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deployment goggles

deployment goggles noun: a tendency to regard people as more sexually attractive than one usually would, as a result of being deployed to a region where there are few potential partners.

Noun

deployment goggles pl (plural only)

  1. (humorous, plural, plural-only, slang) A tendency to regard people as more sexually attractive than one usually would, as a result of being deployed to a region where there are few potential partners.
    • Camp Cupcake was somewhere where the grunts would make a pit stop. They'd see you and you were the most beautiful thing in the world. Back home you may not be much, but out there they've got deployment goggles—you look good, so you're in chow hall and it's kind of uncomfortable because you feel...2010, Laura Browder, Sascha Pflaeging, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 137

Questions about deployment goggles

What does deployment goggles mean?
Deployment goggles means a tendency to regard people as more sexually attractive than one usually would, as a result of being deployed to a region where there are few potential partners.
What part of speech is deployment goggles?
Deployment goggles is a noun.

Words near deployment goggles in the dictionary

  1. deployees
  2. deployer
  3. deployers
  4. deploying
  5. deployment
  6. deployment goggles
  7. deployments
  8. deploys
  9. deplumate
  10. deplumated
  11. deplumates

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