Idioms

ground-pounder

ground-pounder

slang An infantry soldier. Was Grandpa really a ground-pounder in World War II? It's going to be dangerous, fighting on foot, but we need some ground-pounders to ambush that enemy fort. No, Uncle Harry wasn't a ground-pounder when he served in the Korean War—he was a Marine and fired mortar shells.
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ground-pounder

n. an infantry soldier. (Military.) If you join the army, it means a lot of your life spent as a ground-pounder.
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References in periodicals archive
A self-proclaimed "ground-pounder," MacIvor is known for falling and throwing her body around, skills she mastered as a modern dancer (she's worked with Twyla Tharp and Tere O'Connor) at Hunter College in New York City.
Herm has always been the treestand bowhunter, and I've been the "ground-pounder." Lately, Herm has had some trouble climbing trees, and I can't scamper up and down the hills.
Two cinematic potboilers, Korean Patrol and A Yank in Korea, sugarcoated the ground combat while waving Old Glory but The Steel Helmet pushed aside the usual patriotic bromides and focused on the unsightly truths every ground-pounder encountered.
And finally, for the Freezin' Season: I'm a hardcore ground-pounder, and learned to take better care of my feet than my face.
And from that you know very well that I am a confirmed "ground-pounder," a person who likes to keep her feet firmly planted on good old Mother Earth.
Although I've been called a "ground-pounder," I've always responded, "Indians don't fly well, whether in a treestand or an airplane.
The idea of "gun control" was foreign to most American ground-pounders, but they saw and heard of the atrocities committed by the Nazis against ordinary people for the crime of keeping a gun handy--proving to those unsophisticated grunts just how badly those guns were needed.
Jimmy's boss told him to shut up; it was the ground-pounders' problem.
AWF1 Pangia and I were excited about being the first qualified ground-pounders to perform a low-power engine turn after a modification.
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