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Definition of Shavetails
1. shavetail [n] - See also: shavetail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shavetails
Literary usage of Shavetails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buddy Ballads: Songs of the A.E.F. by Berton Braley, Braley, Berton (1919)
"The Captain wasn't expert in the art of killing babies, The shavetails and the
sergeants and the corporals and men Were not innoculated with the military ..."
2. Blown in by the Draft: Camp Yarns Collected at One of the Great National by Frazier Hunt (1918)
"... are insignias of army wisdom, while the gold bars of many shavetails are marks
of only enthusiasm and hope. Take for instance, the case of Dan Gregory. ..."
3. The Command is Forward: Tales of the A.E.F. Battlefields as They Appeared in by Alexander Woollcott (1919)
"I heard young shavetails going crazy right before me because while they were
carrying orders as to the placing of PC's and other eleventh-hour regimental ..."
4. Seventy-first New York in the World War by Robert Stewart Sutliffe (1922)
"Jim Hoffman and Van Holland, of M 71st and Marcus Kipp of the 2nd received their
commissions for shavetails and amid congratulations left us for their new ..."
5. The Tents of Trouble by Damon Runyon (1911)
"Don't mind th' song of them wot has gone by; Keep close ter cover but go ahead!
This ain't no fancy drill! Aim low! Fire fast, you shavetails! ..."
6. In Camp and Trench: Songs of the Fighting Forces by Berton Braley (1918)
"... of doing what shavetails bid, And I know I haven't the polish that fellows
like that will show, And I hold a high opinion of the brains of a West Point ..."
7. History of the 305th Field Artillery by Wadsworth Camp, Charles Wadsworth Camp (1919)
"After meeting a few of these erratic train loads the least confident of shavetails
could forecast his ordered garrison tasks with ease of mind. ..."
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