单词 | army slang |
释义 | > as lemmasarmy slang (a) General attributive, as army regulations, army slang, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are entered separately at Compounds 1a(b). ΚΠ 1660 O. Cromwell's Thankes to Ld. Gen. 13 He turn'd an Army-blade, Till honest George them Fools had made, And brought the Rump in scent. 1663 J. Heath Hist. Cromwell 12 [Cromwell] packs up a Juncto of Army Blades..who constitute a High Court of Justice. 1789 T. Holcroft tr. King Frederick II Posthumous Wks. IX. clvii. 287 I am going to..change the army regulations. 1820 House of Representatives Doc. (16th Congress 2nd Sess.) No. 45. 11 The articles marked thus (*) in this section (VI.) to be copied out of the blue book containing the present army regulations. 1891 C. Dawson Let. 19 Feb. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1967) I. Compan. i. v. 228 I was so glad to hear you had successfully passed the ‘Army Prelim’, allow me to congratulate you. 1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/1 Regimental, an Old Army adjective for a strict disciplinarian. 1967 Everybody's Mag. (Austral.) 18 Jan. 36/2 Today, in Vietnam, Australians are again catching up on American Army slang. 1983 Sunday Times 30 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 39/4 Army regulations appear to have been altered to permit convicted ‘refuseniks’ to be served with new call-up orders the moment they leave prison. 1986 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 14/5 To a New Zealander, sandbag duff is army pudding made from ground biscuit. 2012 New Yorker 17 Dec. 54/2 Its principles were incorporated into Army doctrine. < as lemmas |
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