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straight leg
straight leg n. U.S. Military slang a member of the ground staff as opposed to one of the flying personnel (see also quot. 1967).
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1951 Sun (Baltimore) 24 July 17/3 Witnessing the maneuver from the sidelines were a number of anxious ground officers or ‘straight legs’.
1967 Everybody's Mag. (Austral.) 18 Jan. 36/2 Today, in Vietnam, Australians are again catching up on American Army slang... An airborne soldier is called a Trooper, and he knows his counter-part on the ground as a Straight-leg.
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