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bashibazouk

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bash⋅i-ba⋅zouk

[bash-ee-buh-zook]
–noun
(formerly) one of a class of irregular mounted troops in the Turkish military service.

Origin:
1850–55; < Turk başι-bozuk civilian, irregular, orig., leaderless, not attached (to a regular military unit), lit., (one) whose head (is) broken
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