sarge
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sarge
By shortening and respelling
Example Sentences
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They realize only too well that without the sarge the preparation of the B-52 for combat will be seriously delayed, and without the B-52 ...
From Time Magazine Archive
To a man and woman, the soldiers are types--the hard-bitten sarge, the college kid, the greenhorn, the choirboy--whom the pilot introduces with the inexcusably hackneyed device of having them explain their colorful nicknames.
From Time Magazine Archive
I told the sarge that we were merely "flower children."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Oh, yes," carelessly, "but the sarge quieted him—just purty near soothed him to sleep before he got through, you know—it's one of his ways!"—his glance lifted solemnly.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry
Skinny tried to git in by telling us his voice was trained; the top sarge sed he guessed it was trained all-rite, all-rite, but he must of trained it selling strawberries.
From Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie by Stone, Barney
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