squaddie
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English
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[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]squaddie (plural squaddies)
- (slang, British) A private in the army.
- 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 117:
- He'll turn out to be a squaddie— a Muslim squaddie. Exactly the kind of victim they're looking for.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 164:
- Hard men from the high flats and off-dutie squaddies threw back their pints shoulder to shoulder in its spartan public bar.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “squaddie”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “squaddie, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “squaddie”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “squaddie” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.