rigidly adhering to military regulations and practices; regimented; spit-and-polish.
a platoon leader who tried to be more GI than anyone else.
of a standardized style or type issued by the U.S. armed forces.
GI shoes; GI blankets.
conforming to the regulations or practices of the U.S. armed forces.
Every recruit must get a GI haircut.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a U.S. enlisted person.
a typical peacetime GI complaint.
galvanized iron.
gastrointestinal.
general issue.
government issue.
gastrointestinal
glycaemic index
1970–75; shortening of Japanese jūdō-gi jujitsu garb, equivalent to jūdō judo + -gi, combining form of ki to wear
1915–20; originally abbreviation of galvanized iron, used in U.S. Army bookkeeping in entering articles (e.g., trash cans) made of it; later extended to all articles issued (as an assumed abbreviation of government issue ) and finally to soldiers themselves
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Photos from the event show Hardy donning a blue gi, wearing a blue belt, the second adult rank in jiu-jitsu, which often requires hundreds of hours of training to achieve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Many followed his mother's request to attend the ceremony wearing a gi, the uniform worn in Jiu-Jitsu.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2022
Karate, another first on the Olympics calendar, felt ground-breaking for a similar reason, with men and women wearing the sport’s classic gi.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
The gardening gi has been an unexpected hit.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
“Ugwuanyi,” she said, “you have to come home. Oga gi kwanu? Where is your master?”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I’ll be a focused fiction writer and a focused Gi student.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
Renowned illustrator Kim Jung Gi died Monday in Paris at age 47 after suffering a heart attack, the Daniel Maghen art gallery announced Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
As well as community service, the rapper has been ordered to stay away from the victims, identified as Jade and Baddie Gi, for three years.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2022
Friends and family took to the Internet shorty after Kobe and Gi Gi passed to celebrate how much he loved his daughters, and fans soon followed with their own.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2021
Medilding: K, M, Go, Gi 28 23 28 10.
From The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California by Cook, Sherburne Friend
That helps isolate the specific impacts of the GI Bill, the landmark 1944 law that effectively provided free college to millions of returning U.S. servicemen.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Athletes knew they needed to have carbohydrates, but there was also that risk of getting GI issues.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The GI Bill and the industrial boom drove the greatest project of mass education and mass consumption in world history.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
We need validated instruments for diagnosing functional GI disorders in patients on these drugs, so that adverse events stop being absorbed into the noise of “expected side effects.”
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026
But he knew, as soon as he arrived, that he did not need the sugar to cancel out his GI crewcut and his American smile.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
“But I remember not even lasting long enough to get a gi. And I don’t think John and Hayden even made it that far.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2022
“Your life belongs to you and you alone, soso gi. You will go back on Saturday. Let me hurry up and make some abacha for you to take.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nicolas Winding Refn directs this inscrutable yet mesmerizing thriller that follows the converging stories of an actress, an American G.I., and a mysterious murderer called the Leather Man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He later enrolled in what’s now Cal State L.A. under the G.I.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Universities were filled with veterans on the G.I.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025
It's been stopped in its tracks by a type of vortex first described in the 1920s by a brilliant physicist, Sir G.I.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024
“When you were little, you loved to play pretend. To be G.I. Joe or Barbie. This is the same thing. Playing pretend,” she says.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
“It was lugged home in some GI’s duffel bag, without its case.”
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
Anyway, after the bomb was dropped, the GI's who worked at the laboratory came up and shook my hand and said, “You were the person who stuck the hand of the great Enrico Fermi.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
“I am not suggesting for any moment that I know,” of the GI’s location, Gen. Harrison said Monday.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
The aircraft chase the GI’s informal prayer as reliably as the violins tail the piano in Chanda Dancy’s treacly score.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
We're the only Army GI's in this outfit and this is pretty plush.
From Sonny by Raphael, Rick
In theory, the law was “colorblind,” offering the same educational support to Black GIs as to white GIs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The German bases were the largest peacetime foreign deployment of American troops abroad, said Thomas Maulucci, history professor at the University of Connecticut who co-edited a book about American GIs in Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
"The soldiers who once called each other Redcoats and Yankees became the Tommies and the GIs who together saved the free world," he said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
None of the women went by “Tokyo Rose” — it was a composite, a nickname used by GIs who never knew how many there were.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
They even had GIs tending to flowers around some of the barracks and some doing the same kinds of details they would have been doing back in Devens or any stateside base.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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