sarge
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sarge
By shortening and respelling
Example Sentences
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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
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
Yeah—" "Well, I'll go in, sarge, and see what's what.
From Criminal Negligence by Freas, Kelly
"The sarge is a scrapper—few like him in 'ours' when he turns himself loose," supplemented Slosson.
From Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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