| 释义 |
bird colonel; full-bird colonel
noun
in the US Army, a full colonel US, 1946
From the eagle insignia.- This bald-headed, wrinkle-necked, full-bird colonel from the Officer’s Candidate School stood at the tag end[.] — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 145, 1977
- A bird colonel, commanding a brigade of the 4th Infantry Division. — Michael Kerr, Dispatches, p. 178, 1977
- One fine day this full-bird colonel pulled up in a deuce-and-a-half and volunteered a bunch of us. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 130, 1986
- Had NCO’s all around his desk / And a full Bird Colonel in the leanin’ rest. — Sandee Shaffer Johnson, Cadences, p. 66, 1986
- He [Oliver North] is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps, although his chances of making bird colonel seem dim this week. — Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p. 184, 1988
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 22, 1991
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