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Rambo noun- a soldier with too much of a sense of drama and too little intelligence US
After the 1982 film starring Sylvester Stallone as an invincible if mentally unstable Vietnam veteran. - The name “Rambo” (a film version of an invincible Army veteran of Vietnam) is used derisively by soldiers for someone who is braver than he is intelligent. — Houston Chronicle, 20 March 1989
- The females often had to become surrogate mothers or big sisters out there in the patrol units at night to all those blue-suited Rambos who temporarily traded testosterone for teddy bears[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 49, 1990
- an intolerant prison officer who is prone to punishing inmates UK, 2002
From the 1982 film starring Sylvester Stallone as a military man who uses the most extreme measures to quell his opponents. In use in UK prisons in 2002. - heroin UK, 1998
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 207, 2002
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 284, 2003
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