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Gedunk -- Refers to snack foods, such as candy and chips, as well as the place they're sold. Associated with the Navy and can be used in the phrase "gedunk sailor" as a pejorative remark for inexperienced sailors. Gofasters -- A term for sneakers used in the Army, Navy and Marine...
The first list of definitions was written by someone in the Army, the intent was to help ‘Cherries’ understand some of the military slang en-route to war. The second grouping is mostly inherent to ‘Marine speak’ and some ‘Navy’. Finally, the last group lists Artillery terms, which ...
Quoting verbatim from the dictionary: "navy or black sleeveless singlet worn esp. by shearers, rural workers etc. [John Howe, champion Queensland shearer (d. 1920)]" See the definition for singlet below.jelly gelatin dessert (equivalent to Jello). One of the all-time favorites here is an ...
1914 G.D. Chase ‘Navy Sl.’ in DN IV: ii 150: devil teaser, n. Chaplain. In the context of gambling devil’s bedpost (n.) (also devil’s bedposts) [note whist jargon devil’s bedstead, the 13th card of whichever suit has been led] the four of clubs, considered to be unluck...
1870 E. Greey Queen’s Sailors III 90: You precious half-starved, dog-faced, greasy-looking miserables, what are you kow-towing there for? 1888 N. Devon Jrnl 12 Jan. 2/5: The prisoner [was] coarsely abusing him in an undertone, such words as ‘dog-face’ and ‘d— rogue’ being...
In 1869, tinned mutton was introduced as rations in the British Navy. Far from being a tasty cut of meat, sailors complained their food was so awful they suspected it was the dismembered body of Fanny Adams. Soon the grotesque joke had spread so far that tinned mutton was referred to as...
Battle Breakfast.A Navy term referring to the heavy breakfast of steak and eggs commonly given to sailors and Marines on the morning of a combat operation. Battle Watch.To do one’s best under difficult circumstances. Bayonet Course.Hospital treatment for venereal diseases. “Bayonet” refers to...
SALT FARE, NORTH SEA The British Navy, guardian of the sea-bound British establishment, almost became its destroyer when sailors demanded rights in the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797. Sailors were always the archetypal enemy within; the word strike comes from militant sailors’ tendenc...
1946 P. Cooper Navy Nurse 83: The sailors lolled on the back of the ship, ‘nigger fishing’ with a banana or a piece of dead fish on the line. 1956 J.R. Rayford Whistlin’ Woman and Crowin’ Hen 170: So we come back in from the Gulf around to West Point, there on Dauphin ...