Military slang

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Military slang is an array of colloquial

Acronym slang in the U.S. Military

A number of military slang terms are

Terms then end up being used in other industries as these GIs complete their services. For example, FUBAR evolved into Foobar as GIs coming home from World War II matriculated into Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the first written use from a club at MIT called the Tech Model Railroad Club.^[2]

See also

• List of U.S. government and military acronyms
  • List of U.S. Air Force acronyms and expressions
  • List of U.S. Marine Corps acronyms and expressions
  • List of U.S. Navy acronyms and expressions
• Army creole
• Grande Armée slang (French Army slang during the Napoleonic Wars)
• Vertidue
• Voice procedure
• Junjiahua, also known as "military speech", a collection of scattered modern day Chinese dialects derived from the lingua franca of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) military

References

Further reading

• Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York:
  ISBN 0-19-509514-6
  .
• Jacobson, Gary (August 14, 1994). "Humor best way to remove last of 'Bohicans' resistance". The Dallas Morning News. p. 7H. Retrieved 7 November 2008.
• Stromberg, Rich (May 10, 2005). "Grab your ankles and say BOHICA". UWIRE. Retrieved 7 November 2008.^{[dead link]}

External links

Look up Appendix:Glossary of military slang or :Category:Military slang by language in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Glossary of Military Terms & Slang from the Vietnam War
• Military Terms of the Modern Era
• Military Slang Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Aviation Slang-Pilot Slang
• The dictionary definition of Appendix:Australian English military slang at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of Appendix:Canadian military slang at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of Appendix:U.S. Navy slang at Wiktionary