| 单词 | rock happy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock happy rock happy adj. Military slang (originally U.S.) mentally disturbed as a result of serving for an extended period on a (Pacific) island; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > shell-shock, etc. shell-shocked1915 flak-happy1938 bomb-happy1943 rock happy1943 sand-happy1943 bushed1952 1943 Long Beach (Calif.) Independent 23 Dec. 10/3 Just the other day approximately 20 men sat in the barracks at this post and cried, ‘You rock happy jerk!’ at a simple soldier who leaned over his bunk and kissed his girl's picture. 1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 9 May 12/1 GI's..were growing rock happy from too long internment on a coral island. 1975 Los Angeles Times 20 July f3 What's wrong with it [sc. an island off Nova Scotia]? It's no place for singles—you'd go rock happy in a week. 1981 E. B. Sledge With Old Breed 31 Most of the griping about being ‘rock happy’ and bored in the Pacific came from men stationed at the big rear-echelon bases like Hawaii or New Caledonia. 2008 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 10 Jan. 7 It is a desolate place that was known to send lighthouse-keepers on station there ‘rock happy’. < as lemmas |
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