sarge

American

[sahrj] / sɑrdʒ /

noun

Informal.

sergeant.

sarge British

/ sɑːdʒ /

noun

informal sergeant: used esp as a term of address

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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

Look a yere, sarge, yer oughter take a brace.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various

Yeah—" "Well, I'll go in, sarge, and see what's what.

From Criminal Negligence by Freas, Kelly

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