| 单词 | light colonel |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslight colonel light colonel n. U.S. Military slang a lieutenant colonel. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > colonel colonel1548 lieutenant-colonel1616 col1707 chicken colonel1942 bird colonel1945 light colonel1950 bird1955 1950 Neosho (Missouri) Daily Democrat 25 Aug. 2/2 His superiors did not trust him, with the result that although he commanded an artillery regiment, he was still a ‘light colonel’ while all the regimental commanders in his organization were full colonels. 2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 194 Somewhere, at regiment or division, or even higher, a major and a light colonel are busy crunching the numbers, and a six-man scout team or a two-man sniper team from a marine infantry battalion have been deemed worth losing. < as lemmas |
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