frogman
Americannoun
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frogmen
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noun
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Origin of frogman
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He received military training in several branches of Denmark’s armed forces including as a frogman in an elite naval unit.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
A by-the-book submarine commander must drop off and wait for a Navy frogman on a World War II mission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
Davidson apologized to Crenshaw, and the former frogman was also able to take a few jabs at the comedian during their segment.
From Fox News ● Aug. 13, 2019
At one point, a diver had to descend into a slurry wall—a frogman Santa wielding an underwater welding torch fifty feet down a chimney full of muck—to free up some steel that had got caught.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
He saw the wounded frogman fire his spear at Scotty.
From The Wailing Octopus by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
Yet Iran primarily sets mines using frogmen on small boats that resemble ordinary fishing vessels, an informal maritime militia of dinghies that is virtually impossible to identify and eliminate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
He can only admit this after he adopts a passel of fanged frogmen that he somehow finds charming.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2023
They were called combat swimmers, and frogmen; they developed a myth around them.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2022
The broadcaster added that rescue boats, frogmen and divers were deployed to search for the missing, but heavy downpours and undercurrents have hampered overnight rescue efforts.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2021
If you have been down in one of the old-fashioned diving suits which used to be standard in the Royal Navy before frogmen and free diving came along, you will know why divers move slowly.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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