Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Vietnam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old law, distraint; distress.
- noun Preterit of
nim . - noun A Middle English contraction of ne am, am not.
- noun An abbreviation of
North America , or North American.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Am not.
- imp. of
nim .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun
Vietnam , especially (in the US) the Vietnam War
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Examples
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[188] From the account which follows it will be seen that the term Namáz expresses what we term a 'Service.'
The Faith of Islam Edward Sell
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Hey Del, my dad was a Ranger in "Nam", what were you?
I am a glutton for hunting and war stories. Here is your chance to tell one or two. 2009
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Hey Del, my dad was a Ranger in "Nam", what were you?
I am a glutton for hunting and war stories. Here is your chance to tell one or two. 2009
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The Army rediscovered a trick we used in 'Nam' called "baiting," where you leave ammunition and pieces of explosive devices out and shoot whoever takes them.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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The Army rediscovered a trick we used in 'Nam' called "baiting," where you leave ammunition and pieces of explosive devices out and shoot whoever takes them.
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Mar. 29th, 2010 07: 37 pm (UTC) lasted longer than Vietnam what dates are they using for that? we had "military advisors" in Nam since the late 50's and the Police Action didnt end until May 1975 ..
"It kicks like a sleep twitch..." greygirlbeast 2010
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I served two tours in Nam, in 66 I served aboard the USS Hull and in 68 was on a mine sweeper the MS Force. larry ray vogler prmjcm
warm welcome 2009
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I served two tours in Nam, in 66 I served aboard the USS Hull and in 68 was on a mine sweeper the MS Force. larry ray vogler prmjcm
warm welcome 2009
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My Army career went from 1970-90 (1 tour in Nam) and nobody ever spit or did any of those things to me.
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My Army career went from 1970-90 (1 tour in Nam) and nobody ever spit or did any of those things to me.
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