Wild Geese

British  

noun

1. the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries

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Wild Geese

As young cops, Graves and his friends called themselves the Wild Geese.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2015

Promoted to detectives, the Wild Geese begin by degrees to lose their idealism, and by middle age they have devolved into a straggling band of vengeance seekers.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 9, 2015

Director Andrew V McLaglen, who was best known for Westerns and action films including The Wild Geese and McLintock!, has died aged 94.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2014

There were roles in the TV series Smiley's People and war dramas such as Who Dares Wins and Wild Geese II, generally as a baddie.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2010

Off the Wild Geese Islands he met what he had for days been dreading, the first September north-wester, and was driven ashore.

From The Whelps of the Wolf by Marsh, George P.