jarhead

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Recent Examples of jarhead Mike Ferazzi lived to ride his motorcycle with his brothers, members of the Jarheads, a group of bikers comprised of, well, jarheads, Marines. Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019 When jarhead coders wrote their own version of Doom II, putting players in landscapes that resembled the Iraqi desert and other likely theaters of battle, Vaughn played it day and night. Steve Silberman, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2002
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jarhead
Noun
  • The twin sightings are a positive sign, indicating the health of the park’s marine ecosystem, the release said.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Green Berets are training alongside Mexico’s elite marine infantry units in conventional and nonconventional combat techniques.
    Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The second teenager immediately raised the alarm, prompting KWS rangers and emergency teams to respond to the incident.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Ullyot was the acting assistant to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for public affairs until February, when Sean Parnell, a former U.S. Army airborne ranger and ex-Senate candidate, was selected as the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • All districts were open to riflemen and bowmen alike.
    Ray Alt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Shortly after, a procession of riflemen and a statue of the Virgin Mary are paraded from San Geronimo de Taos church in front of more than 1,000 onlookers.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But the 2019 clash, and an earlier 2016 raid by Indian commandos across the Line of Control after a militant attack on one of their Jammu and Kashmir headquarters, demonstrated that retaliatory strikes need not escalate to nuclear exchange.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Commando (1987) is about a strangely hilarious killing machine who dispatches dozens of less talented commandos to hell to rescue his daughter, played by sitcom star Alyssa Milano.
    John DeVore, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Desperate to work with his idol, the ruthless corporate raider Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas who won Best Actor), Fox manages to get his attention by providing insider information.
    True Tamplin, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect San Francisco from Confederate raiders.
    Louise McLoughlin, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Dmytro, a 35-year-old infantryman with a concussion, was evacuated to the 33rd Mechanized Brigade’s aid point one recent night.
    Olha Konovalova, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • In his forties and with bad knees, Butcher was not cut out to be an infantryman.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In this massive operation, however, Allied commanders became uncertain of the location of the doughboys of the Lost Battalion, who soon fell under attack from both enemy German artillery, as well as friendly fire from the Americans.
    Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Look at the recent backlash against pop singer Róisín Murphy, who is about as threatening a figure as the Pillsbury doughboy.
    Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Hessler served in the U.S. Army as a field artilleryman for six years, retiring as a staff sergeant before serving two years as a patrol officer for the Baltimore City Police, followed by a lateral transfer to Carroll in March of 2021.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • During the 1930s and '40s, what was left of Indianola was turned into a major training base for thousands of artillerymen.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024

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“Jarhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jarhead. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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