proper budget, and he is demob happy. |