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shake and bake
noun- a non-commissioned officer fresh out of training US
- The sergeant in charge of rear security was a “shake ’n’ bake,” like all the squad leaders in the platoon. — Shelby L. Stanton, The Rise and Fall of an American Army, p. 314, 1985
- Sergeants who came from the NCO school were also known as “shake-and-bakes,” after a television commercial for a product that promised something equally, improbably instantaneous, like fried chicken from the oven. — Lucian K. Truscott, Army Blue, p. 22, 1989
- Little did he know there were worse such monikers–within the Army the instant noncoms quickly and forever became known as “shake and bakes.” — David H. Hackworth, About Face, p. 594, 1989
- A twenty-year-old Shake ’n’ Bake sergeant by the name of Larry Closson had just arrived with a new batch of cherries. — Larry Chambers, Recondo, p. 87, 1992
- The shake ’n’ bakes did their best to fill the gap, though many felt that they were in over their heads. — Keith Nolan, Ripcord, p. 103, 2000
- a portable fire shelter used by workers fighting forest fires US
- — American Speech, pp. 205–209, Summer 1991: “The language of smokejumping–again”
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