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light colonel
noun
a lieutenant colonel US, 1954- While the old gent napped away the afternoons upstairs in the White House, a light colonel of Marines had run a secret government in the basement[.] — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Glory, p. 139, 1988
- It would mean that they have let poor Ollie, a lowly former light colonel, be a fall guy. — Chicago Tribune, p. C3, 26 April 1989
- Don Sheehan of Tewksbury is 71, a retired Air Force light colonel who served from 1956–1979. — Lowell (Massachusetts) Sun, 27 September 2003
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