Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Confederate soldier in the American Civil War.
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- proper noun obsolete, informal A
Confederate soldier in theAmerican Civil War . - proper noun by extension The Confederacy in general
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
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Examples
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Riding a winner, Horton kept the momentum going with the Civil War-themed "Johnny Reb," and "Sink the Bismarck," based on a World War II naval battle.
Beachwood Reporter 2008
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Riding a winner, Horton kept the momentum going with the Civil War-themed "Johnny Reb," and "Sink the Bismarck," based on a World War II naval battle.
Beachwood Reporter 2008
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Riding a winner, Horton kept the momentum going with the Civil War-themed "Johnny Reb," and "Sink the Bismarck," based on a World War II naval battle.
Beachwood Reporter 2008
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Riding a winner, Horton kept the momentum going with the Civil War-themed "Johnny Reb," and "Sink the Bismarck," based on a World War II naval battle.
Beachwood Reporter 2008
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Not many can beat the wonderful offerings at Porky's on Redondo and 10th or Johnny Reb's at 4663 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach.
Charles Karel Bouley: Pigs Flying Off the Grill Aug. 18-21 in Orange County Charles Karel Bouley 2011
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Not many can beat the wonderful offerings at Porky's on Redondo and 10th or Johnny Reb's at 4663 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach.
Charles Karel Bouley: Pigs Flying Off the Grill Aug. 18-21 in Orange County Charles Karel Bouley 2011
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Not many can beat the wonderful offerings at Porky's on Redondo and 10th or Johnny Reb's at 4663 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach.
Charles Karel Bouley: Pigs Flying Off the Grill Aug. 18-21 in Orange County Charles Karel Bouley 2011
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Not many can beat the wonderful offerings at Porky's on Redondo and 10th or Johnny Reb's at 4663 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach.
Charles Karel Bouley: Pigs Flying Off the Grill Aug. 18-21 in Orange County Charles Karel Bouley 2011
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At about the same time I wore out 3 or 4 consecutive pairs of Johnny Reb tall black bike boots.
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For the time and the place they weren't bad-not to compare with Johnny Reb cavalry or Cardigan's Lights or Scarlett's Heavies or the Union horse in the Civil War, or Sikhs or Punjabis either, but then these were all soldiers at war, most of the time, and the 7th weren't.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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