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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Then the boys — dressed in gi, posed in defiant stances — leap out of the frame.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
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
“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
Instead of walking the dog, I watch a short Gi video.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
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
Two-way athlete Petelo Gi is a key player for Serra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
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
Djishtangading: K, M, Go, Gi 13 9 11.
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
In an under-reported story, the GI Rights hotline, which helps service members understand their rights to discharge and responds to other concerns, has seen a large increase in calls.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
Ask whether your patient has any history of functional GI symptoms.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2026
The researchers believe these two functions help shield the GI tract from infection.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
My other best buddy—who coincidentally had the same first name, but let’s call him Tommy—lived on the other side of the woods in a pleasant working-class neighborhood made possible by the GI Bill.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
“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
Cigarroa, 28, could have tapped his G.I. benefits, which cover up to $30,000 in tuition and fees for veterans, but he wants to save those for his 3-year-old daughter to use someday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
He later enrolled in what’s now Cal State L.A. under the G.I.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Hegseth’s rhetoric is so alarming that it sometimes eclipses how he also can come across like an eight-year-old boy inventing dialogue for the villain in his G.I.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
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
With sudden inspiration, Gerald shouted, “Hey Joe, we got a torch!” as he and G.I.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
“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
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
A GI’s fiancee resents his marriage of convenience to a buddy’s English girlfriend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
Once in a while the GI's would get binoculars on them but they couldn't see any more details.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
In Robert Capa’s photograph of GIs on the USS Samuel Chase just before the D-Day landings, soldiers play craps with French banknotes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In theory, the law was “colorblind,” offering the same educational support to Black GIs as to white GIs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 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
D’Aquino’s defense: She had been slyly subverting the propaganda machine the whole time, entertaining Americans with facetious language no one could take seriously and introducing upbeat American music the GIs actually loved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
The GIs were spread on other planes and me and Peewee talked a lieutenant into putting us both on a flight to Fort Ord, in California.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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