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devil-dog
noun
a member of the US Marine Corps US, 1918- He spotted the joker which would have wiped out the Marine Corps in the administration Defense reorganization measure and tied the bill up until the Devil Dogs were assured of being more than a mere “police force.” — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 162, 1951
- “Nothing,” crowed The New York Times, “could stop our gallant Devil Dogs.” That was not entirely true. — William Manchester, Goodbye, Darkness, p. 25, 1979
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