Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the US Marine Corps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A marine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The sordid friar bird of Australia (
Tropidorhynchus sordidus ). - noun slang A member of the United States Marine Corps; a United States Marine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the United States
Marines , so called because of a distinctive high leather collar of certain uniforms they formerly wore.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the United States Marine Corps
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term "leatherneck" has become a term of admiring comment.
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Certainly, the five stories collected in this posthumous volume (Styron died in 2006) sidestep the "leatherneck" cliches that surround the Corps.
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The term "leatherneck" has become a term of admiring comment.
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At Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, 1st Lt. Josh Diddams said officials were not immediately able to confirm Weber's statement that he was a leatherneck during the period he claims.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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At Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, 1st Lt. Josh Diddams said officials were not immediately able to confirm Weber's statement that he was a leatherneck during the period he claims.
NEWS NOVEMBER 2009 2010
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Although Buddle served two years of active duty in the Army, he was never a leatherneck and never earned a commission despite wearing the uniform of a Marine captain.
Reggie Buddle 2010
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Buddle in 2004 at his home, where he presided over a wedding for a leatherneck who had just finished boot camp.
Reggie Buddle 2010
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Camp leatherneck is apparently Obama's macho challenge to the Afghans to 'Bring it on' but, like George W Bush's false challenge to the Iraqi freedom fighters ~ it will failbecause theAmerican public will not willingly support another economically debilitating occupation, with its rising body count, and the Afghan nation will rise up en masse against the America invaders.
Camp Leatherneck Rises In Afghanistan's Desert Of Death 2009
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A formfitting dress uniform can make a leatherneck look like a peacock.
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Like the leatherneck general who described the 1st Marine Division's bloody retreat from Chosin Reservoir in Korea as "advancing in a different direction," Carville announced that the campaign would take the offensive.
Testing Ground 2008
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