top sergeant

American  

noun

Military Slang.

1. a first sergeant.

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Etymology

Origin of top sergeant

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

A Special Forces captain and his top sergeant filed a rebuttal entirely blaming the accident on mistakes made by the B-1B crew.

From Washington Times

Sergeant Simpson, who had been bumped up to top sergeant, was more or less leading the whole platoon.

From Literature

Just as I was going out the top sergeant came in to return a book.

From Project Gutenberg

“What do you make of it all?” dazedly queried the captain of Top Sergeant Mahan when Cash had been 82 taken to the trench hospital to have his shoulder dressed.

From Project Gutenberg

And he had it on the authority of Top Sergeant Mahan himself that this part of France was not within the legal jurisdiction of West Virginia—the only region, as far as Cash actually knew, where men are put in prison for their misdeeds.

From Project Gutenberg