| 单词 | beast barracks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBeast Barracks Beast Barracks n. U.S. Services' slang (at the U.S. Military and Air Force Academies) the initial period of basic training for newly entered cadets. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > type of drill or training sham fight1598 field exercise1616 martinet1677 field evolutions1789 foot drill1795 goose-step1806 war-game1828 rope drill1833 field training1836 repetition training1859 skeleton drill1876 drill-down1889 Beast Barracks1896 basic training1898 monkey motion1909 assault course1915 TEWT1942 workup1971 Taceval1977 1878 West Point Tic Tacs Gloss. 129/1 Beast Barracks, Quarters occupied by new Cadets.] 1896 Howitzer (Corps of Cadets U.S. Mil. Acad.) 60 ‘Beast Barracks’ lasted only two weeks, but to us homesick plebes..it seemed as though we had been in West Point very nearly all our lives. 1904 Howitzer (U.S. Mil. Acad.) 94 We went at beast-barracks and bucked the Cadet Store. 1990 D. Peterson Dress Gray ix. 222 Thank goodness that Beast Barracks works; it weeds out the weakest of the new recruits immediately. 2012 Times 3 Aug. 2/3 Duckworth took her Grit Scale to the West Point military academy, where the first year is rightly called ‘Beast Barracks’ for its high drop-out rate. < as lemmas |
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