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bird colonel

bird colonel

noun U.S. Military Slang.

Origin:
1945–50
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Bird colonel is always a great word to know.
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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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bird colonel
 
n
military slang (US) a full colonel in the US Army
 
[from the eagle insignia of rank]

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