Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation galvanized iron
- abbreviation gastrointestinal
- abbreviation general issue
- abbreviation Government Issue
- noun An enlisted person in or a veteran of any of the US armed forces, especially a person enlisted in the army.
- adjective Relating to or characteristic of an enlisted person.
- adjective Conforming to or in accordance with US military regulations or procedures.
- adjective Issued by an official US military supply department.
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- noun The
ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code forGibraltar . - adjective military Given to a soldier by the army (as an item), rather than brought from home; or used by the army (as a procedure), and different from its
civilian counterpart. - noun A member of the U.S. military.
- noun One who is
demanding andstrict , in the manner of a stereotypical member of the military. - verb military To
clean aggressively. - initialism
Gastrointestinal . - initialism
Galvanized iron . - initialism US
Government issue or General Infantry. - abbreviation astronomy Common misspelling of
Gl ., the prefix forGliese catalog of nearby stars
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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GI is short for government issue, a descriptive term for supplies distributed by the government.
GI Joe 2002
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I imagine that you have seen the little old houses, what they call GI houses, little square things.
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Veterans from the nonprofit Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, which aggressively lobbied for the bill, are back on Capitol Hill pushing for what they call a GI Bill fix.
News for WSAV 2009
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I always wanted to be Scarlet in GI Joe and my favorite of all time is still Voltron.
The Barbie movie: Plastic fantastic or dollpocalypse now? | EW.com 2009
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Only the humans in GI JOE are far better sculpts than these.
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The technologist will ask why the upper GI is being performed and explain the procedure to both you and your child.
Upper GI Series 2010
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Throw in GI Joe and Transformers, and a trip to the used comics store, and I can understand why one of my closets has 10 long boxes of comics just sitting there.
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They formed what was known as the GI Movement and ran veterans for all city and county offices on an antigambling reform ticket.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Funny song on YouTube listing things younger than McCain - GI Joes, Barbie Dolls, the Air Force, shopping malls ...
Younger than McCain frankwu 2008
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They formed what was known as the GI Movement and ran veterans for all city and county offices on an antigambling reform ticket.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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