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ground-pounder
noun
a member of the infantry US, 1942
Coined in World War 2, and used in every war since.- In Vietnam, he goes by an assortment of names – the Grunt, Boonie Rat, Line Dog, Ground Pounder, Hill Humper, or Jarhead. — David Reed, Up Front in Vietnam, p. 3, 1967
- — Current Slang, p. 16, Fall 1967
- “Lose pilots in combat” was a groundpounder’s euphemism for “We won’t need pilots anymore.” — Walter Boyne and Steven Thompson, The Wild Blue, p. 413, 1986
- [U]nlike so many of his fellow ground pounders, numbers had a personal meaning for him ever since they had lost Tom Gomez. — Richard Herman, The Warbirds, p. 351, 1989
- Some “ground pounders” wearing “chocolate chip cookie cammies” even talk of an “Adopt-a-Pilot” campaign and cheer when the jets roar overhead. — Houston Chronicle, p. 15, 24 January 1991
- I’m beginning to feel like a groundpounder. Sure will feel good to feel that old prop pulling you along again. — Calvin L. Christman et al., Lost in the Victory, p. 62, 1998
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