jarhead

jarhead

slang A member of the United States Marine Corps. Primarily heard in US. The bar was filled with zoomies and jarheads off duty for the long weekend. My father was a jarhead, as was his father, and his father before him, so it was in my blood to become one as well.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

jarhead

n. a U.S. Marine. (Attributed to the shape of a cap and to the haircut.) Do you want to spend a few years as a gravel-pounder or a jarhead? You get free clothes with both jobs.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • chip
  • chips
  • up on (one's) ear
  • piss-cutter
  • piss cutter
  • pisscutter
  • one of the boys
  • one of the lads
  • be one of the boys
  • be one of the lads
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, by Anthony Swofford, Scribner: New York, March 2003, 260 pages, ISBN: 0743235355, $24 (hardcover).
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles