gyrene

American  

[jahy-reen, jahy-reen] / ˈdʒaɪ rin, dʒaɪˈrin /

noun

Slang.

1. a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Etymology

Origin of gyrene

1920–25; GI + (ma)rine with altered spelling

Example Sentences

The boy originally out of Foreman, Ark., is no longer a boy but a man who became a Gyrene on his 18th birthday and who by now has answered his country’s call around the world starting with Midway Island at the close of the Second World War.

From Washington Times

So far he has one, called Gyrene Burger, in the college town of Knoxville, Tenn. “If it gets to 100 units, that could make me $3 million to $4 million a year,” he says.

From BusinessWeek

Sergeant Highway was transformed from an Army paratrooper into a gyrene gunnery sergeant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mitchell Paige, no cinema gyrene, was a quietly savvy guy.

From Time Magazine Archive

It opens with the beginnings of the Maccabean struggle, and traces the history, with increasing detail, to the destruction of Jerusalem and the suppression of the Jewish revolt at Gyrene, two or three years before the book was written.

From Project Gutenberg