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  • noun nautical, slang a midshipman

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Examples

  • Spend some time looking at which political figures (bloggers, activists, politicians) are leading in this "middie" category and you'll discover that, indeed, the Right is ahead.

    The Politics of Twitter Sifry, Micah L. 2009

  • Spend some time looking at which political figures (bloggers, activists, politicians) are leading in this "middie" category and you'll discover that, indeed, the Right is ahead.

    The Politics of Twitter 2009

  • Tom Fairlie, M'Hearty, one "middie," and bold Captain Butler, all good men and true; and the servant who waited at table was one to be trusted.

    As We Sweep Through The Deep Gordon Stables 1875

  • "I'm making a little 'middie', a drop waist dress for Mildred," said Cynda Galikin, costume designer for Stephens College's "Ah, Wilderness!" showing.

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles 2009

  • And to be clear the reason class standing should not be used as a gauge of "intelligence" is that every cadet and middie have to meet a very high bar for admission-Any cadet that gets in is intelligent.

    "The Libertarian Case for Palin." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Aly Wagner should've been put in attacking middie so she could create in the attacking third.

    USATODAY.com - Germany had USA's number 2003

  • He came back in the middie of the afternoon and laughed a rather half-hearted laugh at the excellent Mandy's comment upon his jaded appearance.

    Lodusky 1995

  • The big French middie who had tripped the lad stepped forward.

    The Boy Allies under Two Flags

  • "Aye, aye! we seen that before," put in his companion, a buttoned middie of eighteen, innocent of beard.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • Miss Sandus (she gave you her word for it) was seventy-four; -- and indeed (so are the generations linked), her father had been a middie with Nelson at Trafalgar, and a lieutenant aboard the

    The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

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  • Slang for midfielder in lacrosse; also spelled middy.

    May 26, 2009