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smokey bear; Smokey the bear
noun- a drill sergeant in the US Army US
From the similarity between the hats worn by Drill Instructors and Smokey. - — Time, p. 31, 10 December 1965
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 16, 1968
- I want to be a Drill Instructor / I want to earn that Smokey Bear. — Sandee Johnson, Cadences: The Jody Call Book, No. 2, p. 26, 1986
- a police officer; the police US, 1975
Citizens’ band radio slang; from Smokey Bear (aka Smokey the Bear), a caricatured black bear, from Capitan, New Mexico, used since 1950 to promote forest fire prevention. The symbolic bear wears a hat similar to that worn by US highway patrol officers and state troopers. Also used to designate police in various forms: “smokey beaver” (a policewoman), “smokey convention” (two or more police cars), “smokey on four legs” (mounted police), “smokey with a camera” (police using speed detection equipment), “smokey with ears” (police with radio), etc. Yeah, them smokeys ’s thick as bugs on a bumper / They even had a bear in the air[.] — C.W. McCall, Convoy, 1976 - — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, April 1977
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 159, 1981
- If there was a Smokey out there tonight, you couldn’t prove it by me. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 106, 1981
- a military aircraft used for dropping magnesium-based flares to illuminate the ground at night US
- Meanwhile, with a “Smokey the Bear” flareship hovering over the battlefield, dropping flares and lighting the ground like day, Whalen’s artillerymen fought like lions for their lives[.] — David Hackworth and Julie Sherman, About Face, p. 537, 1989
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 180, 1990
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