top sergeant
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of top sergeant
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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His gravel-voiced oratory beats at the unwary with the brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Los Angeles, Policemen B. G. Smith and A. J. Wycoff were not un pleasantly surprised when a motorist who had just hit a pedestrian turned out to be their old top sergeant.
From Time Magazine Archive
It used to be that a top sergeant made two or three times as much as the lowest ranks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Probably last week's biggest loser was the Aussies' jut-jawed Captain Harry Hopman, who has been attacked for run ning his team like a combination top sergeant and boarding-school headmaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sergeant Simpson, who had been bumped up to top sergeant, was more or less leading the whole platoon.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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