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n. (context rugby union English) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
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Garryowen, also known as Garyowen, Garry Owen and Gary Owens, is an Irish tune for a quickstep dance. It was selected as a marching tune for British, Canadian, and American military formations, most notably Gen. George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry. The name "Garry Owen" has also been used for US forward military installations during wartime, and for a small town in Montana near the Custer battlefield.
During the Vietnam War, "Garryowen" was used by the 1st Cav as a password, much like Lollapalooza was used in World War II. While traversing the thick vegetation of the jungle, searching out enemy soldiers and approaching sounds of other human activity, one would cautiously yell out,"Garryowen"; the response, "Garryowen" (in clear English), indicated, "Friendlies in the area". Also, if at night during perimeter watch, when everyone but the guard was asleep, a soldier ventured beyond the ground area where he was sleeping to relieve himself, upon his return he would advance very slowly while whispering "Garryowen" several times as he attempted to return to his bedding, so as not to be mistaken as an intruder. Today, when encountering a veteran of the 1st Cav, greeting them with "Garryowen" would be like saluting a fellow soldier.
Garryowen may refer to:
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Garryowen, Limerick, Ireland, a suburb of the Irish city
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Garryowen Football Club, a Limerick rugby union club
- Garryowen (rugby) or up and under, a rugby union tactic
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Garryowen Football Club, a Limerick rugby union club
- Garryowen, Iowa, United States
- Garryowen, Montana, United States
- "Garryowen" (air), an Irish quickstep tune
- Garryowen (film), a 1920 British film
- Garry Owen or the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment
- Edmund Finn or Garryowen (1819–98), Irish-Australian writer
Garryowen is a 1920 British silent sports film directed by George Pearson and starring Fred Groves, Hugh E. Wright and Moyna Macgill. It was based on a novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. It concerns an impoverished Irish gentleman who tries to rescue his family from ruin by running his horse Garryowen at the Epsom Derby.
Usage examples of "garryowen".
Barney Kiernan's and there, sure enough, was the citizen up in the corner having a great confab with himself and that bloody mangy mongrel, Garryowen, and he waiting for what the sky would drop in the way of drink.
Her griddlecakes done to a goldenbrown hue and queen Ann's pudding of delightful creaminess had won golden opinions from all because she had a lucky hand also for lighting a fire, dredge in the fine selfraising flour and always stir in the same direction, then cream the milk and sugar and whisk well the white of eggs though she didn't like the eating part when there were any people that made her shy and often she wondered why you couldn't eat something poetical like violets or roses and they would have a beautifully appointed drawingroom with pictures and engravings and the photograph of grandpapa Giltrap's lovely dog Garryowen that almost talked it was so human and chintz covers for the chairs and that silver toastrack in Clery's summer jumble sales like they have in rich houses.