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shavetail
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Shavetail was an experimental American rocket developed during the 1950s. Used to evaluate the rapidly developing technology of rocketry, eleven Shavetail rockets were fired during 1959.
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n. (context US English) An inexperienced person, especially a newly-commissioned military officer
Usage examples of shavetail.
Christ, I had forgotten that, you were a crummy shavetail then, but you learned fast enough.
He looked like the kind of man who ate shavetail lieutenants for breakfast, and picked his teeth with their commanders.
His first unit assignment as a brand new shavetail lieutenant had been to the First Infantry Division two days before it crossed the Line of Departure and entered Iraq in the first Gulf War.
Any shavetail could have seen there were no votes there, no industrial power there, absolutely no political sock.
The pilot had been at the military academy with Lij, and Jennifer was treated to some shavetail stories that kept her laughing on the trip home.
It Culpepper, whose father and grandfather had both started out in G Co --th Infantry as shavetails and risen to command the Company and then the Battalion and then the Regiment, was not happy.
Like other newbies, the shavetails had died in droves before really having a chance to learn the ropes.
I mean, shavetails get promoted to first lieutenant automatically if they keep their noses clean.