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dogface

An infantry soldier in the US Army, especially during World War II. Send some dogfaces in there to ambush that enemy fort. Was Grandpa really a dogface in World War II? Wow, having to fight on foot sounds so dangerous! Look, I'm a Marine—I don't the work of dogfaces.
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dogface

n. an infantry soldier. (World War II. Also a term of address.) Get those dogfaces over here on the double.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Critique: Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Fall In, Fall Out: The Dogface Years" is a compellingly candid, informed and informative personal history that is a very highly recommended addition to community library American Biography collections.
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Perhaps the producers of Big Brother could steal the idea to lift their flagging fortunes, though I doubt the level of debate could match the current intellectual banter between those erudite heavyweights Lesbian Lisa and glamourpuss Sophie "Dogface" Reade.
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II--when I was alchemized From bookish student to infantry dogface.
positions and see what dogface GIs were having for breakfast.
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Dogface spent his spring soldiering and came to rust.
"If there is one thing a Dogface loves, it is artillery--his own!"--Audie Murphy
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