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Doughboys
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
dough·boy       (dō'boi')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A piece of bread dough that is rolled thin and fried in deep fat.
  2. An American infantryman in World War I.


[Sense 2, perhaps from the large buttons on American uniforms of the 1860s, said to resemble doughboys (sense 1).]

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
doughboys

United States infantry soldiers who served in World War I.


[Chapter:] American History since 1865


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