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 singing Navy frogman spots sunken treasure and returns later with help to retrieve it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2021
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
Rick and Scotty watched Jimmy Kelly check the diving equipment of the frogman teams lined up on the destroyer escort's deck.
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
Office of Strategic Services to help train underwater demolition teams, or frogmen.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2022
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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