jarhead

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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
  • There’s just a handful of men and women worldwide who innately grasp what makes a luxury marine adventure, well, truly luxurious.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In an Indo-Pacific conflict, modern gliders could deliver supplies nightly to marines in remote locations, much as wooden gliders sustained Allied paratroopers in Normandy.
    Maximilian K. Bremer, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Check with a local ranger for special warnings.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Rader Lane, the ranger, said researchers had found that the elk might be crowding into the village because the Coconino Rim just south of there, where we were headed next, had a particularly high concentration of mountain lions.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dave Brubeck, already an accomplished jazz pianist, serving in a military band at a Riverside, California, base, was reassigned, trained, then shipped overseas as a replacement infantry rifleman.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Those services can include playing taps and providing riflemen.
    Jordan Rusche, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • One of the officers, a special-forces commando who discussed the operation on condition of anonymity, recalls lying in the pitch-dark belly of a river barge alongside dozens of his comrades, all of them armed to the hilt, eyeing one another through night-vision goggles.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Sitting on a waterproof Vibram commando sole, the upper of the shoe is crafted in suede in Fracap’s headquarters in Puglia, Italy.
    Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Its namesake, cattleman Oliver Loving, was shot by a band of raiders during a cattle drive in 1866, and died of shock a few days later after a doctor didn’t amputate his gangrenous arm.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • All of them have been broken into by raiders over the centuries, their walls smashed or lids prised off despite once being locked shut with metal clasps.
    Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Overburdened infantrymen who had been on the front lines for months, some since the Normandy landings, remained there for weeks and months on end.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Decker was an Army infantryman from March 2013 to July 2021, according to FOX 13.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • She’s rescued by a detachment of American doughboys, led by the aforementioned Pvt.
    Ben H. Winters, New York Times, 26 July 2025
  • 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
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
  • Tim Walz enlisted as an artilleryman in the Nebraska Army National Guard in 1981, the day after his 17th birthday.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 Aug. 2024

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“Jarhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jarhead. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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