chair-borne

chair·borne

[chair-bawrn, -bohrn]
adjective
(of military, especially Air force, personnel) having a desk job rather than a field or combat assignment.

Origin:
1940–45; blend of chair and airborne

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chairborne (ˈtʃɛəˌbɔːn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
informal having an administrative or desk job rather than a more active one

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Chair-borne is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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