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chickenhawk
noun- during a war, someone who supports the war but avoids military service themselves US
Virtually every member of the US government that supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq avoided active military service in Vietnam during their youth. - Vann had warned Komer that if he arrived with less authority and access, he would be eaten by the chicken hawks. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 656, 1988
- Calling Quayle “chicken hawk” or “yellow bird” is cruel and unfair, but I guess that’s politics. — Newsday (New York), p. 85, 2 September 1988
- What do you get when you cross a chicken and a hawk? A Quayle. — Maledicta, p. 256, 1988–1989
- Here’s a list of pro-war Republicans who had better things to do than serve in the military: Dick Cheney, Bill Frist, Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert, Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, George Will, and a couple of talk-show geeks I’ll call Rust Lambug and Shame Han[.] — Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee), p. 13A, 20 April 2003
- Limbaugh is a prime example of what is known as a Chicken Hawk–a noisy, preening master of the martial art of talking who, back when it was a question of getting anywhere near harm’s way for the sake of his country, discovered that he had (as Vice President Cheney once put it, explaining his own absence from the fray) “other priorities.” — New York, p. 39, 27 October 2003
- a mature homosexual man who seeks much younger men as sexual partners US, 1965
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 43, 1967
- Basically the Flamingo Isles was a dive for pimps, chicken hawks, and hookers. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 33, 1986
- [A]nd instead of a chicken hawk flagging him inside with a twenty-dollar bill, his old mother, wrapped in furs and flashing newly capped teeth, comes rushing out. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 9, 1987
- — Carsten Stroud, Close Pursuit, p. 270, 1987
- [W]e three go up there frequently, proud to still elicit, in our post-teen years, the lurid howls of chickenhawks as we pass on by. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 7, 1987
- The next day Jules was in several adult magazine and book shops in downtown San Diego looking for chickenhawk and pedophile publications. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 18, 1993
- — Gayness Explained, The FHM Little Book of Bloke, p. 142, June 2003
- by extension, a woman who seeks out young male lovers US
- “She’s a chickenhawk!” Natalie sneered. “These kids come and go hourly through her zoo.” — Joseph Wambaugh, The Black Marble, p. 306, 1978
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