olive drab
Use Olive drab in a sentenceolive drab
noun, plural olive drabs for 3.
1.
a deep olive color.
2.
woolen cloth of this color, used especially for U.S. Army uniforms.
3.
a military uniform made from this cloth.
Origin:
1895–1900
1895–1900
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| olive drab | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a dull but fairly strong greyish-olive colour |
| b. (as adjective): an olive-drab jacket | |
| 2. | OD cloth or clothes in this colour, esp the uniform of the US Army |
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Olive drab
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. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Example sentences
As she has been known to say, olive drab runs in her veins.
Wear drab colors such as khaki, camouflage or olive drab.
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