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bad paper

American  

noun

Slang.
  1. a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.


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A friend eventually hired him to work at a photo-booth company, and Goldsmith began contacting members of Congress to press for health care for veterans with bad paper.

From Washington Times ● May 25, 2018

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, citing her bad paper, denied her a veteran’s license plate.

From Time ● May 18, 2016

That’s what Robert Szczerba should have written, if he’d looked at the real science instead of one really bad paper.

From Forbes ● Jan. 20, 2015

Professor Meltzer deduces that the gold standard doesn’t work for one country alone; the bad paper money corrupts the good.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2011

"There's so much bad paper going about, we can't possibly accommodate you," was the discouraging reply; so I was compelled patiently to submit to the detention.

From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

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