nashos

Noun

nasho (plural nashos)

1. (Australia, informal, uncountable) Military national service, conscription.
   • National Service was meant to turn boys into men and make the Yellow Peril think twice about moving south. It was universally known as Nasho – a typically Australian diminutive.[…]But the most brutal fact about Nasho was the initial seventy-seven-day period of basic training, most of which took...1981, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, unnumbered page
2. (Australia, countable, informal) A person doing military national service.
   • The white Rhodie ‘nashos’ (another derogatory term for national servicemen—this time from the Brit regulars), however, brought to the battalion a level of education that was previously unknown.2007, Alexandre Binda, Chris Cocks, The Saints: The Rhodesian Light Infantry, page 176