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zoomie noun- a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy US
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 245, 1991
- in drag racing cars, an exhaust pipe that curves upward directing some of the exhaust gases to heat the tires US
- One modification is still in use today on ever dragster–the shorty, stubby “zoomie” headers unit which points hot gases directly at the rear tires. — Ross Olney, Kings of the Drag Stripe, p. 176, 1968
- a crew member of a military jet aircraft US
A term used by the infantry and navy. - — American Speech, p. 38, February 1948: “Talking under water: speech in submarines”
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 27, 1968
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 182, 1990
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