jarhead

slang

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Recent Examples of jarhead Mike Ferazzi lived to ride his motorcycle with his brothers, members of the Jarheads, a group of bikers comprised of, well, jarheads, Marines. Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019 When jarhead coders wrote their own version of Doom II, putting players in landscapes that resembled the Iraqi desert and other likely theaters of battle, Vaughn played it day and night. Steve Silberman, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2002
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jarhead
Noun
  • The company states that movable bridges, such as drawbridges, can cause delays for marine or other traffic when the structures are moved in high heat.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • Sometimes the mission has been fuzzy or concealed: not long after the White House deployed seven hundred marines to Los Angeles, purportedly to help quell the protests against immigration raids, photos spread of them detaining a protester.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Park rangers found his vehicle parked at Watson Lake State Wildlife Area, northwest of Fort Collins near Bellvue.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
  • Park rangers then undertook a five-day search for the reptile, sharing numerous updates about their quest via Facebook.
    Clare Fisher, People.com, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • All districts were open to riflemen and bowmen alike.
    Ray Alt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Shortly after, a procession of riflemen and a statue of the Virgin Mary are paraded from San Geronimo de Taos church in front of more than 1,000 onlookers.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The idea was that a group of military commandos would break quarantine and try to get to the place where the virus had originated, in order to find a cure.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
  • Visions of Israeli commandos training Malaitan farmers swarmed my imagination.
    Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Since the 1990s, the corporate raider has owned a beachfront home off Lily Pond Lane, one of the most expensive streets in East Hampton.
    Andrew Rice, Curbed, 26 June 2025
  • The area had long been a refuge for the Nuba, many of whom are descendants of people who were pushed out of other parts of Sudan by Arab raiders.
    Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The slick series, populated with young up-and-comer actors led by Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan and Anthony Boyle, follows men from the 100th Bomber Group, who flew dangerous raids into enemy territory and were far more likely than infantrymen to be killed or missing in action.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • British infantrymen were among the finest soldiers in the world, but most of these troops were green; only the 47th Regiment of Foot had seen extensive combat, at Lexington and Bunker Hill, among other clashes.
    / CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • In this massive operation, however, Allied commanders became uncertain of the location of the doughboys of the Lost Battalion, who soon fell under attack from both enemy German artillery, as well as friendly fire from the Americans.
    Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Look at the recent backlash against pop singer Róisín Murphy, who is about as threatening a figure as the Pillsbury doughboy.
    Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Hessler served in the U.S. Army as a field artilleryman for six years, retiring as a staff sergeant before serving two years as a patrol officer for the Baltimore City Police, followed by a lateral transfer to Carroll in March of 2021.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • During the 1930s and '40s, what was left of Indianola was turned into a major training base for thousands of artillerymen.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024

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“Jarhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jarhead. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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