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shavetails

shavetails is the plural of shavetail.

Meaning of shavetail

Noun

shavetail (plural shavetails)

  1. (US) An inexperienced person, especially a newly-commissioned military officer.
    • Yass. I never got above the rank of shavetail. We were the dogfaces who gave ’em hell at Chateau Thierry.1962, Joseph Commings, “The X Street Murders”, in The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, published 2006

Questions about shavetails

What is shavetails the plural of?
Shavetails is the plural of shavetail.

Words near shavetails in the dictionary

  1. shavers
  2. shaves
  3. shaves up
  4. shavest
  5. shavetail
  6. shavetails
  7. shaveth
  8. Shavian
  9. Shavian alphabet
  10. Shaviana
  11. Shavianism

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