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Seabees, n. pl.|ˈsiːbiːz|
Also with lower-case initial.
[f. representation of initial letters of construction battalion + pl. -s.]
a. (Members of) the Construction Battalions formed as a volunteer branch of the Civil Engineer Corps of the U.S. Navy.
1942Army & Navy Jrnl. 21 Mar. 790/2 ‘Seabees’ is the new name chosen to designate the new Naval Construction Regiments... With the name an insignia has been adopted—a flying bee, fighting mad. On its head it sports a sailor hat. In its fore hand or leg it clutches a spitting ‘Tommy Gun’; in its amidship hand, a wrench, and in its aft hand, a carpenter's hammer. 1945D. Dempsey in Best One-Act Plays of 1944 21 I'm in the Seabees, which means I'm in the Navy. 1950‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xi. 90 ‘The Seabees are starting in here—’ he placed his pencil on the chart. 1960S. W. Roskill War at Sea III. i. 339 The ‘Seabees’ also proved themselves first-class fighting troops when the need arose. 1980G. V. Higgins Kennedy for Defense xix. 174 Some cops were in the Seabees, lotta cops was in the Army.
b. attrib. or as adj. (Sometimes in sing. form.)
1942Sun (Baltimore) 17 Nov. 13/3 Brief ceremonies attended by naval officers marked the placing in operation of the third ‘seabees’ center constructed in Virginia. 1977Hongkong Standard 12 Apr. 8/4 Of the 1,400 navy men here, more than 800 are seabee construction workers who will leave when the facility is completed. 1981G. V. Higgins Rat on Fire v. 35 You were running that Seabees reunion. |