jarheadn.

1906 Fayetteville (N. Carolina) Weekly Observer 1 Mar. 2/6 I see Mr. Sidney Cain is at home plowing his jar-head.

1916 Washington Post 1 July 5/2 Everyone has heard of the army ‘jarhead’ and his wiles, and the army man who attempts to teach the mule his job of hauling the guns, has a genuine proposition of life and near death facing him.

1930 L. H. Nason Corporal Once 32 Move out, Jar-head!

1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 18 Hardtail, a derogatory name for a mule. Others were jarhead and jughead.

1992 O. A. Burns Leaving Cold Sassy (1994) iv. 47 ‘Now they're worried about the Army's draftin' jarheads.’ ‘Jarheads?’ asked Campbell Junior. ‘I'm talkin' about mules, son.’

1942 Pittsburgh Courier 18 July 7 When a jar-head lightly speils..just listen..and just wait.

1969 S. N. Spetz Rat Pat Six 72 Not the company, jarhead, just us.

1987 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 27 Sept. (Mag. section) 42 The mathclass jarhead who threw up with anxiety at the sight of long division.

1999 J. Lethem Motherless Brooklyn (2000) 87 We jarheads could meet Minna's bride if we got ourselves haircuts first.

1931 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 17 Sept. 12/1 The stars of the Army eleven have already begun to show their wares. The big gun of the Jarhead attack is Nodgie Ganuzzi, for the last five years premier halfback on West Coast Army elevens.

1933 Leatherneck May 38 It took three days and a squad of ‘jarheads’ to get them and their baggage moved to the troop class.

1944 Reader's Digest Sept. 76 A ‘jar-head’ is a Marine.

1964 C. Howe Valley of Fire 36 They think I'm a rear-rank jarhead.

1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) ix. 110 ‘Colonel, it has been a pleasure for this squid to work with you.’ ‘It hasn't been half bad for this jarhead.’

2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 93 A tall and pretty blonde stood between the grunts,..cussing the Marine Corps and every dumb jarhead in the bastard.