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world
noun
▶ the world
during the war in Vietnam, back home, the US, life outside the military US- “Don’t tell me, let me guess—You’re th’ guy who wuz due t’ rotate back t’ th’ world prior to us losin’ your orders.” — Michael Hodgson, With Sgt. Mike in Vietnam, p. 65, 1970
- — Current Slang, p. 19, Summer 1970
- “Henry, what’s gonna happen when we go back to the world?” —William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 53, 1972
- Before he joined the Corps, Andrews had a completely safe job in the World. — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 31, 1976
- “I just can’t hack it back in the World,” he said. — Michael Herr, Dispatches, p. 5, 1977
- Don’t remember a lot about my rehabilitation, but I was sent back to the World before the fall of Saigon. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- Forty-two days, man, and a wakeup and I’m a gone motherfucker. Back to de World! — Platoon, 1986
- “Back in the World,” they used to say to each other in “Nam, ... ‘when I get back out in the World ... I’m gon’ do this or that,” away from the jungle and the monsoons and everything. — Odie Hawkins, Amazing Grace, p. 140, 1993
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