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- noun Plural form of
leatherneck .
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Examples
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He said he was inspired to join the Corps by two uncles who were leathernecks — one killed in action, the other wounded — and a need for some grounding in his young adult life, the self-proclaimed high school valedictorian said in a recent telephone interview.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Short on instrument flight time and carrier experience one marine went to war with one shipboard landing in his logbook, the leathernecks nonetheless took the inevitable losses as part of the steep learning curve inherent to tailhook aviation.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Short on instrument flight time and carrier experience one marine went to war with one shipboard landing in his logbook, the leathernecks nonetheless took the inevitable losses as part of the steep learning curve inherent to tailhook aviation.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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According to one wild story, a squad of leathernecks with bristling bayonets—and Butler in command—crashed through the door of a bootleg warehouse, where an inebriated group of city fathers was being entertained by naked chorus girls.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
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Pendleton is home for the First MEF, which will provide the bulk of the 16,000-person contingent of leathernecks that will soon embark for Somalia.
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The bravery of the United States Marine Corps in these wars led to the line ‘to the shores of Tripoli’ in the Marine hymn and they would ever after be known as ‘leathernecks’ for the leather collars of their uniforms that prevented their heads from being chopped off by Muslim scimitars when boarding their ships.
The Last Patriot Brad Thor 2008
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Whether you call them gyrenes, jarheads, leathernecks, devildogs, husband/wife, son/daughter or boyfriend/girlfriend, they are devastatingly good looking in their dress blues, no?
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The leathernecks are now finding, however, that the desert can be as deadly and confusing as the jungle.
The Vietnam Question 2007
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The unfavorable ratio of women to men can leave leathernecks with little to do on the weekends.
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Why is it that these ex-leathernecks seem to be the angriest about what happened at Haditha?
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