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dogfaces

NOUN
infantry
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Hearing the lingo of South Viet Nam, the dogfaces, gyrenes and swabbies of World War II would hardly know Dodge City from the Boonies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Everybody was for those famous wartime dogfaces Willie and Joe, but for a good many peacetime years they seemed to be against their creator; see PRESS, In War & Peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the dogfaces, whose cause it espoused in the ceaseless conflict with brass, it ranked in favor not far below Paris leaves and letters from home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nobody was enthusiastic about it, but few wanted to be dogfaces.

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Not to mention all those dogfaces from Flatbush who seldom shot anything more dangerous than dice, and when anybody said "tanks" respectfully replied "yuh welcome."

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