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zoomie

Syllables: zoom·ie/ˈzuːmi/

zoomie noun: a graduate of, or student at, the United States Air Force Academy, USAFA. Also the attributive form of zoomies.

Noun

zoomie (plural zoomies)

  1. (slang) A graduate of, or student at, the United States Air Force Academy, USAFA.
    • Most of the zoomies in the audience are clean-shaven office poges who never go into the field.1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 39
    • Then it's purely a coincidence that the last two zoomies to arrive here got assigned to Vung Tau, while every ROTC grad in the last month has been sent to god-awful Army camps, right?2006, Rocky Raab, Baggy Zero Four, page 9

Also used as

zoomie is also the attributive form of zoomies.

Examples of zoomie in a sentence

  • The BX was huge, and the quality of the stuff was better than that of the Fort McClellan PX even though zoomies made the same amount of money that we did.2007, John Sheppard, Tales of the Peacetime Army:
  • A zipper head (an air force zoomie with his hair parted in the middle) walked up to me.2008, Rob Krott, Save the Last Bullet for Yourself, page 89:

Forms of zoomie

pluralzoomies

Origin of zoomie

From zoom + -ie.

Questions about zoomie

What does zoomie mean?
Zoomie means a graduate of, or student at, the United States Air Force Academy, USAFA.
How do you use zoomie in a sentence?
The BX was huge, and the quality of the stuff was better than that of the Fort McClellan PX even though zoomies made the same amount of money that we did.
What part of speech is zoomie?
Zoomie is a noun.
How do you pronounce zoomie?
Zoomie is pronounced /ˈzuːmi/.
What is the plural of zoomie?
The plural of zoomie is zoomies.

Words near zoomie in the dictionary

  1. zoomer perm
  2. zoomer perms
  3. zoomers
  4. zoometric
  5. zoometry
  6. zoomie
  7. zoomier
  8. zoomies
  9. zoomiest
  10. zoomimetic
  11. zoomimic

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