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- initialism military slang
Fucking New Guy
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Examples
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The name is a play on an obscene military acronym FNG F***ing New Guy, used to describe someone new to a military unit.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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The name is a play on an obscene military acronym FNG F***ing New Guy, used to describe someone new to a military unit.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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The name is a play on an obscene military acronym FNG F***ing New Guy, used to describe someone new to a military unit.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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The name is a play on an obscene military acronym FNG F***ing New Guy, used to describe someone new to a military unit.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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Minutes before Del Campo was to start the 10-day journey, he saw a man with an "FNG" pin.
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"FNG" is a take on the military term that describes new guys with a more vulgar adjective.
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The whole squad behind him stopped, everyone except for Jojo and the FNG named Cunningham who was in lock step step behind the Gunny.
I will be gone James Lloyd Davis 2011
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Within a year after that, I was told I was just another FNG, cherry then, B-G-'grunt'.
CRU Inquiry Report submissions EliRabett 2010
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Clinton and his wife were particularly sick of the arrogance and condescending tones about how the FNG was going to pass health care in the first year.
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Later his gains knowledge from a series of military and political figures where he goes through the cycle of FNG rejection, to grudging respect, to eventual team membership.
Sometimes old school just seems old Tripp 2009
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Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military acronym that means “Fucking New Guy”.
Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang Eva Corlett 2024
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