chicken colonel

noun Military Slang.

a full colonel, as distinguished from a lieutenant colonel.

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Also called bird colonel.

Origin:
1945–50, Americanism

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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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