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  • noun US A first year student at the United States Air Force Academy; a cadet freshman

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Examples

  • Entering the Cadet Area at the Academy as a "doolie" in 2003, Curtis was asked from both naive and intolerant Christian cadets why the Jews killed their savior.

    Matthew Harwood: No Dominion: The Dangerous Fight Against Christian Supremacists in the Armed Forces 2010

  • In 1973, as a "doolie" (a freshman at the Air Force Academy) he punched an officer who accused him of fabricating anti-Semitic threats he'd received.

    Harper's Magazine Jeff Sharlet 2009

  • If his rhetoric is elevated, his sounding line nevertheless goes deep: Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairful dyte/Suld correspond and be equivalent:/Richt sa it was quhen I began to wryte/This tragedie . . .

    News at Eleven: There is a unique steadiness about Rus Bowden 2009

  • If his rhetoric is elevated, his sounding line nevertheless goes deep: Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairful dyte/Suld correspond and be equivalent:/Richt sa it was quhen I began to wryte/This tragedie . . .

    Archive 2009-06-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Reinertsen is a pompous ass who ragged on him terribly in his doolie year—the label for the freshman hell-in-residence period at Doolittle Hall.

    Orbit John J. Nance 2006

  • Reinertsen is a pompous ass who ragged on him terribly in his doolie year—the label for the freshman hell-in-residence period at Doolittle Hall.

    Orbit John J. Nance 2006

  • The user (ME) could pre-set all the button doolie-majiggers (Gentle - Fluffy Loo).

    haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2006

  • One more, and he'd be a no-shit fighter ace, something he dreamed about all the way back to his doolie year at Colorado Springs.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

  • But waefu '(woeful) and doolie (sadly) do I whisper to ye,

    Lias Laddie 1998

  • "Major, if you ever pull something like that again I'll bust your ass back to doolie!"

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

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