civvies
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“I’ve been in the army 14 years and I chose to join. These guys are all civvies … and we are investing everything we can because we know they are going to need it.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
Perry, now 57, is in civvies – T-shirt and zip-up jacket and jeans and straggly hair.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2017
At the Bataclan five months earlier, when I had met him, he had been relaxing with a drink, in his "civvies".
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2017
Hams put on his civvies, boarded his plane and returned to his wife and life in Minnesota.
From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016
But here, in a library and in his civvies, he wasn’t so frightening, was some-how ... denatured.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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