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straight-leg
noun
an infantry soldier, unattached to a mechanised or airborne unit US, 1951- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 19, 1968
- The straight legs hate us guys in the mortars. — David Parks, GI Diary, p. 37, 1968
- — Current Slang, p. 11, Spring 1968
- The artillery dudes and straight-leg grunts and the gooks was doin’ it hand to hand. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 29, 1977
- “He said he was going up to the wardroom to talk to the straight-legs, Lieutenant,” Hardin said. Troops who were not jump-qualified and therefore wore their trousers unbloused at the ankles were called a number of things by the Rangers; “straight-legs” was the least insulting. — Alfred Coppel, The Burning Mountain, p. 37, 1983
- Airborne, “straight leg,” which is best? / AIRBORNE! AIRBORNE! YES! YES! YES! — Sandee Shaffer Johnson, Cadences, p. 91, 1986
- Without preamble, he said, “We have twelve ex-Rangers and a couple of straight legs so far.” — Alfred Coppel, Show Me A Hero, p. 78, 1987
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